Fat Cobia

I recently purchased myself a new (to me) boat.  I have instantly fallin’ in love! It is a 22′ Cape Craft Bay with 150 Yamaha. It also has a wireless trolling motor which now, I don’t think I could ever fish without.   Matt, Ken, and myself decided to run it out of the inlet on Wednesday to see if we could get in on the HOT cobia action.  We saw our first pair of cobia about 5 minutes after I brought it off plane.  The conditions on the ocean were absolutely as good as it gets with light and variable winds, a small rolling swell, and crystal clear skies.   Matt is up on the front and he spots a cow about 50 yards away. With a perfect cast the fish turns on the bucktail and its game on!  We get it to the boat and into the box. The first cobia on the new boat is a nice 60 pounder, and a great way to get the day started.  While fighting that fish we had another one approx the same size swim right up to the boat. It turned on the lures but then turned away and down to the depths never to be seen again. Probably not the worst thing to happen as we needed to focus on getting the one we already had hooked into the box.  We continue to see more fish throughout the morning sometimes 3 or 4 at a time.  We caught a total of 7 cobia and we kept 5.  Boat performed great and I can’t wait to get back out there!

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