Seemed everything was hungry and biting yesterday. While fishing for pins out in 9' depths, we had two small sharks take pins and I caught a nice sized mackerel on my sabiki rig!
Get out to our spot and in short order Sharkman has a big cobe on. No question it's a keeper. We celebrate a minute or two and get back to fishing. We then catch one short grouper a piece. By this time it's getting hotter than hades and we're weighing a run inshore to cool off and check out some shallow spots.
Just as we're talking about heading in, WHAM!!! Something big hits a pinfish I'm fishing near the bottom and heads for structure. Can tell by the fight I've got something big. After about a 10 minute fight I get the fish to run up the water column enough to see it's a big cobe.
We then play the "bring the cobe to the boat" game, getting it within arms length only to have it make huge runs away from the boat seeking structure. Didn't count how many times but best guess is 15 to 20 times. Each time it made a run it didn't appear to have lost an ounce of energy. It's so hot and I'm fighting the cobe so hard, I'm sweating bullets. DANG, I mean it was HOT!!! It was giving us so much heck near the boat and was so big and powerful I was worried that we were going to lose him. Thankfully we didn't. Got him in the boat only to discover that the hook was set in one of his crab crusher pads. Seconds after putting him in the box the hook fell out without me having to remove it!
We did capture a bit of the fight on camera.
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After landing the two keeper cobia and the temps reaching 100 we decided maybe some lighter tackle fishing was in order!
Made a few runs to shallower spots and spotted multiple blue runner & mackerel feeding frenzies. Caught fish after fish from each pod. After we had our fill of fun, ran to the house to do some cleaning.Final tally - kept two fish and had 60 pounds of meat. Sharkman's cobe weighed in at 25 and mine weighed 35.
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