Busier than a one legged man in an arse kicking contest so bit late posting this report.
Went out of Ecky on Labor Day and with super smooth waters ran offshore. With roughly a dozen cobes sighted the last trip out only a few weeks ago, I was excited that it would be another banner trip. Wasn't but DID keep the cobe streak alive!
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After only about 30 minutes fishing, we boated our only cobe of the day and tagged/released it. If my count isn't off this makes the 9th straight trip since mid-May that we've landed a cobe. The quick cobe bite had us expecting more, but despite having a ton of baited hooks out only managed to land a couple of macks and to winch a big nurse shark up. Most exciting event of the day wasn't a catch, but instead having an aggressive and large bull chase a big chug bug to the boat. This action was spread out over a LONG morning, so action was quite slow.
On the run back in, we did luckily find two big schools of eating macks and had our fun with them. After landing a couple on a spinning reel/silver spoon setup, I switched to fly rod and had them bump my fly at least 4 times but always between strips so that when I went to set, I was a fraction slow each time.
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The promise of a speeding mack on fly has me eager to get back on the water again.
And folks, something is way, WAYYYY wrong when 6 of the last 7 offshore reports are posted by me, someone truly just fishing midshore depths. We saw 5 other boats offshore, with 2 anchoring close enough to us we would have wizzed on their boats had we been better hydrated
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... me thinks some folks are holding back on sharing reports.
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