St. Marks, Cobia

Post by **rx fisher** » August 20th, 2004, 5:10 pm

Left the fort at 10:30am, with Deb, to catch the rising tide around the oyster bars.
Following Scotts advice in the paper, we chummed heavy with my special brew. The bull sharks were on us most of the day, so it must have been working.

Tangled into several big things with a couple of breakoffs, but we did come home with a couple of dinners. The rock bass kept us busy, but the real fun came with this cobia, just short of legal, but a lot of fun. While I was
bring him in our live line went singing. After boating the cobia, I fought a think a bull shark for about 20 minutes, till we lost him, sure got the
blood pumping.

Ended the day, 1 trout 20", flounder, 2 keeper rock bass and a lot of fun
Haven't been out in several weeks, sure felt good.

Post by **CSMarine** » August 21st, 2004, 7:55 am

Good report RX. Any Cobia hooked is a blast, even the short ones. Hard to find the big ones by now. Glad you did get supper though. How deep were you when you caught the Cobia. I think chumming, I'd hang in the eight foot plus water. You never know what will smell the chum line do you.

Post by **rx fisher** » August 21st, 2004, 9:09 am

That's my biggest so far, haven't got my legal,yet.
jig tipped with shrimp no CT, deep channel between two oyster bars on a risingtide, lots of chum. we were in about 12 feet at the time.

Those bull sharks will give you a thrill, there was 2 to 3 around most
of the time, just making big boils. They would follow the scent and
then turn right at the boat. between 6 and 8 feet long.

Post by **mjsigns** » August 22nd, 2004, 10:05 pm

Great Report Rx-

Next time use the flash if your camera has one!

MJ

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » August 23rd, 2004, 7:38 am

Good report RX.