cobia off the lighthouse

[tallykenj]

Wow. Awesome. How deep?

[Rainman]

I'll take it from here Jimmy! I arrived at the lighthouse around 6. And Bigphisy and Galantnole had a nice livewell of baits ready for action. We headed back out to the same secret spot Jimmy mentioned earlier. Upon arrival these two clowns immediately grab jigs and start tossing, I'm still trying to locate structure and find a good place to anchor. We anchored for about fifteen minutes and decided to rreach or. Got setup real well the second time and deploed some chum! I pick up the Thunnis CI4 6000 and toss a free line out the back with the biggest pin in livewell. Only took about two minutes and I was hooked up!! Drag was smooth and screaming, so we tossed the anchor float over and chase this beast down. About 15 minutes of fighting and a couple missed gaff attempts and over comes a beautiful 40 inch cobia, or as Bigphishy was saying ,chobia! Hahaha.

After the excitement I got another pin out and went back to free lining. Same deal, about two or three minutes go by and I'm hooked up again! Decent fight but no match for the Thunnis. Here's a pic of my second chobia. This one went back as we now have three keepers in the cooler.

Went back for round three and was not dissapointed. This one slapped me in the face!

Had a fantastic couple hours of fishing and back at the lighthouse by 830. Had to drive the trailer to the fort as the was not enough water to get the boat out at the lighthouse...

[big bend gyrene]

Words for the wise... be a bit cautious sharing too much information on secret spots you have. Made that mistake a time or two, only to soon thereafter find heavy traffic beating me to said spots, and even the times I arrived first having other boats arrive at distant offshore spots using my bouy marker to allow them to anchor / drift back just a few yards off my stern... and even ask me if I was big bend gyrene on bigbendfishing.net, and some of the spots where I was found WEREN'T public numbers. There's a reason (make that plural "reasons") that ol' timers on the board often blur the background on their pictures / don't get too specific on offshore locations. Public number or not, you share too much info it sure will become a lot MORE public, and that goes for every day of the week too. Just sayin'. Congrats on the solid cobia report.

[homboyfsu]

Amen! about giving out too much information. By the way don't post a picture of your boat. I liked what Capt. Dave said get YOU a couple of maps and STUDY them. He did it and he didn't run down other boats and steal their spots from them. That's why they call this thing fishing.

[tallykenj]

I carry a water balloon slingshot and launch them from The Back Porch. Anybody that gets near me gets wet.

[zload]

Words for the wise... be a bit cautious sharing too much information on secret spots you have. Made that mistake a time or two, only to soon thereafter find heavy traffic beating me to said spots, and even the times I arrived first having other boats arrive at distant offshore spots using my bouy marker to allow them to anchor / drift back just a few yards off my stern... and even ask me if I was big bend gyrene on bigbendfishing.net, and some of the spots where I was found WEREN'T public numbers. There's a reason (make that plural "reasons") that ol' timers on the board often blur the background on their pictures / don't get too specific on offshore locations. Public number or not, you share too much info it sure will become a lot MORE public, and that goes for every day of the week too. Just sayin'. Congrats on the solid cobia report.

Dang I just about had those clouds geo-located via Google Earth with the NSA boat recognition add-in co-locating with all public numbers in the area. Guess I'll have to do it the hard way... By the way are any of these JT's holes?

[big bend gyrene]

By the way are any of these JT's holes?

4 miles or so out of St. Marks falls within the Gulf of Mexico, right? Yep, one of JT's claimed holes.

[big bend gyrene]

I carry a water balloon slingshot and launch them from The Back Porch. Anybody that gets near me gets wet.

Strangest thing I ever experienced had me spitting fire mad at first but then so confused anger turned to head scratching. Had stealthily poled for a quarter mile or so to a secret oyster bar somewhere between 100 yards to four miles or so offshore from the Econfina mouth (showing some of the younger guys how the embellishment should be done with that one ) when a guy BLAZES IN WIDE OPEN THROTTLE within inches of the bar that we're casting to it, shuts off his engine... and JUMPS IN. Memory serves he had either his wife or girlfriend with him and he kept coming up for breaths complaining about how he couldn't find what he had lost. Gave up at some point, jumped in, and motored off without shouting a single word of apology to us. If it was anybody on the board, might not want to admit it as I still can't help but wonder if a gold band was lost that might have been removed for all the wrong reasons...

[Salty Gator]

Words for the wise... be a bit cautious sharing too much information on secret spots you have. Made that mistake a time or two, only to soon thereafter find heavy traffic beating me to said spots, and even the times I arrived first having other boats arrive at distant offshore spots using my bouy marker to allow them to anchor / drift back just a few yards off my stern... and even ask me if I was big bend gyrene on bigbendfishing.net, and some of the spots where I was found WEREN'T public numbers. There's a reason (make that plural "reasons") that ol' timers on the board often blur the background on their pictures / don't get too specific on offshore locations. Public number or not, you share too much info it sure will become a lot MORE public, and that goes for every day of the week too. Just sayin'. Congrats on the solid cobia report.

Dang I just about had those clouds geo-located via Google Earth with the NSA boat recognition add-in co-locating with all public numbers in the area. Guess I'll have to do it the hard way... By the way are any of these JT's holes?

zload that's great.!!!
I bet it rhymes with bog dallard

[FishWithChris]

I wish it was as close as "bog dallard!" We did stop by there and motored around and even trolled a bit to no avail.. so we went elsewhere. How far from there? Well... Idk Somewhere between. 1 and 1 milllllion feet away! Lol. It was a helluva trip. BigPhishi and I, in between ol milto leaving and rainman getting there, headed up river to get some lunch at Riverside... for the first time in years the service and food was good... and their new tiki hut is pretty nice!

[fishinfool]

I spoke to Bigphishy today about a reel he needs worked on. He told me where the super secret spot is. I am taking bids.

[woopty]

Got this one at my super-duper secret spot Saturday...Yup, they're here...

[FishWithChris]

I knew that was your boat out there, woopty!!! Glad you got on them too!

[milto]

Couldn't figure out how to delete so here's a beer for everyone!

[milto]

Got this one at my super-duper secret spot Saturday...Yup, they're here...

Woopty, you forgot to color in the background! It looks like you caught this one from shore!!