Mid-July Cobe Trip, Surprising Find, & Some Bass Action
Posted: August 8th, 2017, 1:45 pm
Life's gotten so busy I haven't had time to fish much nor post reports. Made what I think was only my 3rd salt trip of 2017 mid-July. Fellow forum member Ontiltttttt pushed the trip a bit as he's entering 2nd year of med-school and he had a rare day free.
Went out with a mission of finding cobia and we were successful on that front. Ontiltttttt was first putting a fish in the boat, though... well... he actually grabbed a rod out of my hands to do so!
We didn't exactly have a red hot day, though we found plenty of bait around with some of it being harassed. Managed to pick a spanish or two off the bait schools and lost a king, but then resumed our hunt for more cobes and it was hours before we got the next hit.
I wasn't as generous with the rod the 2nd go round and ultimately boated a 40" cobe. Pretty rare I name the cobes I catch, but did so with this one. Named it "Chief Osceola."
Why Chief Osceola? Well, turns out it was hiding a limestone point in its gut! Guess it scooped a piece of limestone off the bottom trying to eat a crab or some other goody.
Fast forward a week and Ontiltttttt was bending my arm for one more saltwater trip and I told him I didn't think the weather was going to cooperate and I really didn't have time to go coastal again with about 20 acres of fields to cut. He settled on an offer for evening bass fishing, and, well... yet again an old comment he made about my being the man to make his fishing dreams come true seemed to be pretty spot on. 
Will say this about Ontiltttttt, you don't have to wonder whether he truly enjoys fishing or not. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aweDIjnlzRM[/video]
Bass weighed just a few ounces shy of 7 pounds. Huge head on her but as the picture shows her belly was relatively lean when we caught her.
Also used the trip to do just a bit of pond management. Started catching some smaller fish this year and decided to start thinning the herd just a bit... put the big girl back but did keep some of the smaller fish we caught. Ontiltttttt was pretty happy about that. 
Never one to let good fish go to waste, Ontiltttttt sent a picture to me soon as he got home giving a big thumbs up on the fried bass.
Went out with a mission of finding cobia and we were successful on that front. Ontiltttttt was first putting a fish in the boat, though... well... he actually grabbed a rod out of my hands to do so!
I wasn't as generous with the rod the 2nd go round and ultimately boated a 40" cobe. Pretty rare I name the cobes I catch, but did so with this one. Named it "Chief Osceola."
Will say this about Ontiltttttt, you don't have to wonder whether he truly enjoys fishing or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aweDIjnlzRM[/video]
Bass weighed just a few ounces shy of 7 pounds. Huge head on her but as the picture shows her belly was relatively lean when we caught her.
