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Waited till ~6:10am for the gate to open at the refuge entrance and was heading out of the channel at 6:30. We stopped just East of hte lighthouse for some bait catching and to try the trout. At 7:45 we headed south towards the St. Marks Reef cluster and motored around an early bird until we found just the right spot. About 15min after arrival our pinfish was taken by a nice cobia. I estimate through the 15 minute fight and seeing him about four times near the boat that he was 25-30lbs.. I didn't have any balloons so I used a torpedo cork and that is where the line broke . Never again. We made due with a full day of nice spanish and a couple of other species until the bite slowed after lunch. Here is the tally...

Keeper Trout - 2 - one on live shrimp one on Top dog
Short Trout - 5 all on live shrimp
Hardtails - a million
Skipjack - 1
Spanish - 22 keepers on top dog, Yozuri jerk, and most on live shrimp
Cobia - 1...oh wait a minute - 0 on a pinfish
Sharks - 1
Remora - 1


Randy and I trying to not look cool

Smaller Cobia from two weeks ago

Nice report and catch BBJ.....

WTG, BBJ

Nice catch! How deep were you when you met the cobe? And all the spanish??

Aucilla - The Cobia in the picture was caught at Peter's Rock...I believe he had been hiding under the boat for about 20 minutes before we got a good enough look at him to realize we should fish under there. The one we lost last Saturday was in 20ft at St. Marks Reef.