The Atlantic does it again!!! 4/9/11

 | By Ja on 4/9/2011 9:37:00 PM | Views (330)
Capt. Scott Lum.  Doug and Andria had never caught a cobia before so that's what are main targeted specie was for the day.  I had my other good friend Chesnee mate for me today to help keep and eye out for the cobia.  We headed south and cast netted our bait and kept heading south fishing the bait pods on our way down.  The first fish of the day was a six foot black tip shark, that took Doug for a good run.  two hours went by and still no cobia.  I started heading back north when Chesnee saw something strange out in the distance about a mile away.  It looked like white caps from a boat wake, but there was no boats around us at the time so we started heading towards it when what we thought was a wave from a boat was actually a pod of two hundred tarpon rolling and blasting on pod of minnows.  Everyone was super excited.  We baited all the hooks with live pogies and threw out the lines.  It wasn't long till Doug hooked into about a 100 pounder that took him for an hour fight.  Once we landed Doug's fish I noticed something strange looking trailing behind the tarpon, it was cobia! Doug, Andria and myself casted at them hooking into two of them.  Doug had about a 30 pounder on and Andria had on a 15 pounder.  Doug tired his fish out first but the hook pulled when we were about to gaff it.  Andria fought her's for another ten minutes when I was able to gaff her's into the boat, she was really excited.  We started heading back north to port when we came across another cobia that was stubborn as all get and wouldn't bite.  At the end of our trip Doug and Andria went home with some nice cobia for the dinner table.  If you are interested in booking a trip with me you can reach me at finandflycharters@gmail.com, www.finandflycharters.com or call (321) 652-5903.

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Capt. Jamie Glasner
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