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Cobia Dreaming
03/01/11 07:17 PM
Last year all of the fishermen who have a grain of salt in their blood could not stop talking about the epic cobia bite that unfolded before our very eyes, up and down the beach from Emerald Isle to a little north of Cape Lookout. Massive pods of menhaden dotted the waters near shore; many days the black schools of shad looked like rain drops on the hood of your pickup truck, they were so great in number. Jim Strickland, the pro photographer, snapped this pic of a hooked cobia, while a couple of others lurked deeper in the water column, seeing what all the commotion was about.
What got every angler fired up was the fact that swimming through, gobbling up these menhaden, were cobia. And lots of them!
As a charter boat fisherman commented to me, even Ray Charles could catch one of these muscle bound brutes. Hey, I even caught a few my self. Pete Zook, a third generation charter captain, said to me one day that he had never seen such a massive cobia bite on the Crystal Coast. Now that says something of the magnitude of the bite. In the pic below, Bill Morris, and yours truly reel in one of many cobia. Jim Strickland rested up between cobia catches to take this photo.
So the question is, now that temperatures are rising, will they come back? Will the bite be as epic this year as it was in 2010. And when will they show, if it turns out that way.
One of the most impressive things to me was the whale sightings. They would come and gobble up the menhaden just like the cobia, along with the blue fish too. Send your thoughts to [email protected]
What got every angler fired up was the fact that swimming through, gobbling up these menhaden, were cobia. And lots of them!
As a charter boat fisherman commented to me, even Ray Charles could catch one of these muscle bound brutes. Hey, I even caught a few my self. Pete Zook, a third generation charter captain, said to me one day that he had never seen such a massive cobia bite on the Crystal Coast. Now that says something of the magnitude of the bite. In the pic below, Bill Morris, and yours truly reel in one of many cobia. Jim Strickland rested up between cobia catches to take this photo.
So the question is, now that temperatures are rising, will they come back? Will the bite be as epic this year as it was in 2010. And when will they show, if it turns out that way.
One of the most impressive things to me was the whale sightings. They would come and gobble up the menhaden just like the cobia, along with the blue fish too. Send your thoughts to [email protected]