Back on the Cobia – Whay Moore Fun

Welcome back to fishing. It has been a long-time coming but I am glad to tell you I went fishing today with my friend Scott. We went cobia fishing, certainly one of my favorite times of year is the cobia start.

I had gotten all of the fishing supplies yesterday so we were ready to head out at first light. We stopped by our best Spot fish location and landed 3 of them for bait. We also had 8 eels, whole bunker for chunking, and chummed up bunker, along with Menhaden oil.

We ended the day with one cobia on board that measured 41″, legal size but very small so we let him go. We had a few others hooked but one ran under the boat and got tied up in the trim tabs and prop (in about 2 seconds) so we lost him and one other one that broke a 50 lb leader so the big one gets away yet again.

We got those 3 fish on live spot and eel. We caught two mullet while on anchor and used those when we finished out the spot but mullet did not get a bite. For location we were at Dameron marsh, basically where everyone else was and in about 30 ft of water. We fished most of the outing going tide and just a bit of the incoming.

When we left the dock it was mostly calm, maybe a foot or less. The weather otherwise was windy but nice. The waves got ridiculous so we left before lunch.

I did find a new tide chart program that I am liking. Tide Chart this particular link is for the area of the Great Wicomico light. I do like the way it works. It is a clean interface and not too busy which is a big plus. Check them out sometime.