Well, with obligations next weekend, I think we may have made our last snapper trip of the year this past Saturday, 6/22/13. Ran out of Rollover agian and pointed the Blazer Bay south. Seas were light and just enough breeze to make the summer day bearable. First stop was 45 miles out and we immediately hook up to a toad of a snapper that went 16lbs. After a few minutes we set eyes on a monster Cobia and he did a swim by twice with no intentions on eating anything we threw in front of him.
After putting a few snapper in the boat, the bite slowed and we moved around. Found a huge area of grass piled up in the Verm 161 area and did some trolling for dolphin and anything else. No luck so we stopped and tried fishing the area with jigs, but no luck. Made a few more stops and had a ton of sharks at most areas. On our way back in, made a stop at the platform holding the Cobia earlier that day. Sure enough he was still there and HUNGRY! Somehow, or by the blessing of the fish Gods this day, we hook up to the beast and he swims right to the boat after hooking him. As he passes the bow, I see another decent Cobia is with him and I have my step son feed him another swimming eel at 5' from the boat. That fish inhales it also and the fight is on with 2 Cobia at the same time. My wife was at the helm and got us backed down from the structure just as both fish sound and realize they were hooked. After 10 minutes, I sink the gaff in Griffin's fish and put it in the box. His firend Trey Broussard was on the rod hooked to the bigger of the two and did a fantastic job for a rookie big fish encounter. Trey followed everything I told him to do perfectly and ran around with the rod like a true expert. After 24 minutes of sweat, I buried the gaff in a Cobia beating my boat's previous big fish record that was only a week old. This big lemon hit the scale at 45.6 lbs and was a handful for the boy during the picture taking.
We finished snapper fishing and headed in after a long day on the water since the snapper bite was a little off for some reason. 3 miles from the beach, we encounter some large grass patches and do some drive by's looking for triple tail. Only saw 1, but he was a beast but never got a bite. Ended the day by hitting the cut into Rollover draggin bottom on the extremely low tide and almost didn't get back in. Glad we had a light boat that doesn't draw much water! Could have been a long night.
06-24-2013, 09:49 AM
Finished Strong Offshore
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