Let's talk cobia

Where are you fishing?

Them, lemon fish and ling are some of my favorite fish to eat.

I haven't got to do it much the last few years. I'll be back for cobia and snapper season. Thinking about riding to destin to try and find some AJs.

There's the three barges about a mile and a half off the beach, and some scattered debris around it. Always good for some snapper, but on the opening weekend it looks like a parking lot. Never had a problem catching fish there, even with the big boats. There's a lot of structure in the bay you can catch keeper snapper and grouper in, but you've got to find it or pay $200+ for the coordinates. Guys would Let you bang their wife before they give up their bay snapper spots

Yeah, the guys on pff gave me a link to all the public stuff in pcola, to where I can drag and drop it into my lowrance, just haven't done it. I have some private numbers in Destin, that's why I make the drive. But it's not structure, just a live bottom. Never anyone on top of you and you don't get hung on anything. Less than a mile out too, which is nice.

cobialinglemonfish

You forgot crabeater.

It's about to be rocking. Sheepshead should fire up any day. I could care less about inshore most of the time, but love catching some big spring sheepies. Are you fishing the GCKFA tourney?

It's an individual tournament but a lot of guys fish together.

That's because it's not standard sheepshead fishing. When they're really running, it's the big females and the bites aren't subtle. It's basically snapper fishing with fiddler crabs.

ahhh, the Mississippi Chum line in Penscacola. Wise choice.



First get a few bags of frozen chum and maybe a bottle of pogy oil. do not spill of oil. also a good idea to chop up some frozen pogies every thirty minutes. U can not chum too much. I used to buy the oil in 55 gallon drums from zapata.

You want your slick to cross over a sand bar etc. I would usually be in 7-10 foot of water off a sandbar.

Now the bait. If you have room one or two live croakers or catfish under a float 70-100 yards back. Two bottom rigs with live bait. Next a free line croaker or big squid. Two spinning rigs always ready to go. One with live eel, and other with big squid and or jig. You can sub live eels and croakers out for any of the bag but dont put eels on bottom rigs with weights as they burrow into the sand.

Another key is the hooks, etc. I think the best choice is number 7 true turns. You can use circle hooks too but lemonfish are hard to hook so dont skip on the hooks. Use 40-60 pound flour with drags set at 20-30 pounds.

And here is final trick when they take a bait, count to 7 then set the hook.

Last thing they are very gaffe shy but sometimes will swim right to the boat hooked or not out of curiosity. If you gaffe a "green fish" and thrown him in the boat be ready for some damage.

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