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SUBJECT: # 39090: Oregon Inlet Cobia -- when, where and how?
Submitted by Gerry, BFHP from VIRGINIA on 4/11/04 8:22:00 PM
I'm going to be down at Rodanthe towards the end of May. Is this a good time for cobia? I've seen them in the inlet before but never have been able to get them to hit. Anyone got any good techniques for getting them interested in a bait.Gerry is the creator and editor of the Bass Fishing Home Page.
He frequently fishs the Virginia's Occoquan Resevoir and Potomac River in a TR-21 made possible by Triton, Southern Kentucky Marine, and Hamby's Protector Beaching Bumper .
- 4/13/04 12:16:00 AM
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Dunk79 (68.44.136.197) from NEW JERSEY says Cobe's..
Gerry, I've never screwed with them in NC, but in the Key's your best bet is always live bait. Didn't seem to matter what it was as long as it was alive. We use to have them in the chum slick all the time and they would chase bucktails and swimming lures, but wouldn't nail them. Any fish in the grunt size and under they will jump right on. Any kind of little bottom fish you can hook will work.One time when I was running one of the headboats out of Holiday Isle we were on the hook chumming the reef. We had about dozen of them cruising around the boat. Most were barely legal size(34" I think), except for two in the 40-50lb range. Anyway were trying everything we had to get one on when I said to the mate just off the top of my head...it would be easier just free gaff them and I when back up to the wheel house not realizing Harry the mate took me literly... Next thing I know I hear people yelling and girls screaching. I run the back of the upper deck and look down and there's Harry trying to wrestle a 45lb totaly green Cobia on the deck. The idiot free gaffed this cobia and flipped him into the boat with 45 people onboard. There is no crazier fish than a Cobe when you gaff him, let alone hit him green and flip him up on the deck. We had other problems with Harry... Harry did the same thing with 125lb Tiger Shark one time with 50 people on the boat.
- 4/13/04 9:19:00 AM
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Gene from GEORGIA says A nickname for cobia, is crab eaters,
that, and your striper eels would work well, and bait fish as Dunk said.
- 4/13/04 5:03:00 PM
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Graham Willis (208.33.68.152) from NORTH CAROLINA says Cobia
My Dad started fishing for Cobia in 1950, three years before I was born. He had accidentally caught one on a Mirrolure. They were called Cabio, (Portugese for Crabeater) We blissfully caught them for twenty years w/ no competition. We've caught hundreds mostly on dead Threadfins, Menhadden and spots. Live bait works well when the tide slackens. Eels and crabs work well also but are a pain to use.As far as gaffing them, don't until they are tired(belly-up). The best way to tire them is to loosen your drag and hit them on the nose w/ your gaff- that really wears them out. It's hard to beat fried Cobia.
- 4/13/04 10:51:00 PM
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Capt. Rick Caton, Custom Sound Charters from NORTH CAROLINA says Hit them on the nose with a gaff
Ha ,ha, ha that's a good one. No you do not loosen the drag,and no you do not hit them on the nose with a gaff. Gerry in May the water temps are cooler and they do not bite as well as when found in warmer water. Live eels work well,...but I've thrown them and had them turned down when temps are chilly. Get them to the boat as quickly as possible and I hit them right at or behind the dorsal with the gaff and smack them on the head with a rubber mallet. I myself use a 13 foot gaff and don't mess around,.......gaff is hitched with twine from the hook to the end of the handle,.....once you pop it to them you do not stop pulling till they are in the boat. 2 and 3 oz. bucktails tipped with squid work well also
- 4/14/04 8:19:00 PM
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Miles Offshore (68.230.193.210) from VIRGINIA says cobes
Capn Rick IS the man when it comes to those carolina cobes!!!
- 4/15/04 8:44:00 AM
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Gray (152.20.161.51) from NORTH CAROLINA says Hey Cpt. Rick
Hey old Ricky whats going on? This is Gray Swain from Oriental. Just saw your post up here and figured I would say hello. Tight Lines and keep them boys straight on their fishin.
- 4/18/04 3:01:00 PM
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Capt. Rick Caton, Custom Sound Charters from NORTH CAROLINA says Howdy Gray,
Catching any Drum yet??? I'll be there in Sept.
- 4/18/04 9:42:00 PM
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Hawkeye (68.49.131.163) from VIRGINIA says Cobia
That time of year your best bet would be Hatteras inlet to diamond shoals for cobia. Mid may last year a guy caught one 113lbs. Many good cobia bites down there the last 2 weeks of may in the inlet and on the shoal. You can chum and eel the inlet or ride the beach/shoal site fishing. Need a bluebird day for the later.Hawkeye
