Cobia Mayhem off Port Canaveral 3/14/11

Had one of my repeat clients on board today in search of some cobia.  I called chesnee a close friend of mine to see if he could mate for me to help spot the cobia.  We set out of port canaveral around 10a.m. and headed 20 miles south of the port to start looking for free swimmers and rays.  It hadn't of been 30 minutes till we found a ray that had four cobia on it.  Gene, my client, casted a troy perez cobia jig at the ray hooking into about a 40 pound cobia.  Fighting the fish for only 5 minutes the cobia swam in front of the ray's path and one of the ray's wing cut through the line like it was butter.  We were all bummed but the trip wasn't over yet. 3hrs later we moved in closer to the beach to find cobia swimming on top of bait pods.  Gene casted the jig at the cobia hooking a 51 pounder that took him in a fight that lasted about 45 minutes.  As Gene was fighting his fish another cobia popped up next to the boat and my mate Chesnee casted at the fish hooking a 63 pounder. They landed both fish and both were exhausted after fighting them.  We started to head back to port and we came across another cobia on a bait pod, this one was only about 20lbs but he to went home for dinner.  At the end of our trip came picture time, here is a few photo's of our catch, I hope you enjoy them and if you would like to go catch these monstrous fish you can reach me at finandflycharters@gmail.com, www.finandflycharters.com or call (321) 652-5903.

Tight Lines
Capt. Jamie Glasner
Fin & Fly Charters