Lovey80
17-08-2011, 11:13 PM
Took my little brother out today for the first time in a long while. He mentioned on the way out of Mooloolaba that he had never caught a Cobia so after throwing back the plague of 32-34cm Pearlies we headed for Caloundra wide to see if we could get him a Cobe.
First drift over a known spot I am on to a very large Cobia that gets boated at bang on 1.5m and needed us both to lift into the boat.
Second drift is started about 30m from the mark this time and the parachute is deployed to slow the drift. At this point a pro turns up close and realises that we are drifting the same wreck and moves off a few hundred metres and seemed to be jigging livies. No hits on the second drift and we turn back and begin the same drift.
Third drift again we set it about 30m up current from the mark, deploy the chute and drop the baits down again. Before we could get our baits on the bottom, a very big flybridge Sharkcat comes in from behind at full noise. He slows down as he passes 10m to our starboard side with about a dozen punters on board with rods in hand and baits ready to drop. The skipper from Odyssey Charters cuts around to our bow about 20m to our front (right on the mark) and tells his punters to drop their baits! Small Cobia are coming up left right and centre as I let my little cat Drift within 10m of the large shark cat. My Brother hooks a little 800mm Cobe as they move just in time out of our drift for him to boat it. It looked like they had no intention of leaving any time soon so very pissed off I leave for another location with the fish biting.
I ended up boating another Cobia at 900mm at the other spot before we had to head in. With 3 very nice fish in the esky I guess I shouldn't be complaining. I do know which charter boat I will be telling friends to boycott in the future with that sort of attitude.
Cheers
Chris
First drift over a known spot I am on to a very large Cobia that gets boated at bang on 1.5m and needed us both to lift into the boat.
Second drift is started about 30m from the mark this time and the parachute is deployed to slow the drift. At this point a pro turns up close and realises that we are drifting the same wreck and moves off a few hundred metres and seemed to be jigging livies. No hits on the second drift and we turn back and begin the same drift.
Third drift again we set it about 30m up current from the mark, deploy the chute and drop the baits down again. Before we could get our baits on the bottom, a very big flybridge Sharkcat comes in from behind at full noise. He slows down as he passes 10m to our starboard side with about a dozen punters on board with rods in hand and baits ready to drop. The skipper from Odyssey Charters cuts around to our bow about 20m to our front (right on the mark) and tells his punters to drop their baits! Small Cobia are coming up left right and centre as I let my little cat Drift within 10m of the large shark cat. My Brother hooks a little 800mm Cobe as they move just in time out of our drift for him to boat it. It looked like they had no intention of leaving any time soon so very pissed off I leave for another location with the fish biting.
I ended up boating another Cobia at 900mm at the other spot before we had to head in. With 3 very nice fish in the esky I guess I shouldn't be complaining. I do know which charter boat I will be telling friends to boycott in the future with that sort of attitude.
Cheers
Chris