jaxgtr

Cobia is fantastic. I caught a 76 pounder while we were going after blue fish during a mullet run one year off the Juno Ball in South Florida in the late 70's. It was a massive mullet ball that was being attacked by a few small hammerheads, spinner sharks, lemon sharks, bluefish, amberjacks, tarpon, and various seabirds. They were getting decimated. We tossed a line out in the mayhem and somehow hooked into a Cobia, but we originally thought it was one of the sharks until we got it close to the boat. As I was reeling it in, it felt like it spit the hook, but there was still a lot of weight, so I kept reeling. What happened was a shark bit off about 8 inches of the tail, and estimated that it would have come in right about 82- 85 lbs. Right after we got it on the boat, a massive tiger shark appeared and he was probably looking for the rest of it.