Well, the Healthy Grin is down. The same engine that was just re-built. Carter Machinery and Dare Marina are jumping on it so hopefully the down-time will be short. The planned marlin trip with VIMS scientists had to be postponed.
We jumped on another Albemarle and went cobia fishing instead. We went on Charles Southall’s Special Kate. Capt. Jorj Head, (757) 262-9004, called us and told us where he was seeing some fish. We went over there and ran into a school of red drum. We also saw 7 cobia. We got casts on none of them. We did a little better with the reds catching a couple. Sometimes, they would chase our jigs. Other times, they would just sound. Overall, we ran into red drum schools 4 times before the thunderstorms chased us home. The last time I talked to Jorj, his charter had caught 2 cobia and a red drum. I do not know what his final tally was. I do know his charter the day before caught 4 cobia and the charter before that one, caught 13 cobia. Most of the action is in the bay along the Baltimore Channel.
Dr. Ken Neill, III
IGFA Representative
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