Inshore Today

We headed out after breakfast and we were back in for dinner. It was a nice leisurely day trolling the beach. We trolled for kings from Rudee Inlet to Sandbridge and on out to the Santore. We stopped on the Santore and caught a few triggerfish. While trolling around, we saw some cobia and red drum so we into sight-fishing mode. We did not see anymore reds after we were ready to cast to them but we did see a good number of cobia. We ended up seeing 8 or so, hooking 3 and boating 2. While cruising around looking for cobia, we still were trolling plugs. Hunter Southall and Chris Boyce were on the bow when one of those rods went off. I got down off of the bridge faster than they could get back from the bow. I caught a 25-pound king mackerel. Went back up top to start trolling again and there were 2 nice cobia by the boat. The guys went scrambling to get to their casting rods. Hunter hooked up the smaller of the pair. That cobia ended up weighing in at 45 pounds. After boating that fish and getting it and the king on ice, we decided to leave them biting and to head in for an early dinner. The flurry at the end was close to the Dump Site buoy. There was a good king mackerel and cobia bite (and big red drum) bite today. The largest cobia I heard weighed 68 pounds and kings to 34 pounds were weighed in.