{"id":11535,"date":"2026-04-26T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:49:10","slug":"banging-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=11535","title":{"rendered":"Banging Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the pleasure of fishing on the Special Kate yesterday with Charles Southall<\/span> and Hunter Southall<\/span>. We turned south out of Oregon Inlet. Put a spoon out in some busting fish and caught a big false albacore. Some grouper season is opening soon and Hunter wanted bait. Bait acquired, we looked for drum and found a school of reds along with a dozen other boats. I picked a big red out of that rodeo. We left them to go off on our own and found multiple schools of big black drum. We caught all of those we wanted. Measured one at 49 inches. We left them and looked for a cobia. We found rays, turtles and more black drum but never saw a cobia.<\/p>\n