Todds first Bay cobia

[OandaFX]

Todd had a taste of the big ones today with a nice 28kg cobe. His first and a very good effort.

With the weather looking a bit sus # for the rest of the week decided to do a quicky this morning.

Todd and family will be very happy with dinner tonight.

Good old E3 does it again!

Phil
ps decided I shouldn't show you the other 4 we kept...
only kidding.
just kept the one!

[chemmy]

nice work mate how big were the other three if there were any

[Wyoming]

WHOA! Nice work Phil - where were you fishing? What did you get him on?

[mattooty]

Beautiful fish. Really solid and healthy looking too. Fight time? What did you get him on?

[nigelr]

Great fish, guys. BTW Phil, what sort of boat is that? Sure looks like a beauty! Cheers.

[OandaFX]

Hi nigel,
a fisher centre console 5.5. IMO essential for boating fish like this in shallow water. It is rare that they don't run you a few laps of the boat in shallow water fishing and a thing with a cabin really puts you in a tricky situation.

Line = 24 kg TLD25 depth 15m eastern moreton bay
fight time, not real long when you are on 24kg with a harness and beacons

didn't really get 4 cobes. the rest were vermin
"sequence of trades" 1. beaconed by a 25kg cobe, 2 this fish in boat 3 great big old man turtle released to do what turtles do! 4 big old shovelnose 5 ditto another shovelnose 6 mega mega ray not moveable on 24 kg

phil


all on cut bait of jigged yakkas etc at beacon

[bidkev]

You're on 'em again Phil. Well done. Reckon the big ray (likely an eagle) and big shovelly lend themselves to cobe fishing if you were fishing where I think you were. I've had quite a few sightings now of cobes following rays and shovellies to the boat.........they keep good company Now if I can only catch the bloody cobes instead of the vermin

cheers

kev