SPRING INTO IT!!!

Well, as it's happened now for the last four or five years, the magic day has been the day that the time changes back to daylight savings. For some reason on this particularly magical day the Big Cobia decides to come in and allow me to delight in their feeding. I had hemmed and hawed about going out Saturday all week, the weather looked distasteful, but once again by sitting in a cubical somehow I justified taking a beating and on top of that I somehow convinced two other guys to go out with me. I had even waited till 10:00 or so till the wind started to turn like the weather site said it would, to give John D a call. It ended up being John D, Matt and me on Saturday a Saturday that none of us had any business being on a boat in the ocean. But we were determined dangit! Determined to catch the great turd of the sea, the elusive ling or the clingy pelagic... I could go on.... but catch a cobia we did not. It was more like survive the day then a day out fishing with some friends. Anyway to put that behind me I weaseled my way onto John M's boat Sunday a much more pleasantly forecasted day on the same NOAA site mind you. As traditions has it whamo...two over 30 pounds and a 4 pound triple tail to put the icing on the cake. It was a long period swell which made boating um...well...just swell...the wind did what we were told it was going to do and the skies stayed nice and blue to allow us to see into the lovis green water an look for those little buggers. Pretty much not much else to report on the rest of it. If you ever want to harvest one of these sea monsters all you have to do, in layman’s terms, is get out on a bright sunny day (lather on the sun screen of course) find some water temps in the 68-72 degree zone and start looking for what looks like small brown logs swimming near the surface of the water. Sometimes that log looking, dark spot will be a cobia sometimes it will be a giant manta ray which is a good thing for cobia fishing and once in a while it will just be a log... really. grab your gear rated for about 25 pound fish and use a lead head jig. Pink seems to be the goto color this year and if you're anything like me you can't help but laugh to yourself thinking about all the "burrly" fishermen walking out of the bait shops with a bag full of pink lures. I love it. "Um? Excuse me sir? Do you have this in Pink?" i'll be back to finish this post soon...tbc