Headed out today with a mate from woodmans point, we were on the water around 6ish with the wind looking good. Headed out deep sounding some schools of snapper, the wind kicked up and made fishing tough, a few size snapper were released, hoping for something a bit bigger. With the wind and swell making it difficult to hold bottom, we headed in a bit shallower.

We started off slow, but gained momentum with some nice runs on our drift baits resulting in some nice snapper landed and we reached our bag limit.

Half way in to the session, one of the rods bent over. As I striked, a big splash in the distance as it jumped out of the water. It was called for a shark, it was pulling hard. After a bit of a fight it saw the boat and took off again (like a shark would). Finally after getting it to the surface, we realised it was a cobia and the decky scrambled for the net. The net snapped from the weight and the fish was back in the water! Then the decky grabbed the gaff and pulled it over to land me my first cobia!

The cobia went 112cm and solid around 12kg, possibly more (don't my trust scales)

A nice 58cm king george was also landed somewhere amongst the chaos.

The wind died off during the day after we made it in shallower (typical) so it turned out to be a great day on the water.

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