Playing The COBIA Lottery

Bottom fishing for cobia isn't glamorous, and involves a lot of bycatch. It's not my favorite way to fish, but I would say 90% of cobia over 60 pounds are caught chumming/bottom fishing. To target a true giant cobia, this is really the only way to go.
This video is a realistic portrayal of how it typically goes when targeting them this way. We were fortunate to come into contact with the target species, but often times it doesn't work out that way.
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[@peterparsons7141]

I have a pair of 8” locking surgical forceps that work well when unhooking big fish in rough water.
Once you lock on to the hook, hang on. Often thrashing fish unhook themselves, if not a sharp flip will do the trick.
I like the tool you’re using, a little more difficult to work with sometimes.

[@edsmith4257]

One of the best video's, Nolan. Goes to prove no one can predict what is going to be on the other end of the line...

[@MasonThurman03]

Nice vid those rays looked horrible. We have a lot of those crabs on the beach in Va. all the old heads call them calico crabs but I’m not sure if they are. when they wash up we will throw them out and we’ve caught striper black drum and red drum with them. Prime bait

[@nolanminor6761]

you should have seen how bad it got later that day, double header rays lol

[@matthewh5935]

Those crabs might be a family called Ovalipes and it might be Ova. ocellatus

[@czoubek]

I remember Brian Harrington keeping the ray on a back rod for a teaser

[@netmangaffer]

They crushed em’ that day and no doubt this crew has what it takes to make it happen again.

[@nickmaraveyias1185]

Pancakes galore!