Offshore Carolina Beach: Cobia, Dolphin, and Kings!!!
Was able to fish today with my wonderful father and brother in-law. We left Snow’s Cut boat ramp at around 1:00 in the afternoon to try and catch some big fish. After easily catching bait (live pogies), we headed about 22 miles out to fish some ledges. The wind was blowing less than 10 knots out of the west and could not of made for a smoother ride out. Shortly after the lines were in, fish on! Landed a couple of nice king mackerel rather quickly and hooked several sharks. Continued trolling and then a fish took the short bait. It jumped out the water to let us know that it was dolphin (Mahi Mahi). After landing the dolphin the bite slowed down so we headed somewhere else to try and pick up a cobia or two. We fished a wreck a couple of miles away to have non-stop amberjack action, the reef donkeys! We trolled a little more before we were about to head in when had three fish on at the same time. Each one of us fought a fish for about 20 mintues. It turned out that I had a cobia and they both had more reef donkeys! It was a great day of fishing and a good ride back in.
