PC - 8/22 - Hetzel Shoals

Sea Hunt

Left Blue Points dock at 8:30 am - hoping to net Pogeys and go to Hetzel Shoals... had to go miles south of the pier to find some scattered Pogeys flipping. Turned on the bait well - and found it died ! Had some dead frozen Pogeys - so headed to Hetzel - hoping to sight fish Cobias on Manta Rays as reported by pals. There was only a few boats on Hetzel when we arrived. As we looked for Manta Rays -- trolled a dead Pogey on one rod and a X Rap mullet lure on another. Not exactly on fire action - but maybe about 40 minutes into it -- a school of sardines came up in front of us . About that same time - a Giant Manta Ray breached out of the water - just beyond the bait school ! We were heading that way - when the dead Pogey rod went off -- it took a bit to get the nice sized King into the boat - so never saw that manta Ray again..... After awhile - a small king took another dead trolled Pogey... Not too long after -- saw another Manta Ray jump -- close enough to cast a Cobia jig in front of him -- but no dice ! .. Lost sight of that one too.... After another 30 or more minutes -- the X rap lure got hit --- turned out to be a keeper Cobia !.. He had a partner Cobia following him in -- but left when he saw the boat !... It was 12:30 - hotter than hell out there - so we quit and headed in ! pal Bill MacVittie is holding the Cobia back at the dock - he had opened his belly already - which was fully packed with small crabs !https://www.facebook.com/bob.glover.73/videos/1323477941010228/

Wavewalker

Great job! Thanks for the report

gatorhook

Congrats on the meat. Were the other boats out there mostly commercial or recs? Thanks for the report.

Inappropriate

Can someone tell me where Hetzel shoals is? Is it down by the 90' bar?

Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt

Maybe saw 6 scattered boats all day - half Charter guys - half recreational-

tonytali

Nice report. Thanks,

tryacc

Great job!

Panfishangler1

Very awesome report. Just curious, why would you need to cut the cobia stomach open? or was this just part of filleting it.

beachside321

Panfishangler1 wrote: »

Very awesome report. Just curious, why would you need to cut the cobia stomach open? or was this just part of filleting it.

Probably to find out what it's been eating.

Sea Hunt

only reason was - a dock pal was curious to see what the Cobia were eating -

Kim Chi

We almost always cut the bellies open to see what they have been eating, it's my son's favorite part. The other week we had a 12" mangrove with a baby sea turtle in it's stomach.

Reel Teal

I've seen octopuses to sea turtles inside them. Nice cobia!! That's a good late summer spot.....