Hello everyone,
Just came back from a camping trip at Double Island, and with very little surf and no wind dad and I launched on Saturday in pristine conditions.
The signs weren't looking favorable, with no birds or surface action apart from a few dolphins cruising behind the surf. After a couple of hours all we had to show for our efforts were a couple of small flathead and the odd grinner chucked in. I decided to call it quits and had paddled about 20m when dad started yelling. I turned around and saw he had a nice healthy bend in his rod. At first dad called it for a shark but when it surfaced we saw a nice cobia! I came over and gaffed it for him as he had left his behind. It ended up that dad had just dropped a unweighted pilly down and due to the absence of wind it just floated down to the bottom, and the fish had hit it while the reel was still on freespool.
I decided to give this a go, and sure enough before it had hit the bottom my reel started humming. After a missed gaff shot that almost ended in tears where I bumped the lever drag into freespool, I managed to land another nice cobia, of a similar size to dads. With nothing else happening we decided to head back in, dad as usual ending up turtle but I managed to get in unscathed. I chucked together a quick vid of the events below.
Dads fish ended up weighing in at 12kg with mine slightly less.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers James
Just came back from a camping trip at Double Island, and with very little surf and no wind dad and I launched on Saturday in pristine conditions.
The signs weren't looking favorable, with no birds or surface action apart from a few dolphins cruising behind the surf. After a couple of hours all we had to show for our efforts were a couple of small flathead and the odd grinner chucked in. I decided to call it quits and had paddled about 20m when dad started yelling. I turned around and saw he had a nice healthy bend in his rod. At first dad called it for a shark but when it surfaced we saw a nice cobia! I came over and gaffed it for him as he had left his behind. It ended up that dad had just dropped a unweighted pilly down and due to the absence of wind it just floated down to the bottom, and the fish had hit it while the reel was still on freespool.
I decided to give this a go, and sure enough before it had hit the bottom my reel started humming. After a missed gaff shot that almost ended in tears where I bumped the lever drag into freespool, I managed to land another nice cobia, of a similar size to dads. With nothing else happening we decided to head back in, dad as usual ending up turtle but I managed to get in unscathed. I chucked together a quick vid of the events below.
Dads fish ended up weighing in at 12kg with mine slightly less.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers James