Like a brown flash the fish charged our starboard side picked up the outside line at a 90 degree angle. It took the green/yellow feather and kept going across to port. Amazingly, it did not take the other five lines with it. Ruta grabbed the rod and we strapped the belt on her.
Soon it became apparent that the this was something different: Didn't jump like a mahi and didn't dive like tuna. The critter ran off a couple of hundred yards before Ruta was able to turn him. It was obvious that she had ahold of a very strong fish.
However, 15 minutes later, it got close enough for identification. After a few harrowing moments attempting to net the critter, a beautiful brown suited man, a cobia was flopping around on the deck.
This was quite an unusual catch for being so far offshore, on Sam's Hill 31 miles from Wachapreague Inlet. For us it was particularly weird because we spent six days last year fishing for cobia in the Bay without getting a single hit. And now caught one by accident.
This was just part of of great day. We also caught a 21 pound mahi and another about 8 pounds. We also had quite a few other hits but they missed the hook.
On the way in we stopped at a wreck and topped off the day with a good mess of beautiful cbass.
Have a great 4th everyone.
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