Date: 12-10-2025. Time: 1800 hrs. Rod: Penn Slammer. Reel: Daiwa Saltist 40. Rig: Long Snood Bottom Feeder. Bait: Defrost kunning
Went with a friend for a evening trip. Tide was on the way down and water level is low. As i know recently hardly and any bait fish around so i brought along few frozen baits.
While i was having my packet dinner, my reel scream. I grab my rod and strike hard. The fish immediately swim toward deeper water about 50 meter out and make a leap out of the water surface. I didn’t manage to see clearly what fish it was. But my mind went through it could be a shovelnose, cobia or a big queen fish. I manage to change it direction and it start swim toward the shoreline. By now i can see it clearly it was a big cobia as it float on the water surface. I ask my friend to prepare a gaff. I keep my line short and tight between me and the fish as to prevent it of making a last minute burst of dash to go below the jetty.
As it come close, my friend manage to gaff it on a second attempt. I quickly put down my rod and grab my own gaff to put in a second one. Two gaff in, we both pull it up. It weigh 22+kg. This is my second biggest cobia caught at the jetty. My biggest was caught at year 2007 weigh 25kg. Later the night we cut it up and share among my friends.
Shoreangler 