Went into work yesterday for about an hour and then had an emergency
, I needed to get out on the water. So I met my friend Erik at his house about 9:30 and rolled to Rudee from there. We decided to run the first couple sets of bouys and then chum on the southern most bouy for cobes/sharks or whatever decided to show up. On our second bouy, I throw a three ounce bucktail at the bouy and two cobes come chasing it out, I yank the bucktail and Erik throws a fly at them. They nose it and play with it, but no love. We throw in there a couple of more times and they dissapear. We decide to head to the next bouy , check it out and then come back. We goto the next one, no love, so we go back to the bouy that had the cobes. We pull up I throw the bucktail start cranking and never had a chance to yank the bucktail away, 39" cobe to the boat and on the grill tonight. We set up in some clean water and chum for about three hours no joy, I think it was a current against wind thing, we never seemed to get a good slick going. Decided to move into some shallower water where there was a little more current, drop the bag and in no more than 5 minutes, a hammer shows up. Throw the fly at him, hook up, he takes a run and then comes unbuttoned. He comes back, Erik takes a shot, hooks up and comes unbuttoned.
Finally he dissapears and sends in his posse of spinners and black tips, we spent the next two hours catching sharks and about 80% of them gave us an air show. I think at one point we had 8 sharks circling at the back of the boat. We decided to call it a day around 5:30, we pull the anchor and start drifting back through our slick to see if there are more sharks around, we are about at the end of the slick and I make one last cast. I see this shark chasing my fly , I start twitching to try and keep him interested, as he gets closer I realize it is another cobia. I make a couple more strips and cobia 2 is hooked up, gives us a decent show with some air time , we net and release him to get bigger, we was 32". Caught him on a chartruese and white mortar clouser. Caught most of the sharks on a red and orange big eye bunny fly. That fly definitely was productive, at one point I had three sharks in four casts