Quote Originally Posted by reeltight View Post
For goodness sake don’t put one in the boat green. LOL. Saw some high guys in Beaufort a couple years ago in a 12’ Jon boat sitting on cheap lawn chairs over the bench seat, put one in the boat green. Cobia went to town on that boat. Flipped everything out of the boat…including one of the dudes. It may have been one of the funniest fishing scenes i have ever seen.
That’s why you keep the Billy club nearby. They get their skulls caved in the second they hit the deck. The last one I freegaffed was about 30#, I was beating his brains in with one hand and holding the gaff with the other.

A good friend of mine, an extremely good fisherman, had never caught one. We were out in my old Pioneer and he hooked what we thought was a sand tiger at first. When he finally got it boat side it was the biggest cobia either of us had ever seen, state record big. This was ‘15/‘16 the year they closed the season early, it was the day after the closure and we had to let it go. I got a pic somewhere of it.