Fishing while Cobia fishing?

[Chevelle]

So while I am anchored, chum slick going, and baits out for Cobia out of the back of the boat I go around front and bottom fish for more bait (croaker, spot etc).

Is this a good idea or not?

I have heard that if you do catch croaker that the cobia are not around and if the bite stops suddenly maybe bigger fish have spooked them.

What do you guys/girls think?

[HeyCharlie]

I have caught cobia holding under my boat, while shark fishing.. just landed shark when cobia took bait being thrown over side. (BTW, I know very little about cobia)

[Gotta Gaff 'Em]

If anything I'll throw a spoon through the chums lick to pick up any stray bluefish and then send them back it as live bait

[diggy23662]

ive done it and caught fish to keep the live well occupied. and i have caught cobia while doing it. we caught some taylor blues in the chum slick the other day and hooked a nice cobia but lost it at the boat.

[Kevin Smith]

Many of us have caught cobia while flounder fishing! Twice for me and several times for buddy boats around us!

Kevin
Weekend Mistress

[Getaway]

I always put a rod over, right behind the chum pot on the bottom, to catch some flounder. Works!

[Sam H.]

I've only been cobia fishing for a couple seasons now, but i've noticed that I catch far fewer, if any, small fish on days that I catch good numbers of predatory fish such as sharks and cobia. I've done really well catching cobia and sharks on all my trips so far this year and between 3 trips have caught a total of one sea mullet on my bait rod. I would imagine that there is some correlation there.

[root23185]

If you're bottom chumming, throw a strip of cut bait out in the chum slick and slowly retrieve and pause. The flounder will follow the chum slick right to you! I use any live bait that dies or if a bait's been out for a while and is looking weak. Takes some boredom away from a slow day chumming and usually ensures fresh fish for dinner if the brown clown does'nt show!

[jogrun10k]

Caught a lot of roundhead cobia fishing. Put small strips of bunker on a bottom rig. Any other small stuff can be used for live bait for Cobia.

[MattD]

If you're chumming around the bluefish rock area Id recommend jigging gulps on 1 to 2 oz heads off the bottom all around the boat, especially near the chum slick. Ive caught far more flounder than cobia on my cobia trips. The structure there is perfect and full of flounder