Offshore Cobia, Kingfish, Barracuda, Cero Mackerel, and Big Jacks

Sport Fishing Islamorada Fishing Charters Florida Keys with Captain Rick Killgore

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Tony Carter caught at least 6 cobia off a whale shark that was cruising down the reef line. We were tarpon fishing, which was slow due to the cool weather. In these situations I'll listen to the VHF radio incase the fishing turns on offshore. I heard some friends talking about this whale shark which means - COBIA! We made the run and it paid off. These two cobia were around 25 lbs. each.

Big kingfish are caught anytime from fall to late spring. They are a fun by-catch while sailfish fishing.

We caught at least 15 cero mackerel that day while we were fishing for sailfish. We just kept enough of the big ones so they could take plenty home for dinners.

While sailfish fishing we catch big yellow jacks we caught while cero mackerel fishing and sailfish fishing. The sailfish and cero chase the big schools of ballyhoo on the reef.

A nice yellow jack on #15 test. They are good eating. I like them better than dolphin

This is a big horse-eye jack this boy caught standing up with heavy tackle.

Kids really love to catch barracudas. While we were fishing for permit on the wrecks, we caught a barracuda for my friend, Gale Porter's son Griffin. The barracudas will always show up in your chum line too, when we are fishing the reef for snapper.