Today my fishing buddies for a full day were Sean, Greg, Tony and Bernard who work in the freight department for Fedex over in Orlando. We departed my dock here in Cocoa Beach at the usual 7:00 AM and proceeded through the locks. A quick stop at Sunrise Marina to add a few gallons of fuel and a box of sardines and we were off.
    First stop as usual was a run down the beach in search of a few pogies for the live well and after a couple of tosses of the net it was off to 8A for some slow trolling. The bite was not red hot but steady and were were able to catch more than a limit of kingfish by about 1:30 PM.
    We discussed our options and decided to opt to try to catch some snapper for the fish box in lieu of running offshore for Mahi since the bottom fishing option would also leave the possibility of a Cobia open to us as well. After a 45 minute run to the north to some productive bottom I've been fishing since before Christmas we arrived and anchored up in a "screaming" current. We were fishing in only 60' of water and 12 ounces of lead wouldn't hold bottom making the bottom fishing difficult at best. We were able to catch a dozen or so snapper for our efforts and were able to bag only two keepers. We also caught two Cobia while we were bottom fishing. The first was a 32 1/2 inch that made it way into our landing net, dang, just short, tagged and released. The second was a 26 incher that was netted and quickly tagged and released as well.
   The current frustrated us and the wind picked up in the late afternoon making the 30 mile ride home a little bumpy, but, as usual my beloved Bluewater 2850 ate up the 3'-4' seas with a 4 second wave period wind slop and we were back in Port Canaveral within one hour.
    The guys had a side bet on who would catch the largest fish of the day and the winner hands down was Bernard with a 20# King.

Final tally for the day:
13 Kingfish with 10 kept for the table
2 keeper Red Snapper
2 Cobia tagged and released to grow up