Enter the Spring Cobia Shootout here. You can pay here and you’ll be written down for the tournament.
🎣 Largest Cobia Overall & 2 Cobia Aggregate $200 Entry
🎣 TWT Largest King Mackerel $50 Entry
🎣 TWT Largest Amberjack $50 Entry
🎣 TWT Youth Angler for Largest Cobia $50 Entry
🎣 High Roller Event for Largest Cobia & 2 Cobia Aggregate $500 Entry
Rules and Details
1. Competition days are from May 18th – June 14th. Each boat entered chooses 3 days out of the competition days to declare for fish days.
2. Each boat in the tournament shall text their captain's name, boat name, and the day they are declaring to 919-763-5109 to declare their fishing days. The days you choose to fish must be declared before 5 a.m. of the day you decide to fish for each of your 3 declarable days.
3. Lines can be dropped in at 5 a.m and you can proceed to fish all day. All fish must be caught on rod and reel, and there shall be no more than six lines fished from any boat.
4. Boundaries are from Murrells Inlet to the Frying Pan Shoals off the Cape Fear River Channel. All boats must remain within boundaries during the day you declare to fish while on the water. All boats must remain within boundaries while catching bait.
5. The weigh-in station will be located at Mad Kingz Outdoors in Ocean Isle Beach. Fish entered in the competition must be weighed by 12 p.m. the next day.
6. To enter the tournament, there is a $200 entry fee to enter both, Largest Cobia Overall & 2 Cobia Aggregate. Tournaments within the tournament include the Largest King Mackerel $50, Largest Amberjack $50, Youth Angler for Largest Cobia $50, and The High Roller Event for both, Largest Cobia Overall & 2 Cobia Aggregate $500.
7. Each fish will be entered into the appropriate category, so the angler receives the greatest prize earnings. If two or more king mackerel are the same weight, the winner will be determined by the first king mackerel brought to the scales. You can weigh an unlimited amount of times to better your catch within your 3 declarable days.
8. Total entries determine the amount paid out. We will payout 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place in the Big Cobia Overall & the 2 Cobia Aggregate. 1st Place receives 50% of total + $500 Okuma voucher, 2nd Place receives 20% of total + $250 voucher, and 3rd Place receives 10% of total. This goes for both categories, Big Cobia Overall & 2 Cobia Aggregate. The TWT’s will only pay out 1st Place and winner takes all. 80% of entry fees goes to the boaters. 20% goes to marketing, hosting, and gifts.
9. Guaranteed prizes include $1,500 worth of Okuma fishing gift certificates redeemable at Mad Kingz Outdoors. $500 vouchers to 1st Place in Big Fish Overall and 2 Cobia Aggregate and $250 vouchers to 2nd Place in Big Fish Overall and 2 Cobia Aggregate. Danco is providing prizes such as a pro series skinny flex 7” seafoam, pro series pliers seafoam, and a 3-knife kit in seafoam so a lucky angler will win these gifts. Danco has a captain bucket gift for all the captains as well. Blue Water Candy is giving an assortment of cobia rigs, cobia jigs, and swirl tail grubs. Big Thank You to our sponsors!
10. All fish submitted for weigh-in must be in fresh, edible condition caught on the day that was declared. No damaged fish which may impair the fish’s fighting ability will be accepted. Attempted weight alterations of any fish disqualifies the boat from the tournament. All fish entered will be marked with a permanent marking so no fish can be double entered in the tournament.
11. It is the obligation of the captains and crews of the boat to adhere to all US Coast Guard, NC Wildlife Resource Commission, and NC Marine Fisheries regulations and requirements.