Only bait that we have ever got a Cobia (Ling) to eat on a consistent bases is live eels. Can be stubborn son of a guns at time. Nice haul STX
I've had good luck with a peeled jumbo shrimp burying the hook in it on a fluorocarbon leader.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter