Description:
Strong fish with broad depressed head; lower jaw projects past upper jaw; dark
lateral stripe extends through eye to tail sometimes mistaken for a shark. When
young, has a conspicuous alternating black and white horizontal stripe.Description:
Strong fish with broad depressed head; lower jaw projects past upper jaw; dark
lateral stripe extends through eye to tail sometimes mistaken for a shark. When
young, has a conspicuous alternating black and white horizontal stripe.
Where Found: Around wrecks, pilings, channel markers, both inshore and offshore inhabiting inlets, bays, frequently seen around buoys.
Feeding Habits: Feeds best on live bait (pinfish, cigar minnows, croakers, grunt, blue runners and squirrelfish). Also feeds on dead bait (spanish sardines, threadfin and finger mullet) squid, and crustaceans.
Size Range: From 15-70 lbs. Current Florida state record 103 lbs.
Bag Limit/Size Limit: 1 cobia per person per day, 6 per boat max. Cobia must be 33 inches in length from nose to fork of tail.
Food Value: Good table fare. Thick white fillets, with a light to mild fish taste.