Definition of cobia
: a large bony fish (Rachycentron canadum of the family Rachycentridae) of warm seas that is a food and sport fish
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Spanish are showing around bait schools in the open sound as well as along the beaches, and some cobia are also starting to move along the beaches; www.ateamfishing.com.
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Saltwater fishing for tarpon, cobia, redfish and sea trout is also available in the spring and summer.
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Schoolers by the dozens are taking live shrimp under popping corks, Abruscato reports, and some Spanish mackerel are mixed in, with more Spanish, kings and cobia due off the beaches.
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The pogies are getting ready to migrate too, and the cobia gorge on them to get ready to shoot back east.
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An even more astonishing cobia fillet, at once meaty and delicate, bathes in a mild, gently sweet sauce scented by curry leaf and stained by tumeric that's offset by crunchy bitter-melon chips—
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A thick cobia fillet luxuriates in a coconut-curry broth.
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Eligible fish in the spearfishing division include barracuda, cobia, grouper, jack crevalle, sheepshead, mangrove snapper, triggerfish and miscellaneous.
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Eligible species are cobia, dolphin, kingfish, wahoo and blackfin tuna.
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Origin and Etymology of cobia
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First Known Use: circa 1873
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