How to Use cobia in a Sentence

cobia

noun
  • Anglers can drop a line off the edge of the tower and pull up grouper and cobia for dinner.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The pogies are getting ready to migrate too, and the cobia gorge on them to get ready to shoot back east.
    — Ben Raines, AL.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Try catching your own snapper, grouper, sea bass, kingfish, or cobia.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, many cobia were caught right at boatside after following their hooked schoolmate to the boat.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 14 Nov. 2021
  • James Carabillo won the cobia class with a 19-pound, 3-ounce fish.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 June 2018
  • The camera then pans down to the water where the hooked cobia rolls to the surface as one of the other anglers lowers his bridge net.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Saltwater fishing for tarpon, cobia, redfish and sea trout is also available in the spring and summer.
    — Smithsonian, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Look for rabbit with pancetta, pan- roasted foie gras, shrimp brulee, cobia with West Indian pumpkin or sweetbreads.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • And when the bait is there en masse, the predators are there also; kings, Spanish, jacks, ladyfish, cobia and other species are caught from the span at this time of year.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 21 May 2017
  • Off the beaches, Spanish mackerel will turn on as soon as winds drop and water clears, and cobia are also in the area around markers and other structure.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Due to their range and abundance, blue crabs are the most common live bait crab and are used for a wide variety of gamefish, including tarpon, permit, cobia, red drum, and more.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • In the video that was shared to Instagram on July 24, a bull shark attacks a fishing boat while the anglers onboard fish for cobia.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2023
  • An angler in Delaware has officially set a new state record after reeling in a colossal cobia earlier this week.
    — Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Eligible species are kingfish, dolphin, tuna, cobia and wahoo.
    — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 June 2017
  • Local fishing reports indicate that the cobia, dolphin, kingfish, tuna and wahoo are biting.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Eligible species are cobia, dolphin, kingfish, wahoo and blackfin tuna.
    — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 June 2017
  • Altogether, their six-fish haul of two amberjacks, two African pompano, a permit, and a cobia weighed roughly 300 pounds.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
  • Eligible fish species this year include speckled trout, mangrove snapper, cobia, dorado, red snapper, flounder and sheepshead, with method of take coming into play for speckled trout.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 25 May 2017
  • Eels are go-to baits for stripers, but also extremely effective for many other species, including cobia, tarpon, various bottom fish, amberjack, and even billfish.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The charter boat Two Conchs out of Marathon reported his clients have been bending their fishing rods with catch and release African pompano, big goliath groupers and a few nice cobias.
    — Alan Sherman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Last summer, officials noticed an uptick in the number of cobia — long, large, normally solitary fish that inhabit the Chesapeake Bay’s deep, open waters during warmer months.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 July 2017
  • In the same press release, Florida announced a new youth record cobia and a new state record for mangrove snapper—both of which were caught by Julia Bernstein back in January.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
  • For many Atlantic and Gulf Coast anglers, large live menhaden (also referred to as bunker or pogies) are premier baits for tarpon, king mackerel, cobia, striped bass, bluefish, and more.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • 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.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Eligible fish in the spearfishing division include barracuda, cobia, grouper, jack crevalle, sheepshead, mangrove snapper, triggerfish and miscellaneous.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 28 June 2017

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