"No, that’s not a shark. Not a remora either. Yes, definitely cast your bait; it’s a cobia!”I’m sure many charter skippers and guides from the mid-Atlantic through the Gulf have issued such instructions more than once.Cobia might be hard to identify and easily confused with sharks, especially if they’ve appeared suddenly from the green periphery, but their arrival energizes anglers in a heartbeat. They are one of the best-tasting, most nondescript fishes that swim in all tropical and subtropical waters (sans the eastern Pacific). Whether you fish off Australia, Japan, India or the Southeast United States, the cobia you catch are the same species — Rachycentron canadum — the sole member of its family.So whether you call them crab-eaters, lemonfish, ling, cobia or something else entirely, there’s plenty to the brown bomber that swims ...![cobia-feature-05]()
