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Perched high in the tower of Capt. Zack Hoffman’s Clock Work, we scoured large swaths of Chesapeake Bay in search of cruising cobia. Without such height, it’s challenging at best to distinguish the ...

"Shark" is the first word that pops into the head of someone new to cobia fishing as the sleek dark fish comes up from the blue water. Then, as it gets closer, the large flat head and mouth soon get ...

Capt. Danny Beare leans over the controls in the tuna tower of the Bushwhacker 30 feet above the water, steering a steady course northward along the coast from Hillsboro Inlet. A cup of black coffee ...

Every year, cobia migrate from south Florida all the way to the northern Gulf Coast to spawn. Starting in late March and continuing through the month of April the fish can be found just south of ...

Two saltwater superstars -- cobia and Florida pompano -- are regarded by connoisseurs as being some of the world's best seafood. Both cobia (pronounced COE-bee-uh) and pompano (POM-puh-no) have firm, ...

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), has claimed to have made a breakthrough in breeding and larval production of Cobia, a huge fish that is rarely netted by fishermen. “For the ...

I bumped into Capt. Freddy Gamboa on Andreas' Toy Charters on Saturday morning at Clarke's Landing in Point Pleasant and the seasoned charter captain said he was specifically going out to catch a ...

It was February 8 on all-day offshore charter fishing trip for 10 men off Southwest Australia to celebrate the 21 st birthday of local angler Lucas Tapper. “My friend Callum Tapper set up a day of ...