Pic of me and my dinner companion

[Manogr]

100days-a-year of course I am not condemning and I wanted this to be obvious in my post... and I am happy it was !

From what I read you are a responsible hobbyist and not someone that kills everything and anything no matter if it is eatable or not or what its size or age...

That way I can really and honestly accept your sport...

I guess my post and my ideas are affected by the vast majority of fish hunters that I know, that they are iresponsible and kill whatever they find ! I hope that I know the wrong ones and that the majority is like you...

Enjoy your sport...

Manogr

 

[Butch103]

Help me out folks...a Cobia (oviously a fish ) belongs to what family ?? and is the one in the pic a usual size ?? extremely large ?? (seems like it from the comments of those in the know)

Help out us non knowing folks ...thanks

 

[100days-a-year]

Butch,Cobia belong to Order Perciformes Family Rachycentridae.They are distributed in the Atlantic &Gulf/Carribean.They are big,dumb and slow.Extremely strong fighters eating mostly invertabrates .They are tasty with a firm texture similar to pork.No fishy smell to the meat.They often school around wrecks and offshore structure,also around pilings and bouys.They are most famous for a relationship with rays Southern and Manta .As the rays migrate the coastal waters the cobia move with them eating forage the rays spook.The average size here is 35-50 lbs large to 75 and record is about 125.I watched my buddy being drug around by a 50lber last month.He'd shot it and couldn't pull himself up the line to dispatch the fish soon enough.The cobia swam wioth him for 3-5 minutes.He weighs 240 and had lp120x2 on and the cobia drug him fast enough to flail him around .Quite a sight.