Use a 2- to 4-ounce yellow bucktail jig with a small bonita strip slapped on the hook. ... Whether in a boat or on a pier, hooking a cobia is as easy as presenting your jig in front of its face.

Herb Malone brings a cobia close to the boat during the spring run on the Gulf Coast. DESTIN, Fla. Tourism takes no break here in northwest Florida. Non-stop development of the panhandle and the ...

If you venture into the Gulf of Mexico, you can target grouper, snapper, amberjack, cobia, kingfish, little tunny and others. Jigs come in a variety of sizes and colors, from as light as 1/32 ...

One way to hook a cobia is to use a strong spinning rod and cast a 2-ounce jig a few feet in front of the fish. As the jig sinks, the cobia tends to dive down and grab it. Pitching a live bait ...

Cobia aren't just for anglers fishing from a boat, the Gulf piers see quite a few fish every spring as well. Pier fisherman typically use a 9-foot rod designed to throw the 2-3 ounce bucktail ...

While averaging from 10 to 50 pounds, it is not uncommon to tangle with cobia in the 50-to-100-pound range. The largest I remember caught locally was by a charter boat off Sarasota some years ago ...

Kingfish, cobia and triggerfish round out the action. Inshore: Capt. Glyn Austin of Going Coastal charters in Sebastian has been steering his anglers to excellent spring time fishing for snook ...

Cobia is a main target for Penhandle anglers starting in mid-March. ... On the pier, a 2 or 3 ounce buck tail jig is the bait of choice because the heavy jigs can be thrown long distances.

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But last weekend it took 28 pounds for a five-bass limit in a tournament out of Palatka. The word is most all the better stringers were caught deep.