A big cobia was landed on the Axel Carlson Reef while the bonito are running with bluefish ...

Cobia, while no stranger to New Jersey in the summer, is not a generally targeted species here. However, it is one of those fish that anglers are hooking more and more.

More: Big cobia fish strikes, one of the season's first landed off New Jersey coast Cobia are most abundant from Virginia south, but they swim to New Jersey waters in the late spring and summer.