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.

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.

The Old Dominion University Alumni Association will host its sixth annual Monarch Cobia Classic fishing tournament July 11-13.

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

Anglers caught 2-foot-long predators with toothy tongues identified by scientists as two new species: blotchy and Makran cobia, study said.