[Kayak_Bernie]

I've caught a bunch of cobia in my day, only one off the kayak, but they are fighters, and very tasty on the table. They are in the same family as remoras and still have the habit of following large animals, in Florida you can catch them by finding large manta rays ; sometimes a big ray will have 4-10 30+lb fish escorting them. They love live bait, we mostly used menhaden, or cigar minnows, but I am sure some macks, or dines will do the trick! In the winter they love to hang around reefs and oil rigs and you can get them on big bucktail jigs. While I would hate to see them invade our waters and push out native fish, I don't think that they would ever become too invasive, they don't really school, and they have a pretty varied diet. It would be great to catch them in while helping to fix a ecological problem!