T.J. Ryan with a nice pair of 40 pounders on May1 2009

I had never heard a cobia called this but last week a friend of mine gave me a list of common and some not so common names for one of my favorite fish to target. I have heard them called ling, lemonfish, black kingfish, but never the “prodigal son.”  Last week me and Capt. Charlie combined for 7 nice fish on a great weather week.  The water is up to around 72 and rising. Last week we caught fish to 55lbs. and we should see this continue through the month of may. Waiting on the wind to die down and then we’ll get back to the prodigal son for some more great cobia action!