A Chicopee man was locked in a nearly two-hour battle reeling in a behemoth of catch at Connecticut’s Long Sand Shoal last Thursday, Connecticut Fish and Wildlife (CFW) officials said the fish may have broken a state record.
John Bertolasio of Chicopee told CFW he used a dead eel on Long Sand Shoal when he first snagged the bite. Once he reeled the fish over to the boat, it swam straight down and snapped his pole in half. Bertolasio initially thought it was a shark at first when he saw the brown fins. He would end up spending 1.5 hours reeling up a 4-foot, 8-inch Cobia.
Once Bertolasio found out that his catch was both legal and a good meal, he kept the nearly 5-foot-long fish, wildlife officials stated.
Connecticut Fish and Wildlife officials believe the catch broke a state record, the agency is awaiting to confirm the fish’s weight on a certified scale.
Cobia are often mistaken for sharks or remoras, according to CFW. In fact, their closest living relative is the remora also known as shark suckers. The fish can grow up to 6 feet and 100 pounds and live up to 12 years, wildlife officials said.
The Cobia species of fish are typically found in waters far south of New England. However, wildlife officials believe climate change impact has made encounters with southern species more common in the Long Island Sound, the Atlantic-Ocean body of water off the coast of the Long Sand Shoal.
“Mid-Atlantic species are becoming more common in the Sound,” according to an issue of the Connecticut Wildlife magazine. “And even tropical species are not the oddities that they once were.”
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