The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has certified one new cobia (Rachycentron canadum) and certified one new wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) state records for fish taken this past June.
On June 28, Jon Henry of Sunrise, Florida caught two cobia that tied for the record. Henry and friends were heading south from the Ocean City inlet to do some free-dive spearfishing over the African Queen wreck when they spotted a few cobia near Little Gull Shoals. Henry cast a bucktail lure with a plastic eel trailer and hooked one. After an hour-long fight he had the fish in the boat and quickly cast back to another, hooking it. The crew headed back to Sunset Marina for a weigh-in, where DNR Biologist Steve Doctor determined them to be essentially identical. Both fish came in at 54.5 inches long and 75 pounds, beating the previous 72-pound record set in 2009 by Chris Toner.
On June 30, John Schaar of Cardiff, California caught a record-setting wahoo. He was trolling a crystal and chartreuse Sea Witch lure with a ballyhoo trailer in about 60 fathoms of water over the Rockpile ─ a fishing “hot spot” 58 miles southeast of Ocean City ─ and hooked an 82-inch, 131-pound wahoo. Sunset Marina weigh-master Dave Wengel weighed the fish on an International Game Fish Association-certified scale, and DNR’s Steve Doctor certified the catch as a new State record. The previous record was a 111-pound fish caught in 2003 by Christian Tiller.
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