Ask anything.
It checks first.
Ask Cobia is the chat inside the app. Before it answers, it pulls your tide table, the waters near you, the rules for the fish and your own catch log and tackle box.
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Snook and jack crevalle are the steady ones at Jupiter Inlet right now, both confirmed by catches logged there. Mangrove snapper hold on the rocks along the jetties.
Fish the outgoing tide. Work a paddletail or a white bucktail along the north jetty where the current seams up, and go heavier on the leader for the snook.
Open in FishdexCommon Snook
Open Water Profile · 0.8 miJupiter Inlet
The gray line is what Cobia is checking. In the app it shows while the answer is on its way, then the answer takes its place.
Ask Cobia is the fishing chat in Cobia, the free fishing app. Ask in plain words and it looks things up before it answers: the tide table from the nearest station, the conditions where you are, the waters and spots nearby, the rules for the species, and your own catch log, Fishdex and tackle box. Answers come back in fishing talk, with cards that open the fish, the water or the catch.
Key facts
- Where it is
- The Ask Cobia field on Home, the Ask Cobia button on the briefing's call, and the Fishing Guide screen.
- What it checks
- Thirteen lookups, from your catch log and tackle box to tide tables, nearby waters, fishing spots and regulations.
- Your own data
- Your catches, personal bests, Fishdex and tackle box. Only yours.
- Answers you can tap
- Cards that open the species, the water, the spot, the catch or the angler it named.
- Your chats
- Every open starts a fresh chat. Earlier ones wait in Recent Chats.
- Price and platforms
- Free on iPhone and Android.
Thirteen things it can look up
A question about tomorrow pulls tomorrow's tide. A question about your best fish reads your log. Each lookup shows as a line while it runs, word for word as below.
Your log, your records and what's in your box.
- Checking your catch log…
- Searching your catches…
- Looking up your personal bests…
- Opening your Fishdex…
- Opening your tackle box…
- Picking lures…
Where you are, or a place you name.
- Reading tides & conditions…
- Pulling the tide table…
- Scanning nearby waters…
- Finding fishing spots…
The limits for the fish, the leaderboards and the app itself.
- Checking regulations…
- Checking the leaderboard…
- Checking the Cobia guide…
It names it, then it links it
When an answer names a fish, a water, a spot, a catch or an angler, a card for it lands under the words. Tap it and you're on that page in the app.
- Numbers come as a card, like a personal best or a count for the year.
- Waters and spots carry the distance from where you're standing.
- Anglers you've blocked never show up in an answer.
A number
A fish
Open in FishdexCommon Snook
This one opens the snook's page here on the site.
Sample cards. The angler is a made-up example.
From your box, lead with the white bucktail on the north jetty seam while the tide is moving. When it slacks, put the 4 inch mullet paddletail on a jighead and work the seawalls slow.
White and natural shad colors are the ones producing for snook. You don't own a topwater walker, and that's the gap worth filling before a calm morning.
Sample chat.
It answers from the lures you own
Ask what to tie on and Cobia opens your tackle box first. It ranks what's already in it for the fish, names the colors that are producing now, and only then points at a gap.
Ask from wherever you are in the app
You don't have to dig for it. The question you have usually starts on one of these screens.
A field on Home
Tap it and the chat opens.
Under the day's call
Ask about the spot, the window or the rig the daily briefing just picked.
Cobia says: fish a live pilchard along bridge shadow lines as the afternoon wind builds.
Under your ranked lures
When the ranking isn't enough, a line under it points you to the chat.
A clean slate every time
Open the chat and it starts fresh, so yesterday's question doesn't tangle today's answer. Every earlier chat is a tap away in Recent Chats, titled by the question that started it.
The chats shown are examples.
What it reads from
Questions about Ask Cobia
What is Ask Cobia?
The fishing chat inside the Cobia app. Ask it anything from a knot to a game plan for tomorrow, and it looks up the tide, the conditions, nearby waters and spots, the regulations and your own fishing before it answers.
Is Ask Cobia free?
Yes. It's free in Cobia on iPhone and Android, with no paid tier.
Will it make up a fishing spot?
It's told to recommend only waters and species its lookups returned, and to say where each fish came from: caught at that water, caught on similar water nearby, or Cobia's own prediction for it.
Does it know the fishing regulations?
It can look up the size, slot, bag and season rules for a species in your state, or a state you name, and it tells you to confirm with the state agency before you keep a fish.
Can it see my catches?
Your own, yes. It reads your catch log, personal bests, Fishdex and tackle box to answer questions about them. It doesn't read anyone else's log.
Does it remember earlier chats?
Each time you open it you start a fresh chat. Your earlier chats stay in Recent Chats, where you can open any of them and carry on.
Ask before
you launch.
Download Cobia and ask about the water you're fishing this weekend.
