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Sunday, June 18, 2006
116.5-Pound Cobia Landed Off OBX; IGFA and NC Records Pending
 Last week Billy Ray Lucas of Wilson was fishing with Troy Crane of Grandy aboard Crane's Marauder, a 35-foot Bertram, out of Oregon Inlet when he landed a new NC state record cobia. Lucas' cobia weighed 116.5 pounds and beat the old North Carolina record for a cobia of 113 pounds caught in 2003 on the shoals at Cape Hatteras. The catch is also eligible for a new world record for cobia in the 50 pound test line category. Both records are pending but it appears that everything is in order for Lucas to have his name in a few record books. Lucas was sight-casting to cobia on sandbars when the record cobia bit a bucktail jig with a squid strip. More on the pending record is available from the News & Observer.
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