Red Cod
 

Was fishing out of Plymouth this morning. Not a bass to be found but we slayed cod.

Caught 22 cod in all and a few small pollack.

I'm curious though, they were all very very red. Is this because all they are eating is lobster and redcrabs or something? One big one puked up a lobster that probably weighed about a lb.

Amusingly enough, caught them all bouncing a deadly #^&#^&#^&#^& and storm shads.

Keeper size??

Average was 20"
4 keepers all about 10lbs with one 15lber
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Sounds like a good morning!!!:uhuh:

MMMMMMMM...Cod.....:drool:

Cod are the chameleons of the sea. They match the bottom. Different bottom, different color.

I've heard it said that red cod are resident fish while green cod just migrated to the area. No idea if its true or not.

Agree.
Red cod are pretty much inshore cod.

Groundskeeper cod, they stay inshore.
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at what depth.... were they at?

Dosen't really matter.
We got spots I've gotten in very shallow and spots over 300ft

On tillies this weekend we got probably 3 out of 80 cod were red rock cod. Generally all are 21" or smaller
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between 60-109'

Of the 22 caught.. all were red except for 3...