As I have put my boat on the trailer and left the fish biting down south, I've been groundfishing for cod and it has been a blast. How lucky are we when all those with boats/trailers have to do is tow a few, maybe 50-100 miles, even though I only have to go 30-35 miles east, and have just about every species of inshore fish available to catch. And these cod are tasty things. I give all the bass away I get but the cod I'm starting to stockpile and even find recipies for, yeah, me, recipies. I had cooked in over 15 restaurants in MA over 10 years but I still don't like to cook anymore as I hung up my apron 10 years ago and vowed to never set foot in a kitchen agian, but this cod is so tasty and not to mention my previous hitherto girlfriend likes it as well so that is a plus, she likes it, she really likes it.
This past beautiful fall Sunday, I was into them again, not 10 miles from the ramp, incredible that these things even exist in the water from all I had heard about overfishing. Even being in sight of land is pretty incredible as I know they are always 30+ miles out but not really this far in until this time of the year. I expect to fish at least until December for them and even into the winter if anyone is game for cold-weather fishing, but once snowmobile season starts you can find me with all the other grown men riding around in circles through the woods in New Hampshire. I found plenty of 4-8 inch lobsters in the bellies of the keepers along with all sorts of stone crabs, even baby wolffish, the little teeth on the partially digested wolffish were cool, had I thought of it I would have saved the jaws like I do the dried up tails of the big stripers I keep and the bonito for souveniers. I imagine the lobstermen must not like the cod eating all their potential catch, but it is good to see both species still in the water as it must mean only good things.
I'll be out again this Saturday and Sunday as I'm hooked on catching the things. I've had my share of black sea bass, fluke, scup, bluefish, bass, and bonito this season and all my life, it is now cod-time for me as the experience of being out this late in the season and hooking and catching the things is addiction all over again. Anyone else care to catch these things? I know this is
www.striped-bass.com not
http://www.catchsomecod.com, not a r...over the pond, but was just wondering. I've yet to get into some "whale-cod" but compared to pulling 30lb bass off the bottom of a rip, these cod do hold their own, I really think that bass don't fight all that hard anyway and that bluefish make a mockery of how strong/tough bass are, and can only imagine getting 20-40 pounders in off the bottom must be some work.
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