Monday slow cod fishing

We went out at 5am with great weather and flat ocean and very high hopes of another banger day of fishing like we been used, but first 2 spots we hit had nothing next we caught a couple i ran east so far we started catching jumbo sea bass all released, had to go more inshore from there to get away from them. I tried north and south covering 200 miles of the ocean on our marathon trip, but all we had to show for it is 10 fish in the box, not even shorts were biting today