Ling/Cod reports?

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Originally Posted by Capt. Lou

Never remember winter linging as good as spring . U could fill a burlap bag on the tide @ the Cedars in April / May .
Winter whiting / cod were king , such drops as Scotland , Ambrose, Cholera , Red square & 17 to name a few . Remember filling bags w/ whiting in sight of Ambrose light ship !
Mackerel were very abundant in fall & huge runs were available in spring, along the beach . Flounder fishing was solid in all the rivers / bays Feb thru May .
Both ling & whiting could be caught in the deep year round ! Gt Tuna loved em'!
We'll never see this again, hard to swallow it's all gone !
Thanks 200 mile limit !!

It won't kill me to not be able to get a trip or two in this winter for bottom fish. It is what it is. I'll live.
What I wonder about however is how this affects the party boat guys moving forward through the years.. Without some sort of a viable winter fishery in the future, that means these captains sail 9 months instead of 12.. Pretty tough to deal with I would think. Thats a quarter or better of their work year. I suppose a few more could go blackfishing, but that would mean even more pressure on the poor tog.. I hope for a resurgence of the traditional cold water fisheries that were with us every year, year after year for as long as records on such things were kept.. We caught and ate all those huge masses of fish? With nets and rods?
Its been like this for many years now, but I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact outside a slow pick on tog, there are virtually no fish to be caught from Jan through March..... sucks.......... bob