as I started to say......it would be good to hear from perhaps a biologist why the
p.cod have come to take up residence in such numbers in our local waters. Is the story the
same in other parts of the Salish Sea, both north and south of here? I recall catching one or two in the 4-5 lb range while strip casting off Nanaimo (White Marker and Neck Point) in the 1960s but it was a rare event indeed.

In Campbell River waters especially Cape Mudge and the lighthouse area we caught plenty of Pacific cod throughout the early eighties while mooching live herring down on the bottom. There appeared to be many more in the ten to fourteen pound range than there is today but that could be attributed to less feed and increasing predation from seals. There is still plenty of smaller ones however and they have really become more of a problem as we troll ever deeper. The hump was almost unfishable for much of last summer due to huge schools of cod that were holding there. My personal belief is that it is the lack of coho that have caused this other predator fish to become so numerous.