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Fantastic fish and a real shame to see them all dead. Large Cod like Sharks keep the reefs clean and healthy. I fish Cal wide every 2 weeks and havn't caught one in 2 years but i'm sure going to carry a large weight to get them back down from now on. After the first couple I probably would have moved. You used to see pictures of guys holding up large Murray cod at one stage now they are a rareity.
Sometimes there is nothing you can do. I have been getting a fair few on charter lately and trying to release the big ones. Even with a 10lb downrigger bomb on my deck winch or downrigger depending on the depth I am in attached to them via a 20lb breakaway or whatever, I am getting the odd one with more than 10lbs of bouyancy. It is then a fine line getting a D6 track pin with the downrigger bomb matched to a line that they can break once down at an appropriate depth where they repressurise themselves. 30lb line sometimes snaps just under the water then they float up and float off just out of range. One still floated a track pin attached to a downrigger bomb. Sad to see but that is fishing.
We had caught some nice pearl pearch at the same spot a week before this trip so i was only using a set of gang hooks with a whole squid with an 80lb leader and a running sinker .
the flesh around the head is by far the best on them!, eyes, checks, throats, its a grade table fare.
these larger fish need to be dead a while, like 3-4 days in ice box, they have to go through a rigormortis stage and expel the lactic acid build up from the flesh.
if there bled immediatly and thrown on ice, then fillited 3-4 days later, they are as tasty as the littlier ones!
best still to try and revive them, but if not possible, eat 'em up!
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