Todd,
Ya, I remember those true cod. I used to catch them all winter when was a kid. They got hammered from every direction. The draggers hit them pretty hard. I remember several years ago WDFW tried to close a trawl season in the straits to protect true cod. The draggers took WDFW to court to re-open the season. The judge ruled in favor of the draggers. There was also a set gillnet season that hit them hard near Port Townsend. At the same time cod were incidental catch in the set gillnet,longline and trawl dogfish fisheries in the sound. Then there was the sport season that pounded them on the spawning area around Agate Pass. I can remember hundreds of boats fishing them everyday in the winter season over there. What a shame they are fished out.