I caught a number of them last year about half the size of the ones I've been catching this year. This year they are about a foot long. I'm thinking they must be slow growing as well.
Bio's have any info on this?
I remember catching them by the cooler full and averaging seven or eight pounds with an occasional one in the teens...that was back in the eighty's. Then I was told the trawlers dragged them all and that was the last I saw of them.