Anyone in NJ remember these?

Used to catch these by the bucketful in the 70's & 80's fishing the Casino pier in Seaside every fall & winter. Then they were gone.(Casino pier is gone now too!) I hadn't caught one since 1990.
 

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At first, I thought it Looked like a Kingfish, but the more I looked, I pretty sure it's a Tommy Cod, which I haven't seen around here since the 70's maybe, hard to remember what they looked like. You are so right, we use to catch them on every cast, now just like the Whiting, gone. I could be wrong on both counts.
 
I'm looking for something else to fish for here in NJ.

" Why when I was a boy "......let's just say 15-30 years ago, we caught plenty.

Winter flounder, fluke, weakies, tog, cod, kingfish, blowfish and blues in good numbers without electronics either. Ok so Stripers were scarce in the 70's but we caught 50 winter flounder from wooden dories pushed by the 9.5 hp Rude.
 
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