well i disagree with everything the guy above me says,,,learn how to fish the ocean and read the weather and a 22ft center console can catch you some pretty big cod out on the stellwagen bank..i fish up here in the gulf of maine and have been since the early eighties..the fishing was great, then bad, but now nmfs strict regs has brought the haddock back,and some very big cod once again can be jigged up on jeffries ledge..it has been closed for a while now,,but you can even catch big cod closer to shore than before i own a 30ft now but i still check the bouy reports read what there saying and use common sense