when we are having a slow day and people want to pull some fish, go to the dogs
upon landing, gut,rinse, place in cooler with brine and ice.
cube up and deep fry, or place in smoker with skin on for 3hrs @180 degrees
really are very good eating
nothing on earth like the face of some kid who just caught a 8lb maneater, and they can take it home and eat it too.
we don't waste them. soon they will be the only thing to catch that does not have limits and sizes attached.![]()
I am indifferent to dogfish as I don't really bottom-bump too much, but I hate an fn Barricuda with every ounce of my being...
Okay I can't stay out of this one.
True story: 3 years ago, early August, 5:30 in the morning I am steaming the (insert name of my boat here) across Cape Cod Bay from Sesuit Harbor to The Pamet river area to do some tuna wishing. The water is glass flat calm and around Billingsgate my dad taps my shoulder and points to hundreds of small fins on the surface. On further inspection we see that they are thousands of dogfish laying motionless right on the surface. I still to this day have no idea what they were doing there and don't much care. They made awsome targets for my boat traveling at about 40 knots. I ran them over by the hundreds. They were bouncing off the hull the outdrive and every now and then one would meet the prop at 5500 RPM. That was funny. So after 25 to 30 minutes of that we finally made it to our tuna location only to have all five of my very live bluefish attacked and ravenged by more dogfish. Thats just the start of what I have done to control the population. I have tried the cutting of the spines method but that does not stop them from grabing your lure on the very next drop. I know I have released one with the spines cut off only to catch it ten minutes later! So now I practice catch and kill.
Last edited by Tuna Meltdown; 05-03-2007 at 05:25 PM.
That's a great story, very funny dude. The next time you see that, get on the bow and while the boat is idoling, try free gaffing them- it's actuallly pretty challenging![]()
Shoefish, its pretty funny you mentioned that because on many occasions including that day I have thrown my cockpit harpoon at them. It is really a fun sport. All you need to do is drop ANYTHING with a hook to the bottom in cape cod bay and it will be bitten instantly by a doggie. You real him up and bash his brains out on the gunwale and slice and dice his belly and hang him on a rope for chum. Then all his canibalistic friends will be drawn to his carcass like moths to a light and you can then practice your harpoon/gaffing skills. Great sport I wish we make tournaments for that.![]()
Bro if you can harpoon a dogfish, you've got some skills! I want to see this when we fish the Cuttyhunk!
My girlfriend is sitting over my shoulder threatening me with no sex for life if I ever kill another dogfish/sandshark/miscellaneous animal unless it has eaten my arm. I can only kill the animals SHE likes to eat. And I have to say sorry for it after. There go my balls... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It's worth it though, she's awesome.... in bed
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