dogfish out of OI

[dubb]

We ran offshore week before last to tuna fish. We had our bluefin and decided to go tile fishing. I ran up north of the point to some drops that have always produced. On our first drop we pulled up 2 dogfish with 4 or 5 following those up. We tried four different areas that had all the sharks you could ever want. My little boy thought it was great, I was not quite as excited as he was.

So my question is will these sharks leave or have they chased away the tilefish from these particular areas? Do I need find new drops?

[Tuna Meltdown]

Not to sound like an ass but welcome to what we in the northeast have been plagued by for years. The dogfish have pretty much ruined the chunk bite giant tuna fisherie up here. Sounds like they are becoming a problem for you guys aswell.

[capt. jakeg]

They will absolutely run the tiles off your spots and sea bass and anything else that swims. God forbid you actually did hook a tile out there. If there was one dumb enough to still live amongst all them doggies, he'd get to the top with all sorts of little pieces missing.

NMFS needs to do something about the dogshark population explosion. They are eating everything. They are too concerned with closing down fisheries that are already healthy though.

[The Codfather]

oH NO NOT THE ENDANGERED SPINY DOGFISH











kill them all.

[gameover]

we dropped two weeks ago in about the same area, a little deep (40 fathoms) took us awhile to get 8 tiles. lots of dogsharks in with them. I would think that they would start to leave soon but I dont really know??

I know that we did have better luck in 40fa when we would drift shallow the tiles seemed to disapear.

Taylor