Dog Fish help

[lokidog]

I hooked one in the side when bottom fishing years ago, it was 42 inches, felt like 60 when fighting it.   

[seth30]

Is barbed hooks okay for them as well?

[lokidog]

Is barbed hooks okay for them as well?

Not sure but if you caught something else, you would have to let it go - go barbless.

[Special T]

Back when i fished i useed to use my steel head pole with a cable halibut leader and chicken... In that same area and it was FUN!

[Jellymon]

If your going just for dogfish make sure you use steel leaders, or else you will lose a lot of hooks and dogfish! They cut line fairly easily.

[Austrian Hunter]

I like catching them, they always have a smile 

[seth30]

Lots of good info and thank you so much for all the tips and help.  Another reason to keep coming back to HuntWA

[mrmoskillz]

When I was 15 I went with a friend to the San Juans and we would throw herring off the shore at night.  Wait five minutes and shine a light in the water.  When you catch the glow in their eyes keep the light on them and they will swim on to shore.
You can also have one guy shine the light and the other guy with a net.  We caught tons and was fun. 

[Rick]

Is barbed hooks okay for them as well?

Barbless hooks required for all species in areas 5-13

[Bowflinger]

Definitely send a chunk of herring to the bottom, reel up a 3-5 turns and jig for them off the bottom. We had doubles and triples until we got tired of catching them. Whatever you do don't club them when you get them on board. You'll have to cut their gills and let them bleed out, if not urine is soaks into the meat ( they pee out their skin). Tie a rope around their tail and hang them over the side of the boat.

[seth30]

We had whitecaps last night and there is no way I would take my jon boat out in those   I will be out after work tonight, and hopefully I can throw a few pics of my own in this thread

[fishinmike]

I like catching them, they always have a smile 

Rene', they don't have those in Yakima now, do they?  Nice pic.

[Austrian Hunter]

I like catching them, they always have a smile 

Rene', they don't have those in Yakima now, do they?  Nice pic.

Hi Mike :-) how are you and Lisa?? 

[Elkrunner]

No special handling, just watch out for the mouth and the spikes by the fins.

I think if they are there, they will bite just about anything.  I've caught them on spoons trolled for salmon and jigs for bottomfish as well as bait.

Two things, they make decent crab bait, just slice open to expose the meat/insides and  they make decent deep fried eating, just bleed and keep cool.  Filet, remove the reddish meat along with the skin and eat.  Not as good as rockfish or lings but better than frozen fish sticks.  It does take a bigger one to get much meat off it.

I have heard this before..never tried it

[fishinmike]

All good over here, fishing has slowed down, going out crabbing today. Give me a shout sometime.