Just fried up some dogfish from last summer, yummy! Have you?

[Special T]

Many years ago i used to jig pieces of crab bait on a steel braided halibut leader while keeping an eye on my crab pots from a distance (had a few stolen off Camano Island) It was a lot of fun on a steal head rod. Never ate any tho.

[Skillet]

We got in to a huge school of them on an aggressive bite on Possession early last summer, and since the fishing was tough for the kings we just decided to have fun with them.  Switched over to jiggin gear and even caught them on bare pink maribou jigs 20' below the boat.  Will keep some of the bigger ones to try out in the future if we do that again. 

[deltaops]

Went out last summer and caught quit a few doggies. First thing I did was cut the head off, gutted them and let them bleed out in the salt water. Then threw them in the cooler. When we got home I rinsed them one more time, fileted them and off to the freezer. If done properly they are good eats for sure.

Some people already commented, they use them in fish and chips in England and even in some places in the states at times. It is possible you have ate it and never realized it.

I usually go after them when we are crabbing. What I would like to do is find a good spot for some perch somewhere around Tacoma Narrows area. 

[sebek556]

This used to be my every other weekend activity throw out the crab pot and catch dogfish for fun while waiting. The first one we ate, bad bad bad! But we didn't bleed it out. One weekend a old timer asked us why we not keeping any, then told us the trick to preparing them. Cut off head, and gut soon as you decide to keep it. Let in the salt water till your ready to go. Fillet and soak in a vinegar brine, it's supposed to neutralize the urine in the meat. Then cook as you wish. After learning this, lots of dogfish have been on my plate.

[jackmaster]

Loki, if you ever want a dog fish super hot spot let me know, you would have to drive to sequim and have a boat, but while your crab pots are soaking you can catch huge doggies as fast as you can get your bait in the water, I rig my wife up with braided cable and a chunk of squid and she has a blast

[kisfish]

When I was in North Carolina they used to have dogfish tournaments. There were allot of guys that bled, filleted the fish. They claim its great. The next one I catch I will be cooking it up.

[PolarBear]

We use to have a dogfish derby on the 4th of July every year with the cousin's. We pushed an oyster scow to Steamboat Island and usually caught several dozen.  There was a guy from the Philipines and one from Cambodia that would take them off of our hands and loved to eat them.  They both soaked them in either salt water or buttermilk before cooking them up.  We tried them deep fried but wasn't a fan of it.   I wish more folks would eat them and get the numbers down.

[wildweeds]

It's been 30 years since I seen my old mans buddy to it,so I may be missing something but WITH a gloved hand grab by tail,and stand on the fins with each foot and pull up.If I remember right the fins and guts stay on the deck for a speed clean similar to birds.

[DoubleJ]

Going to target them this next summer for sure.  The kids love catching them and we're going to try to eat a few

[Sumpnneedskillin]

NPR just did a story about this the other day
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/02/255547215/why-the-cod-on-cape-cod-now-comes-from-iceland

"This undersection here is called the belly flap — those go to Germany, and they get smoked. They take the skin off of this, and you have the dogfish backs — they're big in Europe, and they'll chop it up into cutlets with the meat in it, that they'll fry it that way," he says.

[SkookumHntr]

 

[LndShrk]

Gross..

 

[lokidog]

Loki, if you ever want a dog fish super hot spot let me know, you would have to drive to sequim and have a boat, but while your crab pots are soaking you can catch huge doggies as fast as you can get your bait in the water, I rig my wife up with braided cable and a chunk of squid and she has a blast

Thanks for the invite, but if I'm driving that far with the boat, I'll head to the coast and put some rockfish and lings in the freezer.  They are still better than dogfish, even though the doggies are decent.