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Title: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: JohnVH on August 31, 2014, 01:10:29 PM: Never seen them ram a pot so bad, one of them was decent size!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-lNTIN91xk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-lNTIN91xk)

Here is the video I did last year, and there werent any dogfish in sight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pM1ApaIIw8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pM1ApaIIw8)
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: Vulcan on August 31, 2014, 01:38:43 PM: :tup: awesome!
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: Mfowl on August 31, 2014, 01:41:43 PM: Cool Vids! Thanks for sharing. I've pulled a crab pot with a dogfish lodged in the side before. Its pretty cool to see all the other fishes that come into the pot as well.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: DoubleJ on August 31, 2014, 03:34:52 PM: What's the glowing thing?
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: hookedonquack20 on August 31, 2014, 04:18:02 PM: I used to catch dogfish by the thousands a couple years ago.I've had dogfish in my crab pots, follow flounder to the boat.One time I got bit by a dogfish fishin and it left a good scar on me and I tell everybody I got bit by a shark.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: bowhunterwa87 on August 31, 2014, 05:33:16 PM: Cool video. Lots of action down there
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: MarkyMark on August 31, 2014, 05:35:56 PM: One more reason to love the Go Pro. That is some great footage.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: cohocrazy on August 31, 2014, 08:30:09 PM: That's a great video! I use the pots and acually had a dogfish in my pot when I pulled it. It's head was wedged in the side when it tried to swim out. I'd post a pic of it if I could figure out how.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: JohnVH on August 31, 2014, 08:59:35 PM: Thanks! I was suprised how aggressive they were, pretty cool to see whats happening down there!
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: lokidog on August 31, 2014, 10:34:34 PM: I had a headless one in a crab pot at Westport once, popped out a bunch of babies in my boat. :o

Cool video, might want to put a weight on the bottom of that gate though. Do you catch more crabs with the LEDs? My brother in WI wanted me to do an experiment to see if a light in the pot would catch more crabs. He is a Dumb A...... so I'm not doing it. I've put sixty or so on my card this summer and don't need to add the headache of a light, but I am curious.

It's interesting that you can hear your motor as you return to the pot.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: C-Money on September 01, 2014, 06:50:00 AM: Nice video! I'd like to used one to see the dang sea lion in action stealing bait. We had a dog fish moving our rings around as well. Had him close to the surface once, but swam off just in time.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: Blacklab on September 01, 2014, 07:33:09 AM: Quote from: MarkyMark on August 31, 2014, 05:35:56 PM
One more reason to love the Go Pro. That is some great footage.

:yeah:
It's on my want list.......... ;)
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: CAM38 on September 04, 2014, 10:27:07 AM: Awesome video, definitely getting a GoPro now, and evaluating the gates on the crab traps. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: JohnVH on September 04, 2014, 10:31:17 AM: Quote from: CAM38 on September 04, 2014, 10:27:07 AM
Awesome video, definitely getting a GoPro now, and evaluating the gates on the crab traps. Any suggestions?

Well, the gate being open is pretty rare, you can see the crab actually pushed it open... some traps have a piece of 'pipe' to hold the doors in place, which would make this impossible. Ive put the gopro down 5 times now, and that was the only time Ive seen it happen.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: NRA4LIFE on September 04, 2014, 11:18:53 AM: Cool video. Has anyone tried to somehow spring load the doors? I've been ciphering on that and how to weight them down too.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: lokidog on September 04, 2014, 09:57:40 PM: Quote from: NRA4LIFE on September 04, 2014, 11:18:53 AM
Cool video. Has anyone tried to somehow spring load the doors? I've been ciphering on that and how to weight them down too.

SOme replacement gates come with two weights as part of them. You could just wrap some lead rope around one of the lowest cross pieces.
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: CAM38 on September 05, 2014, 11:26:05 AM: This just got posted on Q13fox.com, you might be on the news tonite :chuckle:
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Post by: seth30 on September 05, 2014, 11:36:21 AM: Great video!
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: dirty24d on September 05, 2014, 11:54:12 AM: Awesome video thank you for sharing!
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: Becky on September 05, 2014, 02:38:37 PM: Apparently you made the news... scrawled across my Facebook just now. Here come the "poor crab" comments :chuckle:

http://q13fox.com/2014/09/05/watch-whats-it-like-to-be-a-crab-trapped-in-a-pot/ (http://q13fox.com/2014/09/05/watch-whats-it-like-to-be-a-crab-trapped-in-a-pot/)
Title: Re: Ever seen dogfish ramming a crab pot? Gopro in my crab pot in birch bay
Post by: JohnVH on September 05, 2014, 02:39:23 PM: Quote from: Smossy's Girl on September 05, 2014, 02:38:37 PM
Apparently you made the news... scrawled across my Facebook just now. Here come the "poor crab" comments :chuckle:

http://q13fox.com/2014/09/05/watch-whats-it-like-to-be-a-crab-trapped-in-a-pot/ (http://q13fox.com/2014/09/05/watch-whats-it-like-to-be-a-crab-trapped-in-a-pot/)

haha, awesome