I'll start off by saying, if it comes from the ocean, ...:wavey: I'LL EAT IT!!...:buds:

That being said, I caught a 49"...17lb fish the other night....

One would think, "huh?..that doesn't sound right".

It does if it was a sand shark/dogfish. . :splat:

Here's my question, has anyone ever tried eating it?

I was thinking I should have cut some fillets off the shoulder/side area. I mean...it's fish right? How bad can it taste??....


Anybody??.....Karl??....I know you've had seal :D ....but hows about dogfish???...

Actually had dogfish a couple times and enjoyed it. I find that it tastes like other shark meat... a lot more texture and a meatier flavor than normal white fish flesh. Apparently sometimes the uric acid can build up and give it an ammonia taste/smell, but this has never happened to me.

I used to see boats off loading totes of dogfish in Chatham. Some one said they sold it as "fish 'n chips" in England:huh:

I used to see boats off loading totes of dogfish in Chatham. Some one said they sold it as "fish 'n chips" in England:huh:

Thats correct.

I could never eat anything that pisses thru it own skin :yak:

go ahead if you think it's edible

:yak:

That's a freaking huge dogfish.

Seriously, that may be the biggest one I've ever heard of - and unfortunately, I've caught hundreds of the miserable creatures.

Fish and Chips Fodder for the Limeys.
Never Eaten one, (that I know of, ;) )
altho, I've been told you don't want anything too close to the head...
for the aboce reasons...

Seals, taste like Plover.

;)

Not sure you got a dog fish with out pic's ///
sounds a little 2 big !
Maybe a brown shark ? First off a brown shark is one of the best eating fish that you can catch from the beach. Right now alot of guys set up on east beaxh on the vineyard to catch them.
And they do grow very large and will hit anything from a eel to a metal lure.
I have ate them several times and to my surprise they are really a great tasting fish.
VB

South Cape beach has brown sharks who like mackerel chunks late at night :hihi:

It was definately a dogfish...I was into em' for a couple of hours, tide changed...bass showed up for about 1/2 hour, then the dogs came right back around again....... I agree....this was by far the biggest one I've ever encountered...you guys actually got me thinkin'....

I did a little research...

Dogfish "is a type of small shark that lives in the ocean. There are about 70 species of dogfish. Most measure less than 5 feet (1.5 meters) long. However, the largest dogfish, the Greenland shark, can reach a length of over 20 feet (6 meters)".

I guess I just happened to get a bigg'en...:cheers:


It was a bit of a scare though...:uhoh: ....standing waist-high in the surf in pea-soup fog...hearing the thrashing of the fish just ahead of me....thinking BASS!!....turning the head-lamp on to lip-em'....:shocked: .....then extending my rod and backing up real quick until I verified it was a dogfish and NOT some other toothy species of shark.

49-inches would be big for a spiny dogfish but on the average size for a smooth dogfish. Both species are quite abundant in our waters.

I've caught dogfish/sand sharks up to 5 1/2 feet long, how do I know?, held from the tail it was at my eyes while the nose of the fish was at the ground and laid on my deck, it touched both gunwales and I have a 7' 10" beam. In the deeper rips and last summer north of Nantucket, we had a blast catching the things drifting whole snappers on 17lb test, most were over 40" long and fought better than bluefish or striped bass. I know, the elitists out there will snub their nose at anything but s-b but catching is catching and fun is fun.

From what I have learned, one needs to skin the fish right after catching so the fluids in the fish/what essentially is the anitfreeze for the fish does not leech back in to its flesh, that and gutting it right after catching. For the people I know that eat the things, they love it, the flesh is whiter than any other fish and the consistency after cooking is not unlike swordfish, after all, I've found sea robin, scup, squid and all the other stuff that bass/bluefish eat so . . .

Dogfish= McFish sandwich or as my grandfather calls them... McDonalds trout. I bet most of us have eaten them at one time or another. Something tells me they isn't bein skinned immediately for McD's.:gu:

I believe Macado's is pollack

I used to catch them commercially in gill nets. We didn't ice em' gut em' or do much of anything with them but throw them on the deck. Beware of the spines on their fins, if you get cut by them, they get infected quick. There were days when we were cod fishing that we would get a 10,000 lb bycatch of doggies and throw them all overboard.

If you get a pregnant one, squeeze her stomach and the pups are great bait for S-B... anyone ever use those? If you hang out by the fish pier when they are unloading, you'll hammer em with the pups.

South Cape beach has brown sharks who like mackerel chunks late at night :hihi:

Craigville beach at nite is another hotspot .

About all they harvest from dogfish are the fins(to japan for shark fin cartilage) and the belly flap(to the UK for F&C). The rest is fertilizer.

Bloo,

If you make a stew out if it, I'm in.(I'll even peel the potato's)

Craigville beach at nite is another hotspot .

Falmouth heights as well late night / early dark morning ,chunks, 65# braid to a 200 lb steel leader, 9/0 to 12/0 heavy bait hooks :love:

Rick...

Maybe add some dogfish to an already decent tasting chowda ...eh?...:heybaby:

I was chunking a new spot on the RI coast last night and once the sun went down it was dog 'o rama!

I must have found the kennel.

The area looked fishy. I picked up a short at dusk, minutes after getting there, but then it was pure dogs.

Im just getting back into the surf thing so Im always looking for advice.

What do the dogfish tell you...if anything.

Should I have moved away as fast as my legs could carry me?
(as much fun as crawling over bowling balls on a moonless night is)

Should I have adjusted my presentation?

Wait them out?

cut bait or cut wrists?

I think my pogies had been feeding on milkbones.