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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 . . .
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