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Originally Posted by DZ
Hooks and dogs don't mix - young dogs especially. Watch your backcasts! Make sure they don't go after your fish when you're landing them. And they really like dead stuff washed up on the beach.
DZ
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Originally Posted by Ed B
I have experience with other peoples dogs. Don't bring them fishing. As DZ said, hooks, dogs and flapping fish are a very bad mix.
I was at Chatham inlet early one season around 84 or 85 and there were a lot of small pollack in the surf. On the dropper I hooked a small pollack and it was flapping around on the sand. Someones dog comes racing over barking at the fish and gets one treble hook of my plug in his leg. He then instinctively bites the plug and gets the other treble in his mouth. So the dog's mouth and leg are now attached to my plug and the dog is letting out these blood curdling howls for everyone on the beach to hear. No way I was going to hold down a strange dog and try to unhook him and put myself into new danger. I stood there and waited for the owner to come down and get his dog unhooked, which he eventually did, but it was not a good scene.
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Originally Posted by Swimmer
Not the golden I have now, but the last one would go in the water, and I'd have to swim out to get her. Then when I would be swimming toward her she thought I was coming to play with her. I mean she would swim out 100 to 150 from the dry beach and stay there for 15 to 20 minutes. I finally bought 200' of light run wire with me so I could pull her back in. God she loved it.
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That's exactly the stuff I would be afraid of. He's well behaved, but with a flopping fish on the beach I could see all bets being off.