Mystery eel hit

[JLH]

The many dogfish I have caught didn't have teeth. More like plates in their mouths for grinding things up. If it was just beat up and mutilated I’d say dogfish but the many puncture wounds seem to say it was something else. I’m talking about smooth doggies not sure about the spiny ones I don’t think I have ever caught one of those but didn't think they had teeth either.

[tlapinski]

Whatever it was definately had some sort of teeth, not the sandpaper type ones a striper or dogfish have left when I have caught them. The bite radius on the half moon shape was probably the size of my fist .

Bryan - Do you know if the sandtigers come into LI Sound? Looking at this picture of one, that kind of mouth could definately produce the results I saw. Now I am kind of happy I dropped it as I was about waste deep on a rock about 50'+ from shore....

[JackK]

Yeah, smooths have the plates, but spinys have teeth more like a bandsaw... Actually, the more I look at it, the puncture marks don't sound like they could have been made by a dog... But the half-moon shaped bites do. wierd

[RIROCKHOUND]

As far as I know, yes.
My buddies wife works for NMFS studying them, and they fish for them in Delaware Bay, Hudson etc.. looking for Juv's, I'm sure thye cokme in to LIS, NBay etc...