When MIGHT the dogfish leave for the fall/winter? - The Hull Truth

thundra · 11-13-2007, 09:10 AM

Is there a water temperature that the dogfish cannot tolerate that the cod can? Will it get too cold for them to stick around so I might catch, hook, snag less of them?

AlloyToy · 11-13-2007, 09:12 AM

I've found that around 48/49 degree mark there are much less. Can't be far away....

Harpoon · 11-13-2007, 09:37 AM

Last January they were still thick.

junior11 · 11-13-2007, 12:05 PM

the days where they left are over...

twofinbluna · 11-13-2007, 02:18 PM

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junior11 - 11/13/2007 11:05 AM

the days where they left are over...

I hate to say it, but I think that that is a real possibility. We saw a small window of a few weeks in June when a bunch of the places off our part of Maine had less dogs...but that did not last long at all and they have invaded and stayed ever since. Such a plague.

north coast · 11-13-2007, 03:04 PM

I did a few haddock trips last feb.-march where I didn't see any ,not so any other time of year.
you can't fish for cod(with a fishing rod) after dec.1 anyway. only the draggers and gillnetters with a federal permit with days at sea can,(makes alot of sense huh?)

loligo · 11-13-2007, 03:46 PM

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north coast - 11/13/2007 2:04 PMI did a few haddock trips last feb.-march where I didn't see any ,not so any other time of year. you can't fish for cod(with a fishing rod) after dec.1 anyway. only the draggers and gillnetters with a federal permit with days at sea can,(makes alot of sense huh?)

What on earth are you talking about?

I'll be out there every day in December thats good and I fish with a fishing pole.

You must mean rec fishing in GOM?- You can still take 2 fish a day in MA, all winter.

DDrew · 11-13-2007, 06:35 PM

I took this shot on my last trip out to Stellwagon. The picture doesn't do the problem justice. There was many more just below the surface. The dogs went on for a good 3 miles. Thank God for stainless props- I must of killed a thousand of em. At one point, I had to stop to dislodge one from between the lower unit and transom- was spraying water everywhere..

junior11 · 11-13-2007, 06:45 PM

ha... drew thats terrible... I love it... that picture is pretty good... imagine the days when people used to see that but it was all sicle fins and tails, not dogfish dorsals.... I can't believe you had to take a dismantled dogfish out of your outboard, very impressive... northcoast, I have caught them in every month of the year in decent numbers, sadly to say, they definitely don't leave, although at some points there are less than others