Doxy

Cod report for several quick afternoon trips out of M'head, Wed Sat & Sun:

Wed; Keeper Cod inside of Egg Rk, Nahant - 35' water. Marked fish & bait balls. Birds fishing all around.
Sat. smalls betw/ Halfway Rk & Tinkers Ledge. slow fishing
Sun: several keepers and smalls, goosefish & dogfish, same area as Sat.

Surface temps 46 to 50, weather good, seas flat to choppy. Good to be out fishing.

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danno40

Out of Gloucester Sat. Seas 3 to 5 water @ 46

Had to try Saturday night ledge, after those reports. I did not run into any silver cod there. five mile east of there was a differnt story. Fat little cod ,the biggest 30 " was caught on bait. same with haddock got some with the jig but the biggie was with the bait. 3 guys 3.5 hours 30 fish 21 cod 9 had no cusk.

Harpoon

did you say dogfish ?

tell me that was a typo.

Doxy

Sorry, read it and weep. I felt f---in nauseous when I saw it surface. They're around, but not too many - yet.

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maineguides

how big were the goose fish you were catching?

i cant believe the dogs are allready showing up! Last year i was catching them trolling for bluefish at 5 knots! inshore!!!!!!
i just pray this year wont be like last year.


capt. jim

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Doxy

Last year we could walk across the dogs. On a couple trips they were swarming the boat & that was chunking without a chumline. It was awful. I looked into fishing them comercially, but I think the market rate was something like .10 or .20/pound. Also, I've heard that they excete through thier skin and have to be handled/processed differently. The only dealer I saw was in southern MA. It's hard to believe NOAA Fisheries considers the dogfish stock in trouble.

One goose & it was about 12"-14".

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Sashamy

THey don't call the stock in trouble...they say the ratrio between male and female dogs are off...not enough mature females...so much off that there is a zero fishery for them now...by the way they never left they were caught almost for the whole winter...I was catching them in early april by heard they were caught as early as february...oh well just have to live with them

Doxy

Good info, Sashamy. Didn't know that - thanks

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Vectorfisher

Dogfish are around, two weeks ago pulled on from the bank on a clam codfishing