Ok maybe a bit of an exaggeration…..or maybe not.
Suffice it to say that my latest trip over to the south west of Scotland didn’t exactly go to plan. Me and Mike were hoping to get amongst some decent Thornback Rays and maybe the odd Smoothound which have featured in recent reports, but alas – we were completely dogged out by the end of the day.
I lost count to be honest – with baits spending little more than 5 minutes in the water before the dogs found them. I chuckled to Mike that it was like reeling in a bunch of bananas, with 2 Dogfish at a time on a single pennel rig on multiple casts. On more than one occasion one or both of the fish weren’t even hooked, just wrapped up in the rig following wrestling match to see who could swallow the bait fastest.
I’ll not bother embellishing the details as there’s only so much interesting to write about when it comes to Dogfish. I did manage a solitary Dab which obviously had some identity issues.
Hopefully the next session is more productive!
