Fishing reports for March

[Coop]

The fishing season is right around the corner. As we get to the end of this month, we may see a few passing by us as they swim towards thier spawning grounds.

Feel free to post your reports here, fish or no fish.

[ocsnapper]

Hit the beach Thursday for a few hours not much to say on catching but I was able to use some fresh bait in the form of blue fish that I found washed up in the surf.

[Steve]

Even a washed-up Blue sounds promising.
Might get that SE blow this weekend?

[AISURFFISH]

so whats the chance this storm blows right on through tonight and we get to fish a little calmer water by late saturday?

was out today at the inlet just glancing and it sure looked fishy...

[Coop]

Water temps have jumped a few degrees since last week. We are approaching the upper 40's.

Only bad thing is we may have blow out tides Sunday.

[youngfisha]

headed out on thursday with some fresh bunker. we got out at about 4:30pm and only fished for about an hour and 1/2 used one bunker got 1 spiney dogfish and that was the only hit.

[ffemtreed]

Fished a couple hours today down near the bull pen. NADA!!!

Bait went untouched. Wind was horrible!

[mdram]

hit the bulkhead for a few hours saturday tossing a stingsilver and soaking sandfleas. got skunked, saw 2 short tog landed. the guys on the end had a stringer of tog when i got there, musta missed the bite.

i still cant figure why some guys use 10-12 foot poles here

[Coop]

Originally Posted by mdram

i still cant figure why some guys use 10-12 foot poles here

I would assume the length makes them good tog poles from the shore.

[Dave]

hit AI this afternoon, it was nice getting back out there for the first time in 4 months. Only threw out 1 line cause the surf was really rough, waves were at least 10 feet tall at times and the current was pullin hard to the south. I couldnt hold at all with 12oz. But it was still nice gettin out again.

[ocsnapper]

Hit the beach for a few hours today not much to say but a lot of doggies in the 3 foot range. The oddest thing was when I had a skate on the line and a doggie wrapped up in the line.

[ffemtreed]

Fished Yesterday for a couple hours! And it was a pure Dogfish Blitz!

Couldn't keep them off the line. Tried different distances, tried heads and they still kept coming. I left right before it started to get dark so I wouldn't have to to deal with the super blitz that was sure to follow.

No hints of any striped ones around yet though.

[Steve]

Someone has GOT to eat one of these guys!
Coop said he had one year before.
Figure out a minimum size to keep so it would be worth cleaning.
Details on cleaning and cooking.

I think we are passing up a good opportunity.
After all, Skate is delicious, why not Dogfish?

[ffemtreed]

I had a guy who was fishing maybe 200 or 300 yards from me walk down after he saw me throwing them back one after another. He asked me to keep them for him because he loves eating them. His goal for the day was to fill a big cooler with doggies.

Well by the end of the day mission accomplished!

Originally Posted by Steve

Someone has GOT to eat one of these guys!
Coop said he had one year before.
Figure out a minimum size to keep so it would be worth cleaning.
Details on cleaning and cooking.

I think we are passing up a good opportunity.
After all, Skate is delicious, why not Dogfish?

[ocsnapper]

Originally Posted by Steve

Someone has GOT to eat one of these guys!
Coop said he had one year before.
Figure out a minimum size to keep so it would be worth cleaning.
Details on cleaning and cooking.

I think we are passing up a good opportunity.
After all, Skate is delicious, why not Dogfish?

I have eaten a few doggies nice white meat. For size I go with the larger ones makes cleaning easier if you get one at less 3 1/2' you can either steak them out or filet them out all depends on the size of the doggie. As for cooking most times all I do is some butter, lemon and some salt and pepper. You can season it almost anyway you want.