Catching spiny dogfish in Vancouver in 2025

[RiverBoy]

Your thread is giving me a really good idea for a screenplay. I think I’m going to call it “ silence of the dogfish”
it rubs the lotion on the shark skin or it gets the hose again!

 

[Tinny]

Thanks. Definitely on my list of places to check. Absolutely will be trying barbless hooks - shark anatomy makes them much more of a hassle to unhook than most other fish. Is scenting bait in blood or fish guts recommended? I butcher fish pretty often so I can probably collect some refuse beforehand. I've skinned plenty of small sharks in the past thankfully because doing that for the first time was pain beyond cognition.

Any scent will draw them in. Even just a bit of smelly jelly that you can buy at a fishing store. They are not picky.