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.

 

[CalCom]

As i understand, there was quite a fishery for dogfish in years past, mostly for the British market. Nothing like the dogfish migration to screw up your electronics.

 

[Howzer]

I'd be leery of eating anything caught in or near False Creek. You do know the history of the area?
I once dropped a Marinco power adapter overboard (the yellow ones) and 'fished it out 30 mins later, the yellow adapter was permanently dyed brown on the side where it lay on the bottom.

 

[teeth monolith]

Just got back from Granville Island public dock, lotta stuff biting at herring but nothing hooked on. I was using this old silicon false - cephalopod setup I had and this metal leader I just put together today. Definitely should've been camping just one rod instead of having several out. I've also had several pieces of herring stolen off my hook and this one half - herring that's bitten once again in half.


What I was running


Something took all the meat off this herring chunk, left only the vertebrae and ribs


Herring head that's been bitten(should've checked for lost teeth!)

 

[trophywife]

feed the hook through and zip tie the herring.. if you can get salmon parts from fish store you will not be spending good money on herring.

chunks of the head or a whole head work great and the small critters cant strip it off.

maybe sharks wont eat farmed salmon?