Dogfish/downrigger braid

[LiquidGuides01]

I have heard about guys losing cannon balls from schools of dogfish rubbing against the braided line, either fraying the line or sometimes breaking it?
Have any of you guys had the ****** experiance with this?
curious if its common

 

[Fish Assassin]

Ya right.....LOL

 

[lordofthesprings]

i havent heard of it but could see it happening I've seen huge schools of dogfish swim right under the boat thick like herring !

 

[Drewski Canuck]

The abrasiveness of dogfish skin comes from going "against the grain", or in other wirds, sideways laterally or backwards. Dogfish swim forward. They trash your leader when they roll up and try to pull back and forth, causing the forward - backward motion.

Call Mythbusters, but I call myth.

Drewski

 

[Rob H]

If a dogfishes open mouth passes over the line it will cut it very easily (had it happen a couple times with 80 lb. line untangling 2 halibut lines). The skin I don't think will cut the line too easily.

...Rob

 

[LiquidGuides01]

If a dogfishes open mouth passes over the line it will cut it very easily

...Rob

Exactly rob h, thats the only thing I could think of happening.

Found it pretty hard to believe myself.

 

[CatchOfTheDay]

In response to lordofthesprings, I can second that, when we drive the boat at night and loop around into small bays near Keats, we see hundreds swimming with the boat in the flaus fluorescents.

I doubt they could cut the DR line.... They shred plastic line with the death roll, no way they can do that to a wire... However my downriggers are sooo OLD... not sure if the mondern ones still use the same wire.

 

[Rockfish]

I recall reading an article on a third sub-species of Orca that swim offshore and who’s primary diet is sharks. Apparently their teeth are worn down from chewing on shark skin; which tells you how abrasive it can be.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/05/orcas-eat-sharks.html

 

[Libbs]

Caught two doggies on one line a few weeks back! One bit, the other had the line wrapped it's tail. Just to show...yep! They can be thick!

 

[LiquidGuides01]

I was told it happens to braided line, Not a chance it could happen to wire