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Can anyone recommend any waters where there are tons of dogfish? I know of a couple lakes around the MN River where there are a lot, but you cant take boats out there. This may seem like a dumb question, but those things fight really hard. Thanks.

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Can anyone recommend any waters where there are tons of dogfish? I know of a couple lakes around the MN River where there are a lot, but you cant take boats out there. This may seem like a dumb question, but those things fight really hard. Thanks.

Gifford Lake aka Depot in Chaska has alot of them. You can also launch a boat there...a small one.

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Not dumb at all they are a blast! My buddy caught one on the croix that was a couple oz short of the state record but why wreck a night of fishing by rushing to a scale and finding the fish lost oz falling short of the record. Love to see those big ones over 10 pounds!

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Dogfish are great! I love those things. I rarely catch them though, maybe once every 5 years at most.

I caught one in once while dragging a leech on a lindy rig on walleye opener. Thought I had a 15 pound or better walleye, to be sure. Well, it ended up being like a 6 lb dogfish. They can sure fight for their size.

I heard that they could breath air, so I figured I'd test it out. We drained all the water out of the livewell after fishing, and I left him in the livewell almost 18 hours without water overnight (remember, this was mid-May, and it wasn't hot out by any means). I released him off the dock the next day when we went back to the same lake, and he acted like nothing happened. Crazy.

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where there are tons of dogfish?

No small order. Tons?

Small rivers with dams. At the dam.

You are right about a boat. fish fight much better when they can dive deep. When shore fishing you keep moving them shallower and it take away from the fight.

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That's rights "tons" of them. They're just mean and ugly and lots of fun. I had one fling blood all over my boat last summer after it slipped out of my hands and began thrashing around like some crazy heavy metal fan.

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