Dog Fish on a Tip-up

[Wanderer]

Steve,

I don't know if there's a line class WORLD record for bowfin. Seems like they have one for everything - hence the beginning of Larry's solo career.

I tried to check but I have to be an IGFA member to access that info on their HSOforum.

What the heck?! A state record is a state record. Lets form the MDFA (Minnesota Dog Fish Alliance). We can have members, chapters, tourneys, banquets.... Yah whatever!!!

[50inchpig]

If you get bored with your spring crappie fishing, slide up in the rushes and junk and sight fish them - you can get really close and drop a crappie jig on 'em and it's on!

Probably wouldn't do it if I was a better crappie fisherman but it's fun anyway. Some of them are pretty big.

[GoFish4]

Must be a thing with these dog fish. Caught my first one when I was about 14 on a tip up walleye fishing. I was soo shocked by the site of the thing and my buddies were all laughing and not coming anywhere near me. I cut the line and let it go as I looked at the teeth and knew I wasn't sticking my fingers in there!!

[Tom7227]

If you're really bored go to the DNR HSOforum and type dogfish in the search box and learn a lot. One site said fish farmers are trying to get caviar from them, another said they can live in mud for a considerable time. There is even a claim that a farmer found one while plowing a field that had been flooded.

Sounds like the dogfish are a lot tougher than some of the guys who have posted here.

[bassphish2005]

Woof....Woof... They are one tough customer,and can do real damage to anything they clamp onto with them jaws of theirs.

The MDFA huh...........oh heck why not? I might join up,the sticker on the the back of my suv would go great with the turkey head hitch cover...

[LPCrowRiverFisherman]

I've caught a couple, both around 25". To me not as ugly as you say they are. The ones with the green, blue color on their head are kind of neat to see, that's one kind I have caught. You would almost think they are related to a Northern by all the slime on them. I have a picture of one I caught and there is slime hanging off the fish in the picture.

[Traxxx]

I was guiding a well off guy from Florida one day when he hooked into about a eight pounder. It made some good runs, thought he had a northern on. He gets it to the boat and I net it. I grabbed it under the gills and started to unhook the spinnerbait when all of a sudden, it does a backflip, out of my hand and lands in the botom of the boat. When it hit the floor, it proceeded to release everything it had eaten over the last week (not out of its mouth) all over the guys legs (wearing shorts). He asked if I charged extra for that...priceless.

[Mn walleye]

Be sure you keep your fingers away! I seen them actually lunge toward me when lying on the shore,check out the teeth on one geez!