Now, did it really take “20 minutes” to reel in? I have a little bit of a hard time with that, because part of what makes most anglers uninterested in these sharks is their rolling, lolling, twisting sack-of-potatoes kind of fight. More power to her if that’s the case, and I must admit I’ve never seen a dogfish as big as hers. When I hear “shark fishing,” I, like most saltwater anglers, think makos and threshers, but the story led me to believe Ganster qualified the dogfish as an acceptable “sharking” target. Or if she was targeting other shark species and just happened to catch a world-beater doggy. In the piece, Ganster says she was very excited about the catch because she hadn’t been shark fishing in 12 years, which leaves me wondering if she did, in fact, book charters specifically for less popular inshore shark species like dogfish. Ganster ended up landing an 18-pound smooth dogfish, beating the previous Maryland state record by just shy of 3 pounds, which is very impressive and cool. Ganster and her husband loaded up on bluefish and black sea bass, and then sent a chunk of that fresh bluefish to the bottom for sharks. He ended up cancelling the trip but changed his mind at the very last minute. As the October fishing date neared, Forman was not too excited about the weather forecast. Going to the DogsĪccording to the story, Ganster had booked a shark charter aboard Captain John Forman’s Bottom Bouncer out of Ocean City, Maryland, months in advance. I honestly don’t know any saltwater angler that leaves the dock specifically for some hot dog action, so I was surprised when I read this article on the website of Chesapeake Bay Magazine about Fay Ganster and her new state-record dogfish. They can be so thick at times, you can’t get away from them. They are a bait-stealing, jig-grabbing scourge that does nothing but stop my hooks from getting in the mouths of sea bass or stripers or tautog or whatever else I’m trying to catch-and spending huge amounts of gas money to target. Thirty-three years later, nothing pisses me off more than reeling in a doggie. As a 7-year-old obsessed with Jaws and great whites, it was the most thrilling moment of my life. The first fish I ever caught on a boat in the ocean was a dogfish, a.k.a.
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