Fizzing Fish

[Johnsfolly]

21 hours ago, Will S. said:

Interesting.. Never the less, I am going to start fishing deeper waters (See if I can find them, cause im bored.)

Congrats on catching my kind of bass!

[Johnsfolly]

19 hours ago, Devan S. said:

people sometimes put them in an upside down weighted clothes basket and send em back down. 

This procedure albeit with a slightly different system is one of the recommended ways of releasing those deep water bottom fish that @Quillback was talking about. Actually his moniker i believe - a quillback rockfish as well as other rockfish. 

To answer @fishinwrench a little further, not all fish have air or swim bladders. For example, a shark pulled from the depths would not have this issue since it is primarily their livers that provide buoyancy and not a gas filled bladder.

[liphunter]

21 hours ago, Will S. said:

Interesting.. Never the less, I am going to start fishing deeper waters (See if I can find them, cause im bored.)

Love a fish with attitude!!!

[Quillback]

12 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

 

 

@Quillback

 

@fishinwrench For example, a shark pulled from the depths would not have this issue since it is primarily their livers that provide buoyancy and not a gas filled bladder.

Always wondered why sharks would not bloat, now I know.  Used to run into big schools of spiny dogfish while salmon fishing in Puget Sound.  Bait stealing thugs, I hated those things.  Never did try and clean one and eat it, but I hear in Europe they are sold in fish and chip shops.  

[Johnsfolly]

4 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Used to run into big schools of spiny dogfish while salmon fishing in Puget Sound.  Bait stealing thugs, I hated those things.  Never did try and clean one and eat it, but I hear in Europe they are sold in fish and chip shops. 

I just want to catch one .

I also have heard about them being used for fish and chips. I have eaten a couple of the sustainable shark species. I liked them. We didn't keep the spiny dogfish that my wife caught back in March. Maybe I'll keep one and let you know how it is if I actually can keep one on the hook.

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

I just want to catch one .

I also have heard about them being used for fish and chips. I have eaten a couple of the sustainable shark species. I liked them. We didn't keep the spiny dogfish that my wife caught back in March. Maybe I'll keep one and let you know how it is if I actually can keep one on the hook.

They were annoyingly abundant in the sound.  

I have eaten blue shark, they used to sell it in the stores when I lived in Mass.  It was pretty good grilled.

[Johnsfolly]

4 minutes ago, Quillback said:

have eaten blue shark, they used to sell it in the stores when I lived in Mass.  It was pretty good grilled.

I like mako, but their populations were in a state of decline. The Atlantic sharpnose sharks we caught in VA were both abundant and delicious.

[Gavin]

Wasn't the spiny dogfish used in the Led Zepplin "Mud Shark" incident?

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

They were annoyingly abundant in the sound.  

I have eaten blue shark, they used to sell it in the stores when I lived in Mass.  It was pretty good grilled.

 

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

I like mako, but their populations were in a state of decline. The Atlantic sharpnose sharks we caught in VA were both abundant and delicious.

 

Brought home some fat hammerhead steaks from a trip in the gulf. I didn't catch it but it was a 7 footer and had plenty to go around. I grilled them and they were delicious. 

[Johnsfolly]

6 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

 

 

Brought home some fat hammerhead steaks from a trip in the gulf. I didn't catch it but it was a 7 footer and had plenty to go around. I grilled them and they were delicious. 

Hammerheads and their kin are just a cool fish. Closest I came to catching one was my brother landing a small bonnethead shark.