Doggies

[A Norfolk Boy]

corned beef being 'corned dog'.

[A Norfolk Boy]

Nice one Westie, or something really exotic and unrealistic, like 'caught a nice codling on some top quality affordable lugworm'.

[Westie]

Norfolk Boy. I agree that that day will never come.

 

We might soon see bait being offered at 19.9% APR with easy weekly payments. We might never see codling. Still - on the bait side, that's the price to pay when you don't have time to go a diggin'. As for the lack of fish - I'd always been an optimist - my cr@p skills, not the lack of fish in the sea.

 

Who am I kidding. Last fish I saw was in the chippy at Aldeburgh, when I packed up, hacked off with blanking. Hey ho - roll on summer, so at least I can get sunburnt trying to catch doggies (see - still just on thread... )

[A Norfolk Boy]

Strangely, I have actually had a few codling this year as they seem to be more up at my end of the coast. There's also a shop at North Walsham that does good lug at £12.50 per hundred as opposed to the more normal £16-18. Bit out of my way for most of my fishing though.

 

back to the dogs......

[Grant]

Any tips on avoiding the ammonia taste, apart from not eating them!

 

As Socksy says, even I could catch them off the pier!

[thurso angler]

TO avoid the ammonia taste ive heard soaking them for 24hrs in salted water changing the water a couple of times helps to get rid of the taste.

[A Worm OOE]

Is there a problem with amonia. I have only cooked Dogfish that I have caught the once. They Went from sea to "surgery" to the beer batter all in less than an hour and it was wonderful.

I am put off by the surgery required in skinning them. That particular time we had one person using a knife whilst the farther in law resharpend another.

[Quinny]

I've eaten my dogfish perhaps 2 hours after catching and it tasted fine.... Did blunt my knife skinning them though.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

They would sell a rake of doggies ( now catties )

if they called it shark in these posher cafes. Save on bass being eaten.

 

My mate skins them like a rabbit with a nail on a post. Bet that wouldn't get by EU regs

[David.W]

I've never caught a catfish or a shark ether, now there's a chance to do all 3 with the one fish

 

Now just to make the time to go and get one.