I am on the email list of a NS from PP who does tile fish trips. This is part of the email I got today about yesterdays trip.
"It was great to finally get back out on the water yesterday as we made our first TILE trip of 2014. Fishing was not what I had hoped for as we spent a good portion of the trip running from the rare spiny dogfish. It didn't seem that depth mattered as we caught them from 400-900 feet. The tough thing about the dogs was that it was hard to gauge whether there were any Tiles in the area as they got on us pretty quickly each stop. Fortunately we had a great group of die hard fishermen who never stopped fishing all day. A pretty amazing feat as it is easy to get discouraged under those conditions. Early in the afternoon we found an area where the dogs were not as ferocious and where there were some tiles biting. It still wasn't great fishing but we managed to pick fish through the dogs. Most people ended up with 3-6 fish. Mike had the pool winning TILE weighing in at 25 pounds. We also had some ROSEFISH, HAKE and other bottom dwellers on the trip."
I can not comprehend what the feeling would be after reeling in 700 feet of line and you have a F**KING DOGFISH.
I would have went straight to the Heinekens after a few of them.
I wonder if the people who are managing our fisheries will ever realize that they are eating everything in the ocean and are seriously hurting the other fish populations.
Tight Lines,
Bob G
