Got to have fish on good friday

Had a drive around on Friday to pick some bits and bobs up and ended up on the island but with the very strong winds the fishing was going to be limited but we found a spot just about fishable and we managed a few dogs, dabs, whiting and pollack



Rob even manage done dogfish with a band around its gills????????? Had one of these about six years ago and didn't undestand it then,can anyone give an explanation as to why people are doing this???


Then it was time to go home and rob was doing his Bear Grylls impression

Not a bad few hours out,a few fish and good company

Good report Andy
Well done lads

Is the elastic band someone's sick idea of somehow killing a Doggie slowly I wonder

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Is the elastic band someone's sick idea of somehow killing a Doggie slowly I wonder
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Don't know mate,there was a few of them being caught a few years back but didn't reilise it was still going on

Well done chaps another cracking report

I've not got a clue    why would anyone put band around its gills            

Well done chaps we went down on Friday to see a mate had a look at one or two spots & decided not to bother fishing that wind was a bit stronger than predicted I think.There sure are some idiots in this world to put bands on fish like that god knows what they think it achieves

Great stuff mate,where did you fish????

Great report /pics well done on the fish lads

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Great stuff mate,where did you fish????

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It was flat rocks at trearddur bay mate,only place we could get out of them 30mph gusts

Good report and pictures it was well worth the look round to find somewhere out of the wind.

I remember that band thing a few years ago too, sick.

Just googled rubber bands on dogfish and found a thread about a dog fish found at Bray Head County Wicklow Eire,

Assuming that the fish are not crossing the Irish Sea could there be another explanation?

One possible explanation put forward was the using of rubber bands to secure dead or live bait to a hook, doggies like fish baits so could there be something about the way doggies take the bait that ends up with the band around them?

Are bands used in any kind of pots they might raid?

Or is it indeed just sickos?

I was told it was the potters that were putting them on to try and prevent them from re entering the pots (they do carry the bands) but don't think a dog fish would link the discomfort from the band to the last pot it wheat into

Was also told that anglers were putting these on to cause distress as all sharks give off stress signals and it's suppose to stop other sharks from feeding in that area this lowering the doggy catch rate (???? You can catch three dogfish on the same rig???) but I did see part of a documentary about sharks feeding and sensing blood for miles and coming in but when they added shark blood to the water all the sharks dissapered totally this made me think of these bands at the time

Also told that anglers put them on just to see how many could be re caught and it didn't matter because it was only a dogfish think these are purposely put on as the ones I've seen and heard about are all in the last gill and are so tight they start cutting in to the tough skin and think if it was bait bands it would get stuck in the first one,someone out there knows

As an angler who believes in conservation so much I blank on purpose from time to time ( )

But if I wished to put a band on a doggy as marker I would put it around his tail and certainly not around his gills
Not that I'd do such thing anyway.

I wonder how long an elastic band would survive in the water before perishing
Longer than a fish I hope

great report and pics andy and well done on the fish

Great report and pics

Great report andy and great pics