Bulloch boats Friday 25th & Fish ID please

People: Me & Stephen8wood

Duration: 1.30pm – 5pm

Tide: falling

Weather: calm and mostly sunny. Beautiful day not to be in the office!

Bait: rag, mack

Rigs: 3 hook flapper, flowing trace, 3/0 pulley, feathers

Results: Cod, Mackerel, Pollock, Whiting, Pouting, Bull Huss or Lesser Spotted Dogfish ???.


Report:

Decided to take Friday afternoon off and give the Bulloch boats one last go before they close for the season and the day didn’t disappoint. It was a bit of a slow start but we had steady fish all afternoon. Not many macks about, we caught about 5. The photo of the dogfish is not great as I didn’t get all that much of him in it. It looks a lot smaller than it was. It was certainly much bigger than the LSDs I’m used to catching and he had those browny spots all over him. Can anyone tell from the photo if it’s a bull huss or an LSD?

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its a doggie have got some really big ones lately must be great feeding out there

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This might help for the next time.

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Thanks guys.

Sorry Stephen, looks like no new species for you .

It was a Bull Huss, Greatser spotted dog as far as I'm concerned. He had the funny nose.

If he had smiled at the camera it would be easier to determine.

steve thats a definite dogfish spots are too small and as donal has shown you the snout on the huss is completly different
look at some of the older reports and you l see the difference i still havent got out myself but will u pm me a contact number so i can give you a call

This might be of use to you too:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/page ... gfish.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/lsd.html
very handy site.

looks like a huss to me by looking at his top lip in the photo but hard to tell

It was a Bull Huss, Greatser spotted dog as far as I'm concerned. He had the funny nose.

If he had smiled at the camera it would be easier to determine.

sorry mate it is without doubt a dogfish, the nasal flaps on a huss are totally different, the head isnt larg enough either

this 3 post rule is not working this is a post from october 09 and with this post he only has 3?

look to me thats a dogfish/sand dogs or some irish people call them dallogs/jimmy dogs.look wat ever u like call them wat u want.quit the crap about lesser and greater spotted dogs.to me they r just dogfish

look to me thats a dogfish/sand dogs or some irish people call them dallogs/jimmy dogs.look wat ever u like call them wat u want.quit the crap about lesser and greater spotted dogs.to me they r just dogfish

they might be the same to you brian,but to the rest of us there two different species.

look to me thats a dogfish/sand dogs or some irish people call them dallogs/jimmy dogs.look wat ever u like call them wat u want.quit the crap about lesser and greater spotted dogs.to me they r just dogfish

they might be the same to you brian,but to the rest of us there two different species.

yup! never hooked a 12lb doggie!! but have hooked a 1lb huss!

eel/conger comes to mind too! or prawn/lobster!

BIG difference! good to get out and have a result!