how to stop catching doggies

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#1 Post by **roger de dodger** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:53 pm

ok ive tried little hooks (still got doggies )tried huge hooks (still got doggies ) even tried no hooks (bait fell of line ) :x there must be something they wont eat dont mention noses :D any tips here please :shock:

#2 Post by **fishinmidget** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:59 pm

what do you want to catch instead?

#3 Post by **roger de dodger** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:13 pm

anything else was thinking about mullet on the float in the dodder or liffey as ive never tried it i think alby is going to give me a lesson soon (havnt told him yet :D )

#4 Post by **stevecrow74** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:25 pm

how to stop catching doggies??

stop using hooks.. its the only way :? :? but chances are you'll still catch them..

teacher · #5 Post by **teacher** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:47 pm

Tried floating beads ??? I haven't myself. mightn't but them out, but it might reduce them a bit.

I usually just put a tip of bait on the hook and put up with them. I usually find they disappear when the bass arrive. When the doggies stop biting, its time to get off your backside and prepare for the frontal assault.

#6 Post by **donal** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:17 pm

try squid once i saw a hole shole of them turn there nose up at it having said that they take it sometimes but the best baits for sea fishing will defenitly cath them mac sandeal and lug

#7 Post by **rab01** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:33 pm

in my experience they love squid, caught plenty on it. also the floaty beads won't put them off, i've caught them floatfishing before!! they just scavenge on anything. i have to say i don't mind catching plenty of them.

#8 Post by **stevecrow74** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:35 pm

true.. caught plenty of dogs on squid.. could be worse.. you could be plagued with 5 inch whiting and coalfish all the time..

#9 Post by **roger de dodger** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:03 pm

they are there but the doggies eat them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P

#10 Post by **donal** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:24 pm

ahh the day will come when we will be happy to catch them hered there bing tarketed by the fishmeal industrty as we speak along with anything that can bite a hook :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

#11 Post by **g.wyse** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:39 pm

Had this problem with doggies at the start of the year.Changed over to worm baits and found that they don't have as much taste for lug etc. (although i'm sure they would take it if really pushed) as they do for fish baits.

#12 Post by **m.b3** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:21 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZBJzwDerB4&NR=1

YouTube - Doggies

they love minisquid in some places. straight lug tends to get hit less but not everywhere! have had days were floaties helped to catch dogs. rather them than pin whiting anyday :cry:

paulocallaghan · #13 Post by **paulocallaghan** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:39 am

dogs will eat anything, iv had dem on rashers

#14 Post by **corbyeire** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:12 pm

id take bloody rashers :lol:

lucky doggies

#15 Post by **stevecrow74** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:16 pm

corbyeire wrote:id take bloody rashers :lol:

lucky doggies

well we've all seen the state of the sausages you eat... i doubt even a doggie would touch them :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

#16 Post by **petekd** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:21 pm

Ah, good old LSDs, much loved by match men everywhere, problem is I've never got amongst them in a match and tend instead to be plagued by them on pleasure sessions from time to time.

I was fishing Tope in Lough Swilly last year on Rapala with full mackerel fillets and flappers on 7/0 forged hooks, after several doubles of doggies on a single hook :shock: I wound in another double shot with one on the hook and the other (insert description as you see fit... Suicidal, Mad, Stupid....whatever) doggie had his mouth firmly fastened around the wire trace I was using, about a foot up from the hook. :? It was nearly as hard to unclamp him from it as it was to unhook the other one, he wasn't for getting left behind.

#17 Post by **Century Man** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:17 pm

have to agree with Teacher.... I've always found that when doggies suddenly stop biting in summer you can be nearly 100% certain that a pack of hounds or tope will hit fairly soon.

#18 Post by **Dave Jolly** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:41 pm

Mussels..... doggies hate em, I don't think I have ever caught one on em, and I know I have caught em on everything else..
Dave

teacher · #19 Post by **teacher** » Thu May 24, 2007 7:46 am

Dave Jolly wrote:Mussels..... doggies hate em, I don't think I have ever caught one on em, and I know I have caught em on everything else..

Nice tip.

On one of my regular beaches, changing your casting distance helps. But then it's often a choice of catching doggies or catching nothing :(

If you can't avoid them, the Gemini Disgorger is a handy tool for removing them quickly. Also, I've found pennel rigs can prevent some gut hooks. (But if they do swallow the pennel it's a mess).

#20 Post by MC » Thu May 24, 2007 4:15 pm

the best way to stop catching doggies is to not go fishing, but thats too hard, you can use circle hooks, if not i use long nose forceps or the Gemini disgorger, the best bet is to use lighter a lighter rod and enjoy the fun, after all it bets blanking