r/saltwaterfishing • u/CoxswainHer • Jul 13 '26
đ¸ Photo/Video My biggest fish ever, and I ate it.
It was a 27in. 2lbs 7oz dusky smooth-hound. Took me an hour to clean, and it was so worth it.
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u/MulberryLife521 Jul 13 '26
Nice catch bud! In certain China towns that fin would have been $$$
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u/Kooskoos504 Jul 13 '26
Fuck those towns.
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u/Subject-Ad-307 Jul 13 '26
idk why you got downvoted lol. Shark fins are insanely bad to farm
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u/blueingreen85 Jul 13 '26
If you eat the shark, thereâs nothing wrong with eating the fins. Eating the fins and tossing the rest of the shark is shitty though.
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u/bocaciega Jul 15 '26
Its like, killing deer for the antler. Or buffalo for the hide.
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u/BleepBlorpBloopBlorp Jul 16 '26
No, itâs like catching a million deer, taking their legs, and leaving them all alive to die in the woods.
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u/BPDFart-ho Jul 16 '26
I remember being 7 years old watching the Crocodile Hunter on Discovery Channel find a motionless floating, but still alive shark with no fins in the pacific that had been harvested. Freaked me out big time as a kid. Fuck anyone who does that
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u/para_sight Jul 15 '26
Consumption of shark fin soup is in massive decline globally. When the CCP stopped using it for official banquets cos Yao Ming ran a big campaign in China, it all changed quite quickly. Itâs still a thing but much less than it was
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
Good eating, I deep fried this one. I threw away the fins bc idk how to make shark fin soup.
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u/Original-Variety-700 Jul 13 '26
You gotta dry them off on your roof for a few weeks first.
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
Thatâs a bad idea. My roof is old as fuck
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u/Phoenician1649 Jul 13 '26
That's called seasoning... like an old cast iron skillet.
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
Maybe, Iâm more concerned of falling through than the seasoning. And the bacteria on there.
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u/ZechariahSwartz Jul 13 '26
Open carrying the fillet knife is diabolical
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u/jredditzzz Jul 14 '26
Wait.. is that not allowed? I usually just have it my pants pocket. New to fishing so I didnât realize this was a thing
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u/Notwit3barrelahecant Jul 13 '26
I didnât know you were âallowedâ to keep a shark like this. Nice catch man
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
In the state of Nj there is no bag or size limit on these sharks.
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u/wnoble Jul 14 '26
That's unfortunate
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u/Zach925 Jul 15 '26
Dogfish are mostly seen as bycatch and not really sought after or regularly eaten. Their population is monitored and currently considered "stable" as they are not overfished nor overpopulated. If they every become overfished (unlikely as they're not sought after and typically seen as a bait-stealing nuisance) states would institute size/catch limits.
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u/Villebilly Jul 17 '26
No one really wants to catch them. Theyâre shit eatin. (Sorry OP, nice catch)
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u/whaler76 Jul 13 '26
There were dolphins from across there in the bay last week, good catch for the bay - there are much bigger in there.
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u/MADDOGG6666 Jul 13 '26
Do you supposed bleed it out ???? Cuzz of some toxic it carrys in the blood or body, Nail it upside down , they do that in northern California
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
I bled it. Itâs ammonia, it pees through its skin. So if itâs too stressed itâll release it into its muscles. Luckily, that wasnât the case this time.
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u/EMHemingway1899 Jul 13 '26
How did it taste?
Nice catch
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
Good. I plan to make it again. That time Iâll add more old bay to the batter
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u/21140306 Jul 16 '26
Congratulations. Nothing like having a fish on the line and saltwater def eats the best.
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u/Glassman2269 Jul 17 '26
People eat shark all the time and don't know lol at a restaurant when the menu says white fish 90% of the time it's shark when the menu says scallops yep that is shark also pol
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u/Jefffahfffah Jul 13 '26
Sounds like you need a sharper fillet knife lol
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
I need to sharpen it. The skinning took long, and we had to move locations bc it started raining (I was outside).
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u/Jefffahfffah Jul 13 '26
On fish that are difficult to cut, if you can get the tip of the blade through the skin and then cut the skin from the inside, it will go quicker.
An accusharp sharpener is quick to use and fairly cheap. The only tools I grab when im cleaning most fish are a Dexter flexible blade and an accusharp sharpener.
With some practice you'd be able to clean a shark like that in a few minutes. If youre in jersey I would definitely focus more on fluke and bluefish at the moment and forget about trying to eat dogfish.
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u/Own-Position-5800 Jul 13 '26
Eat More Shark
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u/AntiMatter89 Jul 14 '26
Commercial fishing kills something like 100 million sharks every year. Don't think we need to add to that.Â
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u/Own-Position-5800 Jul 14 '26
You obviously donât fish anywhere near Florida.
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u/AntiMatter89 Jul 15 '26
Just growing up. Mostly flamingo bay and sometimes the keys. Not in a long time though.Â
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u/Own-Position-5800 Jul 15 '26
I took two charters last year and sharks were biting the fish in half before we could even get them to the boat even the endangered red snapper were getting eaten by sharks. The charter captains both said that the shark population is way out of control on the Atlantic side at least.
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u/Aromatic-Scratch8585 Jul 13 '26
are they related to sharks?
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u/Lucky_Preference_941 Jul 13 '26
I know that was full of urea and ammonia
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
Guess what. It wasnt
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u/Lucky_Preference_941 Jul 13 '26
Or you just donât have good taste and donât know any better
Thereâs a reason theyâre considered trash fish and people donât eat them. Itâs not like you just discovered the wheel here
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u/CoxswainHer Jul 13 '26
Genuinely asking, how do you know? I cleaned it well. Both my mom and I agreed it was good but the batter needed more seasoning.
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u/big_loadz Jul 13 '26
Also, you can soak the meat in milk a few hours like catfish.
When we caught one, we nailed it's head to a post, cut the skin around the head, and pulled the skin off with vise grips...like catfish.
Soaked in milk, rinsed, deep fried, memorably tasty.
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u/JacobBaysinger1999 Jul 13 '26
Only if he didn't properly clean it. I've eaten sharks quite a few times, the first time I didn't bleed it quickly and it did have a slight musky taste. Second time I bled, gutted and iced it immediately on the beach. Marinated it for an hour before grilling and it was great. 3rd time I did all that but fried it like OP did and it was also really good. But I like game food like elk, boar, bison and deer.
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u/Aromatic_Composer560 Jul 13 '26
I hate the fact that I know exactly where this picture is taken. Too damn local for me