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Dogfish, no too big, what was it?
On Saturday I was diving out of Falmouth when I cama across what looked like a huge Dogfish. It looked just like any other Dogfish except this one was about 5ft (1.5m) long, it was huge. It's face looked a little more serious that a Dogfish, but had similar markings. I've looked around and keep finding the standard Dogfish picture which have a max length of 1m. It was lying on the bottom just like a Dogfish would, I didn't disturb it, it was looking to grumpy and too big to mess with.

Does anyone have any idea what it was? Sorry I didn't get a picture.
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On Saturday I was diving out of Falmouth when I cama across what looked like a huge Dogfish. It looked just like any other Dogfish except this one was about 5ft (1.5m) long, it was huge. It's face looked a little more serious that a Dogfish, but had similar markings. I've looked around and keep finding the standard Dogfish picture which have a max length of 1m. It was lying on the bottom just like a Dogfish would, I didn't disturb it, it was looking to grumpy and too big to mess with.

Does anyone have any idea what it was? Sorry I didn't get a picture.

Tope?? I've seen one about 1.5m long before.
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On Saturday I was diving out of Falmouth when I cama across what looked like a huge Dogfish. It looked just like any other Dogfish except this one was about 5ft (1.5m) long, it was huge. It's face looked a little more serious that a Dogfish, but had similar markings. I've looked around and keep finding the standard Dogfish picture which have a max length of 1m. It was lying on the bottom just like a Dogfish would, I didn't disturb it, it was looking to grumpy and too big to mess with.

Does anyone have any idea what it was? Sorry I didn't get a picture.


Sounds like a Bull Huss or Smooth Hound have a look at this
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On Saturday I was diving out of Falmouth when I cama across what looked like a huge Dogfish. It looked just like any other Dogfish except this one was about 5ft (1.5m) long, it was huge. It's face looked a little more serious that a Dogfish, but had similar markings. I've looked around and keep finding the standard Dogfish picture which have a max length of 1m. It was lying on the bottom just like a Dogfish would, I didn't disturb it, it was looking to grumpy and too big to mess with.

Does anyone have any idea what it was? Sorry I didn't get a picture.
Probably a Greater Spotted Dogfish (or Bull Huss, or Nurse Hound, as they're also known) which can grow up to about 1.6mtrs in length.


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Sounds like a Bull Huss alright. Tope from what I understand are a dark grey in colour and a lot more sharky looking!! Also have a very distinct rectangular chunk out of the tailfin.
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Sounds like a Bull Huss alright. Tope from what I understand are a dark grey in colour and a lot more sharky looking!! Also have a very distinct rectangular chunk out of the tailfin.
Yeah, they do look shark like.... imagine my reaction on a fast-ish drift in 4m viz coming face to face with it... I'm not sure who was more surprised!
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I think it must be that, it was a biggun. It did look like a normal Dogfish but much larger.

I looked around the net at dogfish and only found the normal one!!

Just did a google image search for Bull Huss, that was it.

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Yeah, they do look shark like.... imagine my reaction on a fast-ish drift in 4m viz coming face to face with it... I'm not sure who was more surprised!
I've been there, interesting isn't it!

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