Living close to Dartmouth, the Skerries Bank offers a wonderful opportunity to go plaice fishing, which I thoroughly enjoy. However, when both tides and the fish are small, especially early season, it is nice to break things up by anchoring and going after something altogether different, which is where the bull huss comes into play.
Properly known as a nursehound or large-spotted catshark, the bull huss is often referred to by anglers as the greater spotted dogfish, which is a bit of an anomaly because it is not actually a dogfish: neither is the
