Live dogs used as shark bait?

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Originally Posted by Duck Dog

I'm skeptical of that picture. If I were going to drag 60-70 lbs of bait behind my boat trolling for sharks I wouldn't hook it through soft tissue and I doubt any commercial fisherman would either. Looks like an unfortunate accident that the animal rights bafoons are trying to pass off as a horrible act of cruelty by fisherman.

Bingo.

That dog (if the photo is even real) wasn't hooked as bait. The minute you fired up the motor and pulled the slack out of the leader, that hook would rip right out of his mouth.