One heck of a great and unique photo of the incident.

Agreed! Photo of the year right there!

Could be good compost for a garden at your place if you can’t find anyone who wants it for bait.

I’ve trolled as deep as 85’. After cranking up the 6# weight 10+ times at that depth, it really made me want to figure out how to mount an electric downrigger lol. But they are a lot heavier, not sure about their power draw and it’s pretty rare that I troll that deep. I prefer to keep the kayak as light as possible and 95% that I troll for Kokanee I’m around 40’-65’ deep.

Soup fins easily identified by their slender bodies and long snouts, their small second dorsal fins and the large lobe on the upper sections of their tails.
The narrownose smoothhound shark has a slender body, similar in form to other triakids, and a short head with large eyes. The snout is bluntly angular and there is narrow distance between nostrils. Narrownose smoothhounds are gray with numerous small white spots on their dorsal side and solid white coloration underneath. The trailing edges of both dorsal fins have exposed ceratotrichia (slender soft or stiff filaments of an elastic protein that superficially resembles keratin), a distinctive characteristic for the species.

This is what a soupfin looks like. 100 % that’s what you caught.

I have been doing this for years. I have 2 big stand up freezers in my garage. I keep 2 5 gallon buckets in each freezer.  I will cut the fish carcasses up in small chunks and put them in one of the freezer buckets throughout the year. I even collect some kelp each time out. Rinse it off good and lay it on top of the soil. Kelp is great for the garden and keep slugs and snails off of your plants. If I don’t use the fish carcasses for crabbing I will dig a hole in my garden in late fall for composting. I only put one bucket worth of fish and bait scraps in per month and mix the compost pile up once a week. During winter the smell isn’t out of control and you will have the best compost for all the new plants in spring. I have 0 waste that gets put into the trash from fishing.

i prefer just cutting mine to be a similar size. the belly is my preference.

Smoked belly and collars are the best part cuts! That fish looks delicious!