It's taken a couple of days for me to post this with the fear everyone would think I'm nuts.
Saturday evening, My son, a good friend of mine and myself were trolling at West Point. My rod started to get bit so I popped it off the down rigger and turned it over to my son. I thought for sure it might be a Dog fish. The fish comes to the surface about 30 yards behind the boat and I still couldn't quite tell what it was. All of a sudden, the rod takes a hard jerk down and comes back up with the origional about of pressure from this small fish attached. Then we see a shark fin and tail on the top of the water behind the fish. I would guess the distance from the dorsal to the tail was around 36". I've seen my fair share of Dog Fish in my days, but this did not appear to be one. So we get this fish up to the boat and it's a True Cod with a bite taken out of its' back. I wish I had a camera with me so you could see the bite mark. It went clean through the spine and was about 4" across at the widest point. It wasn't chewed up, just a clean, single bite.
I know there's 6 Gill Sharks in the Sound, but I thought they were most active late at night. Any thoughts on what type of shark this could have been?