The Burbot Bash !!!
Jan 8, 2020 21:50:59 #
Hey to all you hard core Hard Water Zombies.The Flaming Gorge Burbot Bash is on. January 24,25,26 lots of prizes lots of money. Last year winners caught 365 Burbot in three days the won $5,950.00 for most fish biggest fish second biggest fish and a couple prize drawings. There are tagged fish for good money. Even a pile if tagged lake trout for $100 bucks a tag. There are 99 tagged fish still swimming. Kinda short notice but doable. It's glue season!!! Lol
Jan 8, 2020 21:52:28 #
Jan 8, 2020 22:01:44 #
Excuse my ignorance, but what is a Burbot? Can you send a photo? RJS
Jan 8, 2020 22:10:53 #
Robert J, a Burbot is a cross between an eel and a fish I think. Lol. Let me figure out how to load a picture here ok.
Jan 8, 2020 22:30:17 #
Man, That's a wicked lookin thing. It looks like it would give a pretty good fight though.
Jan 8, 2020 22:49:17 #
Can you go in the water wherever those things live? I second the wicked description. What do you do with one of those?
Jan 8, 2020 22:59:06 #
Jan 8, 2020 23:17:04 #
Someone else was talking about these a couple of weeks ago. They are a cold water species that requires very cold water to reproduce. I hear they taste like lobster.
Jan 8, 2020 23:21:56 #
Haha.yep they are wicked looking, they are a preditor fish,eating machines. Not much on the toothy kind of fish more like a catfish. With one chin wisker. There night feeders although can be caught in the day light. There fun to catch when you find em it's game on. With a 6 rod limit here on Burbot you won't need a chair. And there's no limit on them. And great eating. Spirit swimming is safe just keep your junk in the trunk and you won't be on the menu.
Jan 9, 2020 00:08:53 #
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Jan 9, 2020 00:44:48 #
I have heard them called Ling Cod. They are ugly and they are tasty.
Jan 9, 2020 00:58:19 #
True ling cod out here in Cal. is an ocean dwelling bottom fish that is both ugly and tasty also.
Jan 9, 2020 07:43:04 #
We call burbot, eelpout, in MN. and we have an International Eelpout Festival around the middle of Feb. in Walker, MN. It is a big deal (drunk) and it will bring a ton of money into the small town of Walker and the surrounding area. Sections of Leech Lake, a very big lake, will be just covered with people with hardly a place to stand in order to fish. Big money prizes and a good time is had by all.
Jan 9, 2020 09:40:45 #
MuskyHunter
Loc: Torrington, CT
Egghead wrote:
Robert J, a Burbot is a cross between an eel and a fish I think. Lol. Let me figure out how to load a picture here ok.
A burbot is not a cross between two species. It is its own species.
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