I fished them a few times in Chelan. Right on the bottom in over 100 feet of water ( I think around 130) in front of 25 mile on the far side. They look a lot like an eel . Good eating,but not much over 4-5 pounds on average. We used jigs with a chunk on herring for bait. Fished in the daylight.

Back in Mn, there is an eelpout festival in the winter. Usually they ice fish for them, but some folks prefer to cut a big hole in the ice and launch their boat.






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the people in Mn are retarded....

I am from Minnesota- would you like to play hockey? Let me know when and where

You calling anyone a retard is a compliment

AP hey I have a pretty good article somewhere of how and where to fish for them in Washington. I will dig it up and get it to you.....found the article. I can drop it off for you on Monday if you want.

no more set lines in Chelan, it was in an issue of Northwest Sportsman last year i think....

Never caught one but would like to add it to my list someday. Just did a google image search and some of them can get pretty large.

Most aren't, but it does get really cold back home.. Got to give them some respect for getting out when they can though..

Me too Coho! Anoka high school. I hit the Oregon trail a little later than most of the other clan though!

Played hockey every day in the winter growing up, good times on the river and ponds for sure.

guys is wasnt meant like that... i responded to the picture.. who the fvck puts a bass boat into a swiming pool?


the people of Minnesota im sure are great, that bass boat stuff tho, retarded...

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Gotcha redhook,

We Mn people are just OK, the bass boats... whatever.

I almost called it a sled, but I'm learning!

Best,

I've caught a lot of them ice ice fishing in Alaska. I usually catch them on spoons that I jig (little cleo types, and believe it or not, Coyotes if the water isn't deeper than 25' or so) and tube jigs in 3.5 or 4 inches.

The bestest eugene1

Mahtomedi, Mn--after college I lived in the Boundary Waters for about 2 yrs on the Gunflint Trail worked out of Bearskin Lodge-That area is Gods Country

But i didnt eelpout/burbot guided

Ling cod is Hexigramidae, same as Greenling. They are not closely related to Burbot, and they are not sculpins.

I hate to admit it, but RH got me on the family name for Burbot though, The order is Gadiformes, but the family is Lotidae. It has been 35 years since I took fish 401, my bad.

Here is a stack of slimers



yes it happens



Miss Eelpout



Retarded

To completely thrash all theories...........sorry.

About 15 years or so ago, I was using a little black and gold panther Martin for rainbows in the lower end of a tributary of one of the eastern Washington lakes that have been mentioned and caught about a 2-3 pound burbot. What was weird is the fact that it was caught in a fairly high gradient cobbly stream with some current. My guess is he was following the bait up stream. Guess I should have eaten him but I thought it was too ugly to keep.

I thought about that tributary over the last few days, Danny...when's the trout fishing there good?

Fish on...

Todd

I think the Miss Eelpout picture needs to be bigger since they don't look slimey or disgusting.

i wasnt saying "Lings" as in "Lingcod" i was saying Lings as "Ling", or "Common Ling", such as the fish that is sometimes used in nasty a$$ Lutefisk....

Don't know if what I did counts as "fished" for burbot, but I went all set-linning for them in Lake Kaches.

I don't recall how many hooks I was allowed by law at the time, but I basically set a long 100lb. mono line in the lake between two buoys, with baited hooks on the line at set distances. I used herring chunks on for bait on 3/0 octopus hooks.

All the baits were eaten but only managed to bring two fish to the boat, one being a big burbot and the other being a huge squawfish.

If I had to do it again, I'd use circle hooks instead of octopus hooks as I bet more of the fish would have stayed on the hook.

It was something to do while we were camping up there on the lake years ago. Ended up limiting out on kokanees (fish, not the beer) most of the days. K flies tipped with maggots behind a little chrome flasher always get's it done for kokanee.



I think it's been about 20 years for me. Ted Pietsch was the instructor.......he's still at the UW today.