While fishing rainbow smelt one night i put a dead smelt on one line and put it down 60 feet and let it set there thinking laker might pick it up while I jigged for smelt. Well something slowly took line and i caught a fish I havent seen before. Since someone told me it was a smooth skin ling or burbot. It was cold as all get out and slimey. Are they good to eat? Never happened to catch one before in Lake Champlain Vt.
Sure sounds like a burbot.
Smooth skin, slimey as snot, ugly as sin, taste delicious.
That is one of my main ways to fish them. Dead smelt on bottom on a tipup, after dark, while fishing smelt. Tear the belly on the smelt to help put out a little more scent before sending it down.
fresh water cod! prepare anyway you would cod. I dont waste them for "poor mans lobster". I usually fry or broil. One of the best tasting fish avaliable.
fresh water cod! prepare anyway you would cod. I dont waste them for "poor mans lobster". I usually fry or broil. One of the best tasting fish avaliable.
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