lonesome for ling

Post by **Lurewasher** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:08 pm

Thanks to everybody who responded to my question about burbot .
A Great bunch of guys on here ! info was much appreciated ! ....Bill

Post by **Lurewasher** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:05 pm

just a bump,in case anybody missed it that would have commented. : )

Post by **MLR** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:08 pm

They can be found in Lake Clear between Eganville and Foymount as well

Post by **DalhousieLakeTom** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:26 am

I concur with the Otter Lake replies. I have fished that lake alot in the winter and yeah there is a pile of ling there! Always nice too when you might "accidentally" catch a laker, splake, rainbow or BIG pike too. I have been lucky enough to catch all these species myself. Good luck!

Post by **Papaclaude** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:55 pm

For supper, I cooked up 3 walleye and a small ling I had caught. Used my standard egg/milk dip, roll in crushed BBQ chips. I asked my wife which one she liked best, and she was very hard pressed to say which one tasted better. I concur. Mind you, ling caught in the summer are very mushy, like warm-water pike.

BTW - if you haven't tried the crushed chips bit, you're really missing out. I also use crushed dill pickle when cooking trout or salmon. Crushed hickory sticks are great for catfish.

Post by **Mad_Dog** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:44 pm

Here is some interesting stuff... I've been anxious to catch one of these too, having heard stories about them. They can walk on their fins or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbot

Post by **Papaclaude** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:57 pm

I was reading the stuff on Wikipedia regarding ling. The world record sizes are interesting, in that I'm sure that if we did not break it several times we were very close to it. The average weight of ling we caught during the smelt run was about 10 lbs. with many of them around 20 lbs. We never bothered weighing any of them because we never thought we were even close to record fish. I'll look to see if I can dig up some pix of some of those fishing trips.