Caught my first Burb

[Izumi]

Caught my first burb this weekend and thought I would share with you guys. It was 8.5 lbs and came out of 3 Metres of water.

[frenchwhitey]

Nice fish!!

[moosehunter3-0]

Nice Burbot. What lake?

[Lethalconnection]

Beauty

[uicehole]

Nice burb Izi, that's a very decent size.

[Alberta Bigbore]

should be tasty boiled up and dipped in melted butter :D

[Pioneer2]

You boil burbot? I just dip them in a shake +bake type batter and pan fry them in olive oil.Any one have any tasty recipies they'd like to share? Harold

[FisherPotch]

Very nice burb man props! I have to ask though. Are you camera shy? With a fish like that i'd want to be in the picture even if i din't catch it lol.

[Izumi]

Very nice burb man props! I have to ask though. Are you camera shy? With a fish like that i'd want to be in the picture even if i din't catch it lol.

Lol, I am in those pics but to make them fit the image rules on the forum and preserve the detail on the fish I focused on the fish. Full size pics from my camera are well over a meg.

We battered it up and pan fried it in olive oil, maybe i will try boiling the next one. It fed 5 of us :)

[Lethalconnection]

Lol, I am in those pics but to make them fit the image rules on the forum and preserve the detail on the fish I focused on the fish. Full size pics from my camera are well over a meg.

We battered it up and pan fried it in olive oil, maybe i will try boiling the next one. It fed 5 of us :)

Upload your pictures to photobucket.com, then just copy and paste url and then the whole pic will fit.

[Izumi]

Thats a good idea, I noticed even though my files were the right size the server compressed them even further!

[Lethalconnection]

Yeah photobucket does all the compressing for yeah, upload the origianl photo and it will downsize to the required size for pretty much all sites.

[The Ice Man]

This sounds alittle gross but if you are willing to eat a burb you already have a strong stomach.

I have found with burbs if you nail the head to a 2x4, make a small cut behind the head and peal the skin back with a pair of plyers you can then proceed to cut two beautiful fillets from either side about 3/4" thick each. And dont forget the cheeks, these are considered a real treat in some european countries.

Now that you have your two fillets and the cheeks, heat up some butter blessed with garlic in a skillet on medium heat (NO SALT, salt is a dehydrater and will toughen out your fillets). Use the cheeks as a test run for how you fillets will turn out. Then cook until the fillets can be 'flaked' off with a fork, the burb should plump up.

It aint lobster, it anit crab, its is somewhere like cod fish but less fatty so the meat doesn't flake as well and a little tougher then cod, more the texture of Sole fish.

Enjoy
Ice Man

[brandon]

What did you use

[Izumi]

Jig and minnow, laid it right down on the bottom. The minnows were old n stinky as per the advice here lol.