Spawning Burbot

[WayneChristie]

OK educate me, in southern Alberta when where and how do burbot spawn? seen 2 pike with burbs in their guts now, so I know they are around. I want to find some the size of the one I had swim under my hole on Gull this weekend, it was massive.

[Dust1n]

Sandy bottom flats in late Febuary/March

[WayneChristie]

cool, I know 2 places already then, hope they will still have ice on them. sounds like a good excuse for a burbathon!

[flygirrl]

Hmmm, maybe I will come and dance on your lakes this weekend. Will I get breakfast?

[WayneChristie]

Hmmm, maybe I will come and dance on your lakes this weekend. Will I get breakfast?

how do you like your eggs? :bad_boys_20:

[flygirrl]

Timmy's!!!!!

[WayneChristie]

junkie! Im sure we can scrape up breakfast for you, have to hit the farm just south of town and pick up some fresh eggs, hope they ran out of rocksalt, that stuff stings! darn noisy chickens anyways! dont know what the problem is they can just lay more of them!

[Twobits]

Yeah i seen some big ones today at gull as well.

[Gust]

they taste odd during spawn time

[WayneChristie]

they taste odd during spawn time

I dont have to eat them, I just like the fight they put up. caught quite a few with eggs in them and they tasted ok but they werent actively spawning yet

[Daceminnow]

they taste odd during spawn time


the majority of the time i've eaten burbot is on an annual trip to slave in the spring. late march. fishing eyes and there's lots of ling snaking their way around the same holding structure. there is absolutely nothing wrong with the taste of their flesh at this time, or anytime. maybe the organs taste odd during the spawn, but i wouldn't know. never bothered with fish organs.

Dace

[chubbdarter]

WC, alot of our ling in the south spawn on layed down vegetation near rocks in fairly shallow water. The big ling pod up so thick its like a creepy python movie. Two spots come to mind where in warm weather the late ice thickness is affected by the spawning action.