A Burb and a Half!

[drhu22]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-ling-king-1.3479823

Whats the biggest youve seen in southern Alberta?

[FlyTheory]

Holy burb! Well the AO recordbook says just shy of 20lbs, but I've never seen anything that large.

[MoFugger21]

Monster! Nice. Biggest I've seen/caught in southern AB is 9lbs in Travers a couple years ago.

[iYearn]

That is an interesting, and unfortunate, comment in the article:

Some anglers find burbot ugly or slimy, and prefer to cut the line rather than handle them.

[Sooner]

Many moons ago we seen a dead one in Peerless on the May Long weekend. It was huge. Never thought they could get that big. Would be awesome to reel in a hog like that.

[HowSwedeItIs]

Man what a nice fish, good on him

the comments section was good for a laugh too

[burbotman]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-ling-king-1.3479823

Whats the biggest youve seen in southern Alberta?

Cool link, that is a great fish. Biggest I have seen in southern Ab, 41.5"

[burbotman]

A few years ago

[Soiler]

Wow! Hell of a fish young fella!

[The Reel Deal]

my pb is 40" 14.75#

[Sumara]

What a massive burbot!

[FishHunterPro]

My friend caught an 11lb last year and I seen a guy catch a 15lb at grist .

[curtis_rak]

Nice fish.

The comments section is unfortunate... you just cant put those kinds of stories into any mainstream media without getting roasted by the tree-huggers.

[KegRiver]

I've never caught one that large but I've seen a couple that would have been close if not larger.

They were caught on night lines in the Peace River. That fishing method is no longer legal and with todays regulations Ling are a rare catch on this river.
They just don't go for unbaited hooks and not often for baited hooks where and how we use them now.

I'm not even sure there are Ling in this river any more. I know the Grayling have dissapeared and no one fished for them either so who knows what's happened to the Ling. There could be monsters in this river, or nothing.

[Talking moose]

I've never caught one that large but I've seen a couple that would have been close if not larger.

They were caught on night lines in the Peace River. That fishing method is no longer legal and with todays regulations Ling are a rare catch on this river.
They just don't go for unbaited hooks and not often for baited hooks where and how we use them now.

I'm not even sure there are Ling in this river any more. I know the Grayling have dissapeared and no one fished for them either so who knows what's happened to the Ling. There could be monsters in this river, or nothing.

I caught a lot of ling out of the peace on pickeral rigs. Mouth of whitemud, the park, bobbys flats. Would catch a chub on bacon and then use chunks of the chub for bait. I caught hundreds right up until I left the area in 2007. They are there. The grayling are in the smaller tributaries upstream like the whitemud passed sulfer lake road at sheep camp.

[Bigwoodsman]

Wow, great burbs on here.

Going out Saturday night for a few hours, hope to catch a few nice ones for Sunday dinner.

BW

[357xp]

I've never caught one that large but I've seen a couple that would have been close if not larger.

They were caught on night lines in the Peace River. That fishing method is no longer legal and with todays regulations Ling are a rare catch on this river.
They just don't go for unbaited hooks and not often for baited hooks where and how we use them now.

I'm not even sure there are Ling in this river any more. I know the Grayling have dissapeared and no one fished for them either so who knows what's happened to the Ling. There could be monsters in this river, or nothing.

sure there are keg, see them every spring when ice fishing on the peace.

[Macdrizzle]

lost a lot of brain cells reading the comment section of that article.

[Big_Twitch]

yikes

[Dragless]

The world record burbot is from deifenbaker lake sask, he's actually a member of this forum and either him or his brother hold the record for rb trout 48 lbs I believe the burbot is 25 lbs both from the same lake look up fishinggeek on this forum or YouTube it pretty insane

[Talking moose]

The world record burbot is from deifenbaker lake sask, he's actually a member of this forum and either him or his brother hold the record for rb trout 48 lbs I believe the burbot is 25 lbs both from the same lake look up fishinggeek on this forum or YouTube it pretty insane


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[Wolfgang]

Caught one last year at my local burbot hole that was 10 lbs 2 oz, still had nothing on these monsters.

The burbot fishing has been insane, was out last week and broke triple digits in just over 3 hours, the biggest maybe just over 5 lbs, average in the 2 -3 lbs range.