Awesome Day Fishing
 

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looks like a great day to be out on the ice. had to take a hotshot out to fox creek. so hopefully i'll get out monday.

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So heres a group pic. These were my first ever burbot and I managed to land 8. The biggest burbot I caught was around 6 pounds which is probally pretty average and the rest were 5 and up. The pike was 6.1 pounds and 30 inches

Looks like you had a good day!

Great lookin haul you got there congrats.

Ling Cod
 

Nice 6 pounder ! How do you like them are they better than pike !
I have not tried them yet ! Are they in shallow already ! How deep were you fishing ?
What kind of bait did you use ?

thanx for the comments. I was fishing on the edge of a drop off in 12 ft of water but a few yards closer to shore dropped off to 25. The guys fishing over the drop off caught a nice chunk of a pike that was probally around 13 pounds. I was origionally fishing with maggots for whitefish. I felt a little tension so i lifted (thinking it was a whitie) and ended up having a burb lol. After that some guys beside us showed us some tackel they were jigging off bottom with and we all started hammering them on those. I wasnt using bait, just a vertical spoon. We had one line out with a smelt for pike and got one burb on that too.

Nice Fish
 

Nice Fish... lots of snow up there...

Lookin Good congrats on the good days fishin and keep the posts coming your the future! Looks like a good future for alberta Outdoor Forum.

An easy way to get boneless burbot fillets is to impale the fish back up on a 2x4 with a 6" spike through it's head.This holds it still.Make a shallow cut around the back of neck area,run the fillet knife down spine [just under skin]full length on both sides of tail fin .[also cut along bottom tail fin]Grab skin with vicegrips and pull down[skin comes off like a sock]Leaving ribs and belly remove fillet[just meat]back to tail.No bones..................Harold

Good job, burbot are really easy to catch and they provide steady action all day when you find them!