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Title: New world record for burbot.
Post by: TGF on Apr 20, 2010, 04:23 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?id=4284677 (http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?id=4284677)

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: 1fish@atime on Apr 20, 2010, 04:58 AM

That fish is just stupid big!! Wow, those guys do have big fish dialed in....

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: holmes76 on Apr 20, 2010, 11:12 AM

did you notice on the bottom of that page.. "Burbot are a freshwater member of the gadiform family (which includes most common codfish), and are sometimes mistakenly referred to as "eelpout."

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: jabers34 on Apr 22, 2010, 01:19 PM

Nice Fish

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: Water Wolf on Apr 25, 2010, 01:47 AM

Woohoo, another record fish for Sask. ;D

Man, that thing is unreal. :o

Congrats to the fishinggeeks on their new IGFA burbot. :)

WW

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: MTangler on May 10, 2010, 11:07 PM

What is the difference between"eelpout" and "burbot?  OR another common name in montana is the "ling"

Quote from: holmes76 on Apr 20, 2010, 11:12 AM

did you notice on the bottom of that page.. "Burbot are a freshwater member of the gadiform family (which includes most common codfish), and are sometimes mistakenly referred to as "eelpout."

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: Ugly Ice on May 11, 2010, 01:36 PM

Burbot/Eel pout/Ling
All the same fish

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: switchbreed on Jun 23, 2011, 08:10 PM

Probably called eelpout because they look a lot like them. As far as i know the "real" eelpout is an ocean species. Im not sure thought but when i translate eelpout to Swedish i get "tånglake" which is an ocean living fish that looks almost like burbot but you can see clear differences between them. Not a big deal really in the ol' days they called them freshwater cod over here.

EDIT:
Apperently Ling, Cusk and eelpout (all three are names I've heard people using when referring to burbot) are three different types of cod-like fish all living in the ocean. It was confusing for someone like me coming from Sweden because I had a hard time figuring out which one it really was. Why don't people just call them burbor? lol

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: H.T. on Jun 23, 2011, 08:17 PM

we call them lings down here out of Oneida or lawyers ::) ::) yes fresh water cod. the ones that the Maine guys get seen to be longer in size. ;D i would rather catch walleyes and perch anyday over those slimmy things anyday ::) ::) ;D

Title: Re: New world record for burbot.
Post by: anglerbrian on Jul 15, 2011, 01:43 PM

Quote from: H.T. on Jun 23, 2011, 08:17 PM

we call them lings down here out of Oneida or lawyers ::) ::) yes fresh water cod. the ones that the Maine guys get seen to be longer in size. ;D i would rather catch walleyes and perch anyday over those slimmy things anyday ::) ::) ;D

Call them whatever you like they are one of the best tasting fish out there. I like perch and Walleye too but Burbot are just as good and easy to fillet as well.