LING FISHERMAN????

Does any one ling? Last night the wind was light, the moon was right, and I had no one to go linging with (bummer). I’ve been out several times and have yet to get a ling. The last three years have shown a marked decrease in ling catches. The fish and game, in there great wisdom, thinks there may be a problem. They have proposed to decrees the limit to five from ten. Well there are like ten people that ling fish I don’t think that is going to make much of a difference. I would say that the decline is dew to five year drought, and more drastic action is needed! We haven’t kept any ling we’ve caught for years sense we noticed the decline, any comment.  

d4570

 I don't have a cabin in the area, wish I did as that would dictate I have more money than I do  I do however live in the area. I'm about 100 yards south of the Hardy Creek bridge. We just moved here last Thanksgiving. I have heard Ling fishing is good in the area but haven't tried it yet. Hopefully after getting the house all in order I can become a fulltime fishing fool.

d4570

 I'll keep a eye out. I see people at the boat ramp across from the fly fisher Inn at night. Is that where you fish?

Orion

Burbot
The burbot—also known as ling, ling cod, and lawyer—can’t forget it’s the only freshwater member of the cod family. This close relative of Atlantic cod, haddock, and pollock is one of the few freshwater fishes to spawn in winter—the same time ocean cod spawn in the Atlantic Ocean.
The catfish-shaped burbot is marked by a single barbel on its chin and a mottled pattern of brown blotches on a yellow background. Slow for a fish, the burbot uses its camouflage to dupe minnows into swimming within striking distance.

Though considered a game fish, the burbot is often disdained by anglers put off by the fish’s habit of wrapping itself around their arm like an eel as they try to remove the hook. One friend refers to burbot as the “ish of fish.”

Seen only by a few biologists and ice anglers, the burbots’ spawning ritual is almost mythical. In early February, they move from the depths of rivers and reservoirs to shallow water over mud flats or sandy shoals. The snakelike fish then congregate in a living glob of from a dozen to a hundred or more intertwined bodies that move in and out of the quivering sphere, releasing eggs and spawn.

Noted north woods author and naturalist Sigurd E. Olson once witnessed burbot spawning through an opening in the ice and described the spectacle: “We…saw such a sight as few have ever seen—a struggling, squirming mass of fish, the long brownish snaky bodies twisting around each other, the entire contorted mass turning over and over, beating the water into a foam.”
Burbot are primarily fish of northern waters—including those of Europe—though some occasionally turn up as far south as Missouri. Most swim in clean, deep lakes and rivers. Scientists have found them as deep as 1,000 feet in Lake Superior.

Like that of the cod, the burbot’s liver is rich in vitamins A and D. French connoisseurs prize the foie de lotte de rivière (liver of the river cod), either poached in white wine or made into pâté or canapés. The meat is codlike, too—white and bone-free.

I just knew the you were a true fisherman! 

d45/70

 So how many fish did you really catch If your first report wasn't a fish tale, that was quite a catch.