Burbot!

[philocalist]

Hmmm :-) What is the perceived wisdom for fishing for this beastie? ... just discovered that I may well be fishing a water that holds them (alongside many other species) for a few weeks over the summer!

Edited March 12, 2018 by philocalist

[Martin56]

Hi Peter, hope you get lucky mate BUT - have a listen to this,

Think it's been posted before though??

 

https://soundcloud.com/far-shoreline/the-case-of-the-missing-burbot

[Phone]

Martin,

 

Can't listen to it. It's in some strange English language dialect.

 

The burbot is an engima, a mystery, a fish unlike any other. It is the only freshwater member of the great codfish family. The burbot prefers deep, cold water, darkness, and secret hiding places. The life of the burbot is timed to strange cycles: the wind, the winter, the eternal darkness. In the Missouri River drainage they are known as eelpout, or lawyer fish. Best if eaten

 

 

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[philocalist]

Hi Peter, hope you get lucky mate BUT - have a listen to this,

Think it's been posted before though??

 

https://soundcloud.com/far-shoreline/the-case-of-the-missing-burbot

Sure has Martin - from memory I think it may well have been me that posted it ... thouigh this water is outside of the UK, apparently with burbot quite common - apparently also the Hutchen, a freshwater version of the salmon, with the biggest rod caught specimen recorded at 1.8 metres / 60kg in weight, from memory, and fish in excess of 1.5metres recorde each season! :-)

[Ken L]

Off to Sweden?

Looks like jigging or bait fishing with works from a boat in deep water is he order of the day.

[Phone]

Philo,

 

The bait of the day - - - SALMON EGGS!!

 

We have sturgeon in the river and a blob is a good as it gets. I've only caught a couple in my lifetime. The bait also, in fact, is primarily for flathead catfish. (I never liked night fishing so I never really expected much luck).

 

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[corydoras]

Philo,

 

The bait of the day - - - SALMON EGGS!!

 

We have sturgeon in the river and a blob is a good as it gets. I've only caught a couple in my lifetime. The bait also, in fact, is primarily for flathead catfish. (I never liked night fishing so I never really expected much luck).

 

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Phone

 

I don't know about in England but in Scotland possesion of salmon roe is a criminal offence.

 

Salmon roe

(1)

Any person who buys, sells, exposes for sale or is in possession of any salmon roe shall

be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3

5

on the standard scale.

(2)

Subsection (1) above shall not apply to any person who gives a reason, satisfactory to

the court before which that person is charged, for being in possession of salmon roe.

(3)

It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) above to

prove

—

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(a)

that the roe had been produced in the course of fish farming within the meaning

given by section 33(6) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c.29.); or

(

that that person believed on reasonable grounds that it had been so produced.

(4)

A person who commits an offence under this section may be convicted on the evidence

of one witness.

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(5)

Subsection (3) above is without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (2) above

relating to the circumstances in which subsection (1) above does not apply.

[chesters1]

Seems cheap

https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Elsinore-Salmon-Caviar/49493011?ULP_CAMPAIGN_ID=52&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkKPVBRDtARIsAA2CG6H-l6JlkHJupKUEfMtEVPmv2LERWRPxRQU4SSfYFV9thgt0eWc8iggaArntEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CPbW-Kya7NkCFYsx0wodwgEMsw

Even using the word caviar instead of egg

Edited March 14, 2018 by chesters1

[Steve Walker]

So no salmon roe on sushi in Scotland?

[Phone]

Cory,

 

Interesting - who'da thunk it. We have row after row of roe in tackle shops where trout are the target species.

 

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