fresh water ling- burbot

[shoot-em-dead]

I was looking at popes ling and it made me hungry. In lake Roosevelt they have these fresh water lings and most folks I've talked to say they caught them by chance with walleye gear.  Has anybody ever went out and targeted these fish and if so, how do I go about it?

[SHANE(WA)]

I have caught small ones on worms in rufous woods
years ago my dad hooked a huge one in Bead lk using a chunk of a trout, broke him off

[goosegetter79]

We've got a cabin on sullivan lake and we target kokanee during the day and the freshwater ling (burbot) at night. We use glow in the dark buzz bombs tipped with nightcrawlers or chunks of suckerfish. Biggest we've caught out of sullivan is 23". Good luck and let us know how you do.

[TeacherMan]

We target them on Sullivan, night time is better but we have got them during the day. Standard walleye gear. Last year me and my dad got about about 20 of themin two days in July. Plan on doing it again this year with my camera on the boat as well.

[goosegetter79]

Teacherman, where on sullivan do you go we've caught them on both ends of the lake but had better luck towards noisy creek. You ever ice fish for them I hear theres quite a few people fishing for them through the ice on sullivan but never done it myself.

[Happy Gilmore]

A best friend Ryan used to work at the Chelan Hatchery. I volunteered to help on a burbot study. As part of the study, we assisted the State biologist with a Burbot survey in Lake Chelan. I believe this is legal to fish this way for burbot but double check.

We took weighted PVC tubes which had leaders secured by pop rivets every 18". I think there were about 5 leaders per pipe section. We sank the baited hooks secured to the tubes and left them on a buoy. We returned the next day, pulled the gear and took measurements and weights on the fish. I honestly can't remember what we used for bait. We had bait stolen from all the rigs and caught 5 fish. I'd never even heard of Burbot before Ryan asked if I wanted to go out and help. This was in 2002. Hap

[newbs55]

Yep at roosevelt find anywhere in 30-50 feet of water with a rocky bottom and jig for them at night. we just use jig heads loaded with nightcrawlers. my buddy used a glow rubber tailed jig last year and he caught some but nightcrawlers seem to work better. Make sure you load them up. It also helps if you go when there is a moon out when you are night fishing in the summer, not full moon but on either side of a full moon (Week before or week after)

[TeacherMan]

Teacherman, where on sullivan do you go we've caught them on both ends of the lake but had better luck towards noisy creek. You ever ice fish for them I hear theres quite a few people fishing for them through the ice on sullivan but never done it myself.

The noisey creek end. Never got them on the upper end.