Burbot help?

[quadrafire]

Fished Bead lake in NE wash this weekend. No luck. Anyone have any advice. I was jigging w/ nightcrawlers in about 100-120 ft of water.
I caught one once on Roosevelt doing the same, but not nearly as deep. Didn't have a fish finder to locate them, so was fishing blind.

[bearpaw]

I used to fish for burbot all the time years ago. Nightcrawlers worked OK.

To really catch burbot we would go fishing for peemouth (scrapfish) in the Columbia, about half the peemouth had tapeworm, you could lay them on a rock, stomp on them and the tapeworm would squirt out. That was the best bait I ever saw for burbot.

A tip that might help, we seemed to catch the most burbot from dark until midnight. We also were bank fishing with a heavy sinker on the end with baited hooks about 1 and 2 feet up the line from the sinker.

Caught them other ways, but that was most effective for us.

I should add, they do a lot of jigging for burbot near Balfour on Kootenay Lake in BC. Caught a few there doing that, but you had to be in the right burbot hole or little luck, maybe ask around and find out where the burbot are at on Bead LK.

[quadrafire]

To really catch burbot we would go fishing for peemouth (scrapfish) in the Columbia, about half the peemouth had tapeworm, you could lay them on a rock, stomp on them and the tapeworm would squirt out. That was the best bait I ever saw for burbot.

How on earth, did you ever figure that out Now that is hard core bait gathering.

Hardly anyone fishing when I was there. Another boat came up to us wondering if we had any ideas. So not alot of knowlege on the water that day. My daughter was with me, and she doesn't like to jig for very long. I have heard the night was best, but we were sitting by the fire at our campsite

[Elkrunner]

I have never been but always wanted to try for them. 

[pendoreilleadventures]

I use crocodiles or cripple herrings 4oz with night crawlers

[WAcoyotehunter]

Fish nights with a big wad of nightcrawlers.  I have also heard that fishing the 'mud line' when a tributary is high after a big rain is the best.  Fishing on the bottom with jigs and big "clunking" drops. 

[Elkrunner]

Does anyone have any pics of ones they have caught?

[quadrafire]

Does anyone have any pics of ones they have caught?

I don't, but I googled them today. looks like a cross between and eel and a catfish.

[bearpaw]

Does anyone have any pics of ones they have caught?

I don't, but I googled them today. looks like a cross between and eel and a catfish.

That's a pretty good description.... 
They are really good eating... 

Try calling Region 1 and ask for their fish biologist that would know Bead Lake, then tell him you need to know more about fishing for them. I have fond most bios to be very helpful. 

[Ridgeratt]

They look like a baseball bat with teeth!!

[goosegetter79]

We start fishing for them just after dark from a boat on sullivan lake (helps that we have a cabin on the lake). We use glow in the dark buzz bombs tipped with night crawlers and sometimes nothing on the hook. Just slowly jig it right off the bottom bring it up about 6 inches or so and slowly drop it back down. We've fished the north and south end of the lake but have had better luck on the south end next to the rock cliffs in about 40 ft of water. Good luck.

[goosegetter79]

Here's a pic I found of one that I just happened to catch during the middle of the day off the dock with a nightcrawler on the bottom of the lake.

[Mossy]

Ah, snake heads....Went out to bead a few weeks back.  A buddy of mine caught one just before dark with a heavy spoon and a night crawler jigging off the bottom in about 50ft of water.

[HighCountryHunter88]

not a snake head, HUGE differnce!!!! a bubot is a sort of ling, and a snake head is a non native fish that absolutly devistates our ecosystems here is a like so people can see the difference in looks and such..
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/uwexlakes/cbcw/Pubs/catchsnakehead_FH-715.pdf

[FC]

Do burbot taste much like a saltwater ling?