This video breaks down effective strategies for targeting burbot during the pre-spawn season, when their behavior and feeding patterns change. Learn where to find pre-spawn burbot, what baits and rigs ...

Burbot, also known as ling, are easily one of the most interesting fish that swim in U.S. lakes and rivers. If you’ve never heard of them, it might be because you’ve never caught one — even if they ...

Jud Kratzer, a fisheries biologist for Vermont Fish and Wildlife, holds a freshly-caught burbot measuring 24.5". Beneath the ice in Vermont’s lakes and streams lives a cold-loving fish with a “beard” ...

This winter, anglers can participate in three fishing derbies and one angler harvest program in southwest Wyoming that promise to be a lot of fun — and ...

In the early 2000s, the world’s only freshwater cod was all but gone from the waters of the Kootenai River in North Idaho and British Columbia. Once counted in the thousands, regional populations of ...

RIVERDALE, S.D. — One may not be the most glamorous of fish. The other has a more storied reputation but remains a rarity in North Dakota waters. Following the completion of a record year of walleye ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Idaho Fish and Game is giving out prizes to anglers fishing for burbot in the Kootenai River. All participating anglers will receive acustomized hat and sticker. They will also be ...

GREEN RIVER, Wyo. — The subzero temperatures Sweetwater County experienced in December should produce some great ice fishing for Flaming Gorge Reservoir anglers. “Flaming Gorge Reservoir is the most ...

SPOKANE, Washington — Idaho has approved a fishing season for burbot after regional populations of the freshwater cod in the Kootenai River numbered about 50,000. The Spokesman-Review reports the ...