Burbot is a freshwater cod that has adapted to cold waterways like Lake Superior. The eel-like species goes by many names: ...

Burbot bite best in winter, especially at night, sometimes frustrating those who target walleyes. It’s one of the few fish species that spawns beneath the ice in midwinter.

Ice fishing at night can be dangerous because it’s much harder to spot thin ice. But it’s a good way to catch burbot, which one angler calls "poor ...

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Few anglers respect the burbot, that snaky, slimy, eel-like codfish that lurks in the depths of Minnesota's big lakes. Most say it's downright ugly. Some say it's the "ish" of fish.

An Indiana angler has shattered a state record with his recent Lake Michigan catch of a 14-pound, 3.6-ounce burbot. Anthony Burke’s catch on Jan. 6 eclipsed the previous record by nearly three pounds ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Idaho wildlife authorities are encouraging burbot anglers to take part in the 2024 Kootenai River Angler Science Program. To participate, anglers must pickup, complete and return a ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Idaho Fish and Game is reminding burbot anglers to turn in their creel packets by May 1 to be entered into a prize raffle. The packets are part of thethe 2024 Kootenai River Angler ...

Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials are asking anglers in the upper Wind River Basin to return orange tags they catch on burbot. Each returned tag earns the angler $10. Researchers tagged more ...

Five more burbot joined the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery's collection of brood stock, bringing its total of the eel-like fish to 11. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fisheries biologists used ...