In the rugged expanses of southwest Wyoming, where the crisp winter air meets vast reservoirs, a call to arms is going out to ...

Last weekend’s lake trout opener found me sitting in the company of my wife’s uncles on Saganaga Lake, set up in 40 feet of water and hoping to spy a mark on the humming dial of my SONAR flasher. Lake ...

A big fish: The fish, pronounced "burr-but," are the only freshwater members of the cod family. They're also known as ling, eelpout and lawyer. Burbot have a greenish tinge and long, round-tipped ...

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Slimy. Fat. And, in its own special way, beautiful. Brent Getzler of Roosevelt, Minn., poses with a 19-pound, 10-ounce burbot he caught while ice fishing the Minnesota waters of Lake of the Woods Dec.

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” ...

One of these things is very much not like the others: common carp, Asian carp, sea lamprey and burbot. The answer is obvious to most anglers and conservationists but merits explanation. Even more ...

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 ...

The January/February edition of “Pages of Time,” a newsletter published by the Roseau County Historical Society – of which I’m a member – included a “willies”-inducing” article about burbot that ...

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 ...

Some people consider the burbot the "Rodney Dangerfield" of the fish world. With a flattened head and eel-like body, it doesn't win many beauty contests. And too often it gets "no respect," as the ...