03-04-2013, 05:21 AM
Well Pizzaman and I hit the Gorge. we left Logan at 8 Pm and were in the water at Firehole fishing at 1 Am(Travel, Food, Walmart, etc).
It was pretty slow until 3. We landed 5 Burbs and a crawdad. 2 and a half each. As you can see in the picture '1 fish 2 jigs' we hooked into the same fish.
We left Firehole for Lost Dog to try and catch some Macs during the day. Pizzaman caught a burbot and a crawdad. I only caught a sun burn. I wouldn't recommend a 2WD car on the road to lost especially on a warm day with snow melting. It was a muddy/boggy mess, but luckily we made it out.
We returned to Firehole and fished until midnight. The fishing was good. We had a tough time hooking the burbs. I think they were just biting the sucker meat. I re-glowed one of my jigs and drop it down and *Whap* I hooked into a big Burbot. Of course it was on the little dink pole with 6lb test. I had a really good fight and brought it up. As soon as it's big head was in the top of the hole it broke off. I stuck my left arm up to elbow in the hole and pinned the fish in the hole. Grabbed the gills with my right hand and pulled out the beast. On further inspection the brute broke the jig (See photo).
I headed home slept and then my roommates and I had a fish fry(Also used the Mac I caught at Bear Lake that was left home marinating in McCormick's Carolina Country during the trip).
Bacon Wrapped Burbot
1 skewer
1 Strip of Bacon
2/3 Chunks of Burbot per skewer
Wrap the bacon around the burbot and bake at 450 for 14 minutes
Poor Man's Lobster
1/2 Sugar
1/4 Salt
# Chunks of Burbot
3 TSP Butter (Melted)
Bring pot with water, salt, and sugar to boil. Add Burbot. Cook for about 7-10 minutes. Remove from heat. Pluck Burbot chunks out with fork and dip in melted butter.
Breaded Burbot
1/2 cup Lemon Juice
4 eggs (beaten)
2 slices of Bread (crumbled)
# of Burbot Filets
1/8 cup of olive oil
Place Burbot filets in lemon juice in one bowl
Beat eggs in another bowl
Crumble bread in another bowl
Place olive oil in pan.
Take burbot filet from lemon to egg to bread. Place in pan and cook until light brown on both sides
Burbot/Mac Tacos
2 cups flour
2 TSP corn starch
Beer
# of Burbot/Mac Chunks
3 cups Vegetable Oil
Sour Cream
Salsa
Cheese
Tortillas
Mix flour & corn starch add beer to achieve desired batter thickness. Place fish in the batter. Heat the oil. Place battered chunks in the oil and cook until they are golden brown. Make your tortilla ( I put sour cream ans salsa on the bottom add fish sprinkle with cheese)
Fried Burbot/Mac
Olive oil/ vegetable oil/butter
# of fillets or chunks
Just throw in the fish with and spices and cook until golden brown.
All these methods resulted in great tasting fish. I would have to say that Poor Man's Lobster was the best.
[b]Some thoughts.[/b]
I am not really sure how much glowing helps. We caught a bunch of Burbs on jigs that were not re-glown for a good half hour.
People shouldn't buy the same bells that I was using. I had the burbot fever bad and thought I heard my bells going off.
The bite was light, so the bells were ineffective.
It seemed like we caught more fish in the dark areas. Areas where we not constantly sitting with our head lamps.
You know you are two close to the bottom when you are catching crawdads.
The fish were full of small crawdads (inch to and inch in a half), but crawdad meat was not effective.
The ice was pushing 3 feet thick, but I don't know if I would drive a Duramax with a trailer out onto a lake no matter the circumstances.
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It was pretty slow until 3. We landed 5 Burbs and a crawdad. 2 and a half each. As you can see in the picture '1 fish 2 jigs' we hooked into the same fish.
We left Firehole for Lost Dog to try and catch some Macs during the day. Pizzaman caught a burbot and a crawdad. I only caught a sun burn. I wouldn't recommend a 2WD car on the road to lost especially on a warm day with snow melting. It was a muddy/boggy mess, but luckily we made it out.
We returned to Firehole and fished until midnight. The fishing was good. We had a tough time hooking the burbs. I think they were just biting the sucker meat. I re-glowed one of my jigs and drop it down and *Whap* I hooked into a big Burbot. Of course it was on the little dink pole with 6lb test. I had a really good fight and brought it up. As soon as it's big head was in the top of the hole it broke off. I stuck my left arm up to elbow in the hole and pinned the fish in the hole. Grabbed the gills with my right hand and pulled out the beast. On further inspection the brute broke the jig (See photo).
I headed home slept and then my roommates and I had a fish fry(Also used the Mac I caught at Bear Lake that was left home marinating in McCormick's Carolina Country during the trip).
Bacon Wrapped Burbot
1 skewer
1 Strip of Bacon
2/3 Chunks of Burbot per skewer
Wrap the bacon around the burbot and bake at 450 for 14 minutes
Poor Man's Lobster
1/2 Sugar
1/4 Salt
# Chunks of Burbot
3 TSP Butter (Melted)
Bring pot with water, salt, and sugar to boil. Add Burbot. Cook for about 7-10 minutes. Remove from heat. Pluck Burbot chunks out with fork and dip in melted butter.
Breaded Burbot
1/2 cup Lemon Juice
4 eggs (beaten)
2 slices of Bread (crumbled)
# of Burbot Filets
1/8 cup of olive oil
Place Burbot filets in lemon juice in one bowl
Beat eggs in another bowl
Crumble bread in another bowl
Place olive oil in pan.
Take burbot filet from lemon to egg to bread. Place in pan and cook until light brown on both sides
Burbot/Mac Tacos
2 cups flour
2 TSP corn starch
Beer
# of Burbot/Mac Chunks
3 cups Vegetable Oil
Sour Cream
Salsa
Cheese
Tortillas
Mix flour & corn starch add beer to achieve desired batter thickness. Place fish in the batter. Heat the oil. Place battered chunks in the oil and cook until they are golden brown. Make your tortilla ( I put sour cream ans salsa on the bottom add fish sprinkle with cheese)
Fried Burbot/Mac
Olive oil/ vegetable oil/butter
# of fillets or chunks
Just throw in the fish with and spices and cook until golden brown.
All these methods resulted in great tasting fish. I would have to say that Poor Man's Lobster was the best.
[b]Some thoughts.[/b]
I am not really sure how much glowing helps. We caught a bunch of Burbs on jigs that were not re-glown for a good half hour.
People shouldn't buy the same bells that I was using. I had the burbot fever bad and thought I heard my bells going off.
The bite was light, so the bells were ineffective.
It seemed like we caught more fish in the dark areas. Areas where we not constantly sitting with our head lamps.
You know you are two close to the bottom when you are catching crawdads.
The fish were full of small crawdads (inch to and inch in a half), but crawdad meat was not effective.
The ice was pushing 3 feet thick, but I don't know if I would drive a Duramax with a trailer out onto a lake no matter the circumstances.
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