Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An angler holds up a burbot he landed while ice fishing. At first glance, a burbot looks like some sort of large, slimy eel. But, ...

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It's not true, Matt Breuer says, that a burbot can wrap itself around an angler's arm like a boa constrictor. "A burbot will try to do that, but it can't," Breuer says. Breuer concedes, however, that ...

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The heavy thump on my rod startled me. The bottom on my Vexilar screen had flickered only for a second before the fish committed. Now, it made powerful runs, peeling line off my reel. It had to be a ...

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 ...

In 2004, there were only 50 surviving burbot in the Kootenai River system. Dam construction and over-fishing caused a decline in the burbot population. The combined efforts of the Ktunaxa Nation ...

Titled “Mink Sink, Swim on Burbot Catch,” the 1954 article featured commercial fishermen who were netting the “voracious predatory monsters” through the ice on Lake of the Woods for use as mink food.

COUER d’ALENE, Id. — The Panhandle Region’s Idaho Fish and Game is giving out free swag to local fishermen. Part of the Kootenai River Angler Science Program, the fishery is doing research on the ...

Geraldine Emerson of Terrebonne was fishing for sturgeon Sunday from a platform below John Day Dam when she hooked a 25-inch burbot. Burbot are a freshwater lingcod-type fish typically found in only ...