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| Looking for feedback on it. ie - experiences good or bad,where's a good place to rent fish houses,baits-tackle recommend,ect.Thanks in advance. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Youll never forget it haha!
Check it out its a ton of fun |
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Location: Walker, MN | It's a good time, not really family friendly though. Most don't ever drop a line down.
If you fish, rattle spoons and live minnows work great. Fish the edge of a hump or flat with deep water egress. Basically just fish for Walleyes. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Yeah I would agree its not really a family event haha.
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Location: MN | kyle smoker tackle - 12/17/2014 1:05 AM
baits-tackle recommend,ect.
You won't be needing any tackle or baits. Just bring plenty of booze and a willing liver. |
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| its a big drunken party is all. no fish really involved for the most part. a lot of trash left all over lake and chaos made all over town. if you want to fish pout for the fun of it go out in the first week of march when there spawning and find the steepest drop/break you can find and jig glow in the dark spoons with minnows on them off the bottom and youll crush em. |
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Location: Minnesota | It's a party. If your going to fish go a different weekend. If you want to party its a blast not a place for kids |
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Location: Already Gone | Do those things taste good? How would you fix one, fry it? |
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Location: Minnesota | It's the poor man's lobster |
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| "Poor man's Lobster" ....I had it in a restaurant in MN once it was excellent! They are in the Cod family. |
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Location: Smith Creek | IAJustin - 12/22/2014 12:19 PM
"Poor man's Lobster" ....I had it in a restaurant in MN once it was excellent! They are in the Cod family.
Was it actually pout or was it "poor man's lobster"?
I've never heard of commercially harvested pout, and every restaurant in WI and MN has Poor Man's on the menu, it's our way of saying "poached white-fleshed fish with drawn butter". |
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Location: MN | Most people boil pout in butter or mountain dew. Some folks fry it. I've had it all three ways and I like it boiled in butter the best. The "back straps" are the best meat. They clean similar to a catfish but not quite as easy. There are some good how-to videos online to help with cleaning. |
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| Flambeauski - 12/22/2014 12:58 PM
IAJustin - 12/22/2014 12:19 PM
"Poor man's Lobster" ....I had it in a restaurant in MN once it was excellent! They are in the Cod family.
Was it actually pout or was it "poor man's lobster"?
I've never heard of commercially harvested pout, and every restaurant in WI and MN has Poor Man's on the menu, it's our way of saying "poached white-fleshed fish with drawn butter".
It was fish  We were told it was eelpout...over 20 years ago, little restaurant in Bemidji. I spent a lot of time up there my grandparents had a cabin just north of town, my grandfather would order it whenever it was the special. |
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| yah you skin them things like people would skin bullheads ect. you can fry, bake or boil them. Boiling them seems to be the best and then you dip them in butter. also try the famous pout popcorn wich is little pieces deep fat fried that look like popcorn kinda and there good too.
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| Their livers are good too! |
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Location: one foot over the line | IAJustin - 12/22/2014 3:32 PM
Flambeauski - 12/22/2014 12:58 PM
IAJustin - 12/22/2014 12:19 PM
"Poor man's Lobster" ....I had it in a restaurant in MN once it was excellent! They are in the Cod family.
Was it actually pout or was it "poor man's lobster"?
I've never heard of commercially harvested pout, and every restaurant in WI and MN has Poor Man's on the menu, it's our way of saying "poached white-fleshed fish with drawn butter".
It was fish We were told it was eelpout...over 20 years ago, little restaurant in Bemidji. I spent a lot of time up there my grandparents had a cabin just north of town, my grandfather would order it whenever it was the special.
Sounds to me like someone had their leg pulled. |
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| Not sure if they still do, but there is a small diner on Washington Island that serves it daily. Never tried it but supposed to be good. Years ago caught them on the Three Lakes chain while jigging for walleyes at night. |
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| Last time I was at the pout festival which was about 15 years ago they served it at a food booth. They served it deep fried. It was OK nothing to get to excited about. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Boiled in sprite and dipped in butter they are pretty good.
Then again anything dipped in butter is good.... |
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Location: The desert | Flambeauski - 12/22/2014 12:58 PM
IAJustin - 12/22/2014 12:19 PM
"Poor man's Lobster" ....I had it in a restaurant in MN once it was excellent! They are in the Cod family.
Was it actually pout or was it "poor man's lobster"?
I've never heard of commercially harvested pout, and every restaurant in WI and MN has Poor Man's on the menu, it's our way of saying "poached white-fleshed fish with drawn butter".
There's a restaurant in Door County that serves it. It's on the menu as lawyer.
It's fantastic table fare. |
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Location: Mayville, WI | Husby's in Sister Bay has it on the Friday menu, get there early cause they typically run out. Delicious!
Edited by scmuskies 1/7/2015 10:07 AM
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| They had pout at both sea salt cafe locations in MInneapolis the one at minnehaha falls and on the shore of lake Calhoun,,last thing left in their freezer when they would close in the fall,,not a popular dish with the yuppies. |
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| Are you talking about the eelpout festival in Minnesota or are you talking about the Battle on 'Bago? Last year's edition of that tournament was an eelpout festival. |
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Location: Northern IL | I've caught a couple of these creatures by mistake I guess jigging for walleye and sm. in deep water but my real question is what would be considered a big or average size burbot. How big do the get?
The first time I hooked into one I got it boat side but shook off. We saw it but really didn't know what it was, thought it was a flat head at first by the color. The following day jigging on the same spot hooked into another but this time it stuck. (the one in the pic) We now joke as burbot now being our fish of choice on every Canadian trip.
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| That is a dandy burbot (ling) and they are great eating. Nice catch. Eelpout are actually saltwater fish, but so similar in looks that the name is often used interchangeably for burbot. |
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Location: The desert | Dog Lake - 1/7/2015 10:15 PM
That is a dandy burbot (ling) and they are great eating. Nice catch. Eelpout are actually saltwater fish, but so similar in looks that the name is often used interchangeably for burbot.
You are correct on the eelpout being an incorrect name, but ling is also incorrect. The ling (Molva molva) is a marine fish. The burbot (Lota lota) is closely related to the ling, but it is not a ling. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | So is it a burbot then? We always just called them lawyers for obvious slime related reasons haha |
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Location: Smith Creek | That's a pretty nice fish, Jerry. Adult, good eater. Most state records are in the 18-20 lb range, the WR is 25.2 lbs from Canada.
My understanding is that are most closely related to the cusk.
If a guy wants to get technical he calls them lota lota, I call em pout or burbot. I have too much respect for the fish to refer to them as lawyers. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | I have too much respect for the fish to refer to them as lawyers.
Haha that is valid point! Im going to have to stop |
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Location: The desert | Burbot would be the most correct term. But lawyer or marriah are also acceptable. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | We have them here in Lake Michigan. I caught two of them while fishing in 56 feet of water for perch. I have heard them called Ling Cod, Lawyers, Eel Pout, Burbot and fresh water codfish. Ugly but they are supposed to be great eating with firm mild flesh throughout the entire body. e also used to joke around abut things like the perfect eel pout boat sponsors etc. interesting fish though. Mike |
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| used to catch a lot of 9 lbers on Leech was common with a few 10-13lbs here and there. A 2 person team could catch 70-90lbs of fish in a couple hrs back in the day but the festival has really hurt the numbers. Size is way down two of course a 7 lber is a good fish now it seems. A lot of people think they are just a worthless bottom feeder but in my opinion I think that the majority of there diet is crayfish, I would say maybe around 90% even. When the rusty crayfish invaded Leech Lake it dint help that the eelpout numbers were way down. Maybe the mile long weed beds would of standed a chance? |
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Location: Bemidji | Ate eelpout last week. The backstraps are best boiled in Squirt and we pan fry the tail section.
Eelpout fest is a party on the ice. There isn't any serious fishing that takes place. Decide to get out of control and you have to clean up when the party is over on Sunday or go to jail. Your choice. The clean up isn't bad. |
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