Burbot help

[perchking4ever]

Looking to Target Burbot this year. Never caught one so any tips would be appreciated. I hear they are in Champlain and Oneida. Anywhere else?

[trapper2000]

yes they are in other places as well

[trapper2000]

https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/94599.html

[oldbuck]

im not sure if you can target burbot because i think the population is pretty small in new york. I usually catch one or two every winter when im fishing for walleye and perch.

[claymore6]

I usually catch a few most days on Oneida in January/February. Best on gravel bars (where they spawn) at dawn and dusk. They pretty much hit the same lures I am using for Perch; spoons and jigs tipped with emerald shiners. Nice fight and good eating. I also pick up more than a few that other fisherman have thrown away on the ice. It seems a lot of NY fisherman do not appreciate the "slimers"

[Birdslayer]

I usually catch a few most days on Oneida in January/February. Best on gravel bars (where they spawn) at dawn and dusk. They pretty much hit the same lures I am using for Perch; spoons and jigs tipped with emerald shiners. Nice fight and good eating. I also pick up more than a few that other fisherman have thrown away on the ice. It seems a lot of NY fisherman do not appreciate the "slimers"

Your right I pick more than a few off the ice as well because they are good eating!! I wish people would throw them back if they don't like cleaning them!! What a waste of a good tasting, hard fighting fish!!!! Some people think that they are invasive and they are not.... as far as finding them, any body of water attached to Lake Ontario will have them.

[perchking4ever]

Anyone ever hear of them being caught out if the Erie canal?

[FISHN NIK]

kinda interested myself,anyone target these freshwater lobsters and have any advice besides Oneida and Lake Ontario?I live off lake Erie in Dunkirk so any advice in that area would be appreciated.


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