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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Eelpout => Topic started by: fishermanjake on Feb 24, 2004, 01:38 PM
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Ok first, take your burbot and secure its head, it works good if you cut under their jaw and hang them up.
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next take your knife and cut around their head just below the pectoral fins and gill plate.
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take your pliers and pull the skin away from the meat all around the cut you just made.
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pull the skin down the body of the fish, it peels right off...sometimes it grabs a little belly meat. don't worry about it. Also, alot of times the skin will break while puling down, just take your pliers and grab the top of the remaining skin and pul down.
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Next, (optional) remove the dorsal and anal fins by taking the pliers to the bottom of each fin and pull up towards the head.
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this gives you a nice groove to guide your knife while you fillet and makes your fillets come off cleaner
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make a cut behind the pectoral fin perpendicular to the backbone
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then run the knife along and parallel to the backbone down to the ribs on the same side.
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after you get past the ribs, push the knife all the way through and cut parallel to the spine till the end of the fillet.
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pull the meat away and cut it away from the ribs,
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when you get to where the ribs get easy to cut through slice down the ribs and cut through the belly meat where desired to remove the fillet.
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one burbot fillet coming up!
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do the same on the other side.
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Alright! sweet success 8)
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dispose of the burbot carcass responsibly.
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8) Well done Jake!
-Scott
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I would Like to thank Jake for His Photo's. They are well descriptive and Very easy to follow. Burbot Cleaning for Dummies book coming up. LOL. ALso jake your idea is great because your right near the dumpster no mess for you to bring home..Just nice fillets of burbot. (Claps for jake) Thanks Jake for your time and effort on this burbot lesson. Ill be hanging them from now on:> Thanks again.
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Good post dude. Now if I could only catch one of them! :)
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I know, I have never even seen one.. I wanna
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Thanks Jake! That was awesome! Now, If I can only get the nerve up to eat one of these grusome monsters, I will follow these instructions. Can you post some pike cleaning instructions?
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Excellent pictorial, Jake - thanks for taking the time! I'm gonna tell other's in Maine about this post!
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A friend from work showed me the same thing last year. Works awesome!
Jake you post some good picks, , , please keep'em coming. Wat the largest Ling you've cought? & do you have some picks to share? Thanks A bunch, , ,
Whiskey
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Easy whiskey. Careful on Jake. He got hooked up with some woman last summer that doesn't think much of his fishing ways. He is only 22 yrs old and is following her every wish. I thought you couldn't bring a good fisherman down but i guess I was wrong. He has retired from fishing for this year, just give him some time for the relationship to settle down. He will be back. I've been there and done that. He also says he is very busy with school and work ??? ??? ??? I'm quite disappointed that I won't be getting some competition from him in the tourney this year. Check alot of previous posts here and he has some pics of bigger ones. They are similar to the ones you showed me. Nice, thick and long. He fishes a river for them up in Alaska, or should I say used to fish there.
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Yes Terry I think we might have to have a memorial day for the once mighty slayer of Ling ,,,Fishermanjake . :'( Who would have thunkit that our fellow warrior on the ice would have been so easily smitten by the batting of an eyelash from a young filly :-\ .It seems the Ling no longer hold the attention of the former Fishermanjake . I guess maybe we have to call on the Ling god to save the former Fishermanjake before he buys a ring . ;)
TD
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Its probably too late for the ring thing. But ya gotta believe he will be back someday. May take awhile but I'm sure he will be cuddling up to his filly one night, when he will get a whiff something fishy... the lights will come on... and he will remember all the beautiful ling he used to fillet. And suddenly the fish in bed won't look as good as the fish in his memory.....
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Terry I think you should be a poet , , ,or , , , something!!! Well spoken words, , , and , , , stuff, , , Eh!
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I dont profess to be a burbot cleaning expert, by any stretch of the imagination, but that method seems a little rough. This is how I do mine now...I just learned how, and would never go back.
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I,ve done your method as well kill&grill. A lot less work but you lose more meat along the spine close to the back bone. As you can see from your pic, there is a little still there. Just cut over the spine instead of down both sides and remove the little skin flap (that was left in your pic) then you can fillet closer. I cut down both mudlines and and then connect the 2 lines over the top. I noticed also you left out the best part, the cheeks. Yum Yum :P
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I've done both ways.
The thing I like about Jake's way is:
when you pull the skin off, it's like turning a sock inside out. You then don't have to deal with all that slime because it ends up inside of the sock.
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Potato: Po tato. She tastes good.
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After skinning afew burbot this winter, I thought fishermanjake's way was the only way to go....until i followed killitandgrillit's method....no more skinning for me....Grump 8)
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Terry- Im not entirely sure where the Potato bit came from
Grump- Yup, I used to be a skinner too. I wouldnt even consider doing it any other way now.
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K&G, terry is just trying to say "to each his own" both methods are good. I personally cant beleive you guys eat those things.
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K&G, terry is just trying to say "to each his own" both methods are good. I personally cant beleive you guys eat those things.
.....icejunky.....for years I would cut the line whenever I hooked one.....Ontario raised boy knew no better.....last year I was determined to get past the look/squirming fish and try it.....Never again will one go back.....my oldest grandsons are typical picky young boys that would rather eat captain highliner nuggets.....and when I deep fried the burbot......there was no stopping them.....Grump
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...Im not usually your picky eater, I love all seafood Squid and Octopuss, mussles and all. But That fish creeps me out. I still want to catch one.
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icejunky....I pretty well have tried most of the seafood available from around the world......and there's dozens of things I probably wouldnt try again....but burbot is not one of them....ymmmmmmmmmm... ..Grump
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Ditto what Grump said Icejunky. Give them a try!!! 8)
I grew up fishing walleye and sauger throughout the Fox River valley of Wisconsin. The burbot or "lawyers" that we caught were nice but NEVER kept! When I moved to Alaska, I was convinced by my native fishing partner that our burbot were really edible. Now taking any culinary advise from someone who thinks seal oil is the best dipping sauce on earth, may have been a risk. :-X So with hesitation..... I tried it out, and never tossed another burbot back.
Guess it "may be" where you live? Perhaps in your area burbot taste nasty? Maybe not? I wouldn't eat a burbot out of some of the cesspools I fished back in Wisconsin, but other waterways were crystal clear and probably supported great eating burbot.
Burbot have been confused with the likes of carp, drum, and other bottom feeders. Truth is, burbot do feed on the bottom, but they like fast food and not organic settled solids. Our burbot feed mostly on baitfish and sea lamprey in a river flowing at 7 knots, not easy for a slow bottom feeder. Guess I could go on and on.... but it's up to the individual! Somedays, I wish more folks wouldn't target burbot! There's a couple areas around my area that are actually overfished, and have been shutdown or restricted greatly. :-[
Sorry I rambled... Burbs are pretty tasty Icejunky! ;) We'll give you plenty of recipes...
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I love sa burbot :P
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Taste good, even out of my shorts :woot:
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Never would have guessed that was coming TGF...for those of you not sure about eating burbot, remember that they are the only freshwater members of the cod family...so if you are good with cod, you may as well try their cousins.
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LMHO! Terry ya look like a grizz! Hope you don't smell like one! :D Oh man! The rest of your photos finally developed! Whoa! WoW, I see the bush is getting to you Terry, time for a little R&R where you not exposed to any fish or small mammals. 8) Germ, You thought YOU got worked up over lings! Let's see some Germ on Burb love... keep it G rated! ;D
Slipbob- Catch a couple for me! You'll be happy with em'. Poor mans lobster!
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Germs fish are just babies and that would be incestuous ;D
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OH, I get the Potato thing now. Thanks for cluing me in.
TGF...holy man. That is wrong on so many levels. French kissing a burbot..I know you said you loved burbot, but not that you LOVED them. PITA (the animal rights group) would have a feild day with funky burbot loving :P
What I like is the loving look in your eye on the third photo, and the "holy $h!t" look on the burbot's face. Ok, maybe it's just that his jaw is stretched way out.
Most of us dont kiss our women that well. Funny nonetheless.
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Barelydog, if you ate walleye out of the fox river ??? a lil ol burbot would some fine eating! :P ;D
-Scott
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yeah, anything out of the fox would be pretty questionable.
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Yeah Scott, I used to fish the big walleye runs every spring on the Fox, maybe that's why I twitch uncontrollably? :blink: Used to ice fish Butte des Mortes, Poygon, and a couple other tribes off of lake Winne-septic. :sick: I pray someday the state of Wis. will be clean up these fisheries, but highly doubt it.