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i set some cusk traps up on a bay friday night and had good luck as well. mine were between 20-30 FOW
LOL love it, great story Oddfish and glad the training is going well!!-Scott
a great read! you are the cusk-king! talk about a delicious tasting fish. nice job!!!
Well done! I set lines the other day and got skunked. You win some, you lose some.
I am in the process of forming the opinion that you have to check the lines more than once an evening. Seems like many of them get loose after a time. You can see one of mine that had a line wrap issue. I caught that one on a flag, so it escaped from some other place and was recaught. If I'm on the ice I check them about every half hour.Oddfish
Try increasing your weight size, I find that it does "up the odds" for keeping those fish that are caught over night while traps are unattended.
Hi Randy, Looks like the training is coming along well. The area around my shack is not known for trained cusk, I usually find the infrequent rogue deadbeat cusk that is a "no good for nothing type" too small. But after reading your post and seeing the pics I have renewed vigor and we set out two strings of traps before coming in last night. We're hoping for the best. On the chunk cusk, is that boiled in salt water? have not tried that yet.