about 1.5ft.
About 2ā compacted on ground here. Hoping Keewenaw Bay freezes over soon. The boys and I would like to get out and catch some lake whitefish.
we have them here too but overfishing and competition from other species has wiped them out from most of the lakes around here, there are only a handful left that support good populations. pound for pound they are the hardest fighting fish Iāve ever caught and damned fine eating as well. smoked whitefish was a common delicacy here up till about 20 yrs ago. my p.b was caught in the mid 80ās while fishing on a remote lake with my grandfather. just over 7lbs. caught it jigging with a 3/4oz silver/ blue swedish pimple tipped with a strip of smeltā¦ i thought i had a 20lb. laker on. we jigged with 30lb black nylon line back then and handlined them in once hooked. got some line burn from that bugger.
Nice! I am pretty sure all northeners have swedish pimples in their arsenals. Whitefish seem to be holding their own pretty well in Superior. l to think they are about the best fish for eating. Tie with burbot in my book. Had a local Ojibwa fishmonger give me a big burbot a few weeks ago when I bought some lake trout and salmon. Donāt think he can find buyers for 'em. Gross looking fish; absolutely superb eating. Used to hoop-net them from our local river around Christmas/New Year with smelt for bait. We have been using yellow perch more for cut bait lately.
Would have been a nice day to hike down the Grand Canyon to the Colorado Riverā¦ At the trailhead it was 60F with temps in the 70Fs down by the river.
Got up to 65Ā°f today, very nice. Itās supposed to get mostly below freezing consistently after tomorrow, too bad we couldnāt have a few more days like today to get rid of some of this mud.
2 weeks in the 70s is going to wake up most of my fruit trees, regardless of what the rest of winter has in store for us down here.
Nothing i can do if I end up losing fruit chances.
burbot are called cusk here and lakers are called togue. both are native names. cusk are darn good eating and called the poor mans lobstah here. we just had a derby and the winning cusk was 12lbs. lots of meat on that one. for the folks not familiar, they look like a cross between a eel and a catfish with a mottled brown color. the ones we caught ice fishing in A.K were green and brown. the fish fillet sandwich at mcds is supposedly whitefish but i think is the saltwater version. they are excellent eating.
Local name for burbot here is ālawyersā.
Burbot in MN=eel pout
In WI we also called them lawyers. Delicious when boiled and eaten with drawn butter. Disgusting when fried
High today is going to be 76. Trees are getting ready to pop. Think Iāll do some pruning today. Two weeks ago, the high was 19Ā°. I hope the groundhog is wrong And no more hard freezes. I know two years ago, We had a late February early March freeze and I lost all of my blossoms.
Must have got close to 10" from a couple rounds of snow over the weekend. Sounds like more may be on the way.
Good time to head to SW FL for a few weeks I think
got about 3-4in. more today. should be enough to get the trails somewhat groomed. my brothers a mechanic at a skidoo dealer. sled sales are down 80% and he has very little work right now.
Funny how many different names they have. In western Canada Iāve heard burbot or freshwater ling.
Weāre finally getting some cold weather here in central BC this week. Lows around 0F, pretty typical winter cold spell. Itās been crazy warm up until now though, barely got below freezing through mid January.
Nothing here. Just some sprinkles today. My brother was up in Eau Claire this morning and said they were plowing the roads up there.
Theyāre talking ice storm for overnite. Forecasts for here seem to predict a minor event. Hope so.
Read all your discussions about Burbot. I googled it on internet, it sounds like a delicious fish. They should throw some into the river that has Asia carp problems. Let fish take care other fish, not taxpayers money.
ive never heard of them in moving water. they are usually a deep-water lake fish only going into the shallows in Feb. to spawn. sad you folks have that carp problem. hopefully they dont make it into the great lakes.
Carps are in the great lakes. Itās time to come up recipes and enjoy the natural resources. They are healthy food, high proteins and tasted delicious
i would have thought someone would net these fish and send the fillets to Asia where they love carp. couldnāt be hard to net a ton of them. or sell to a organic fertilizer company for fish meal.