Burbot fishing locations?

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Has anyone had any luck catching Burbot around the Bismarck area or surrounding cities? Been checking various spots along the Missouri but still have not been able to catch this specific species
 


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Has anyone had any luck catching Burbot around the Bismarck area or surrounding cities? Been checking various spots along the Missouri but still have not been able to catch this specific species

not this time of year. If you want to catch one now Id suggest tailrace or deep water on sak/audubon. In the spring you can catch them from shore occasionally in the Bismarck area. Ive caught them in Apple Creek on the way out to U of M also, early in the spring.
 

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Got these in the ‘race this spring. MSA showed us the way.
 


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West rocks of the tailrace, heavy non rolling sinker with a half smelt on a circle hook, or West side slackwater in a boat with a half smelt on a jig or a bottom bouncer
 

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There’s a reason they call them poor mans lobster and it’s not cause they taste like lobster. It’s cause you got to be awfully poor to eat one of the gross bastards. I did the boil and dip in butter method. The whole house smelled like sh*t and it tasted like sh*t too.
 

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Sounds like you left some of the dark meat. I prepared them for skeptical souls that gobbled up every piece.
 

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There’s a reason they call them poor mans lobster and it’s not cause they taste like lobster. It’s cause you got to be awfully poor to eat one of the gross bastards. I did the boil and dip in butter method. The whole house smelled like sh*t and it tasted like sh*t too.

Some people would rather eat walleye than pike also, cant account for taste...
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I do agree pike are better flavor wise than walleye. Walleye are just so easy. Hell even catfish and bullhead taste better than walleye IMO
 

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