ling.... poor mans lobster???

[Colonel Angus]

Anyone fish the eelpout festival this year? Heard it got a little sloppy on the ice.

 

[snow]

check your frozen fish section next time shopping,they call'em "ling code" we always called them "laywers" because they always have a smile... I see the world record is 25lbs! bad enough catching 4-5lb'ers,most often they come up the hole tail 1st. The state of Utah has a ling catch and no release policy as these fish prey on trout and salmon eggs.

Summer month here in Mn fishing mille lacs we would bump into these fish laying along the edges of the mud flats in deep water via camera,rare to catch these fish in open water,they were burrowed into the mud and always near "blood worm" colonies,figured food of choice during summer months.

 

[guywhofishes]

I like ling.

googling "ling" made me sad

 

[Kurtr]

Spring time northern fishing we catch a few 10 plus pounders down here

 

[all4eyes]

Not bad boiled in milk. If you do catch one cut the stomach open, you won't believe what they can eat.

 

[WLYHNTR]

Ling love you long time

 

[Rowdie]

You guys are cooking them all wrong. You need too get a bunch of that gumbo shale shorline MUD. Do NOT clean the ling...just pack it it mud and then wrap in alm foil. Bake at 400 for an hour. then at 250 for 3 hrs. Take it out and seperate the mud from fish. Throw away ling and eat the mud.

 

[DirtyMike]

Anyone fish the eelpout festival this year? Heard it got a little sloppy on the ice.

Had a friend there. Based on his snap chats, he's the reasoning behind the sloppiness.

 

[ItemB]

Boiling them or northern in sprite or 7up makes it to sweet for my liking. Rarely clean or eat ling but for pike I just boil in salt water with a pinch of sugar.

 

[Colonel Angus]

Caught some in LOW years back, the guide would batter and fry the backstraps and they were pretty good. I wonder what one would be like on a stick with corn dog batter (pout dog)....might be the next big hit at the eelpout festival, or maybe they already do that.

 

[Ristorapper]

Nope, NOT lobster, but when cleaned as MSA describes, boiled in water with equal amounts of sugar and salt, and served with melted butter. Them slimy snake lookin' ugly fish serve up pretty good with a green vegetable, wild rice, and garlic toast.

Pike as well, at least for variety

 

[Sub_Elect]

I was once buffaloed into the lie that paddlefish tasted like "poor mans lobster". Now I laugh when ever someone says something tastes like "poor mans lobster". I think they have never eaten lobster!

 

[Baydoe]

I think they have never eaten lobster!

that's what i'm beginning to think!

 

[BotnoJoe]

My grandma grew up in Newfoundland. According to her lobster was a poor mans food back then. They fed it to dogs and prisoners. Just thought that was interesting

 

[Baydoe]

You guys are cooking them all wrong. You need too get a bunch of that gumbo shale shorline MUD. Do NOT clean the ling...just pack it it mud and then wrap in alm foil. Bake at 400 for an hour. then at 250 for 3 hrs. Take it out and seperate the mud from fish. Throw away ling and eat the mud.

I will have to remember this for next time! :;:cheers

 

[guywhofishes]

My grandma grew up in Newfoundland. According to her lobster was a poor mans food back then. They fed it to dogs and prisoners. Just thought that was interesting

yep - threw them in fields for fertilizer too

 

[MSA]

 

[Captain Ahab]

One day I want to fish with those Konrad twins. They are fishing machines. Makes me wish I had a twin...naw that would be bad if we hung out too much.

 

[guywhofishes]

 

[Kurtr]

They are ugly first fish i ever pulled through the ice when i first moved out here. Scarred the crap out of me when it wrapped around my arm