Let's see your fish

ghotie_thumper

These are a couple of Ling Cod, around 30 inchers, not huge but definitely head shakers. When bottom fishing you can really tell when you hit a Ling, they are beasts, especially if you catch them under 100' depths. One of the best eating fish ever, only surpassed by halibut in my book. The teeth are wicked, when you land them you want/need to use pliers to remove the hooks. You can watch their eyes as they follow your hand to the hook, if you get inside their mouth at all........Snap, you will be blood brothers with the fish. you can see the bigger fish has some nice scars from something that tried to eat him. Love them lings.

RUGERGUNZ

Nice looking fish, look alot like the codfish we get in our traps from time to time.




Cod is a great eating fish, but ours in shallower water have worms, still edible but not as appetizing.

mrbruce

Here's a couple of nice SmallMouths from Chautauqua Lake, and the neighbor kid that adopted my Tracker Bass boat......

FEENIX

22 pounder lake trout taken at Hunter Bay, Saskatchewan.

COLT

mr bruce, THOSE are some NICE size smallies! Three pounds or so?...[:p]

COLT

Feenix, I love to fish for lake trout, notice I did not say "catch"....[:D]

...No deep, cold lakes around here to support 'em. Caught a few, but NOTHING near that size. We were fishing Tahoe (I think) and like 60' feet of water, nice fish buddy...[:p]

COLT

ghotie, are the Ling Cod similar (related) to rock cod?

rock cod is a most excellent fish to eat...[:p]

...looking at these lake trout, cod is making me hungry, and is killing me! If the wind will slack off (20, gusts to 35, almost all this month [:(]) I.m "gone fishing" in 3-4 days...[^]

ghotie_thumper

From what I hear, a ling cod is not related to the Cod fish at all. Just one of those names that gets hung on something. They do live in the same spots as the Rock Cod's but appear to be the "beast of the deep" I have only been bottom fishing for the last 15 yrs or so and am not an expert on them but have my favorites. On the west coast we seem to call the red colored rock cod, red snapper. The truth is apparently that real red snapper don't even exist on the west coast, its a south west coastal fish. The Ling is the best fighter and eater of all the bottom fish in my opinion. The filets are nice and long and when cooked up they are light and flaky without a heavy fishy taste. Here there are quite a few different Rock Cods and I enjoy the flavor of all of them but really do prefer the Lings. Most of the Rock Cods are shaped like a flat football where the Lings are much longer and have a little thicker filets, all of them have spines everywhere.

mrbruce

quote:Originally posted by Bloviator
mr bruce, THOSE are some NICE size smallies! Three pounds or so?...[:p]

3.6# and 4.5# the big one is in my big pond in the woods now......