Know why people love to catch the burbot fish. They are demersal fish found in deep temperate lake bottoms and slow-moving cold river bottoms between 4 and 18 degrees C. Check out the presentation to know more about it or visit https://bit.ly/2ZGYPLd

1. Bring
Burbot
Back
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2. Burbot, Lota lota, aka Eel Pout, Lawyer Fish, Lingcod are a holarctic species native to the cold fresh
waters of the Nearctic and Palearctic regions found between 40 and 70 degrees North latitudes.
Burbot are demersal fish found in deep temperate lake bottoms and slow moving cold river bottoms
between 4 and 18 degrees C. You can enjoy fishing near me with the Primarily found at depths
ranging from 1 to 700 m, these fish prefer fresh waters but are also found in some brackish water
systems.

3. Burbot are large fish known to grow to as much
as 1.5 m in length and 34 kg in weight. These
fish are yellow, light tan, or brown with dark
brown or black patterning on the body, head
and most fins. The underbelly and pectoral fins
are pale to white. The first dorsal fin is short
and is followed by a long second dorsal fin at
least 6 times the length of the first and joined to
a rounded caudal fin.
he burbot is the only member of the cod family
that lives in fresh water. For several months a
year burbot can be trapped under ice – they
need cold temperatures to spawn but all that
slime and flabbiness provide excellent
protection. The are a very voracious predator.

4. All About
Burbot
Burbot are large fish known to grow to as much
as 1.5 m in length and 34 kg in weight. These
fish are yellow, light tan, or brown with dark
brown or black patterning on the body, head
and most fins. The underbelly and pectoral fins
are pale to white. The first dorsal fin is short
and is followed by a long second dorsal fin at
least 6 times the length of the first and joined to
a rounded caudal fin.
Maybe there will some Anglers who still
remember catching them ? The cause of the
burbot’s disappearance remained “a bit of a
mystery” but was a combination of pressures
including the disappearance of natural “messy”
edges to rivers, including pools, flooded areas
and back channels.

5. OLD WEST RIVER,
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
A few questions from an angling point of
view I ask myself with the 50 year gap
since its last UK sighting is the burbot
suitable for reintroduction, especially since
in that time the non native zander has
established throughout our waterways as
an alternate predator, did the burbot’s
demise enable the zander spread ? Should
Natural England start to reintroduce would
lakes / fisheries stock them ? they could
under strict rules by the EA like Wels
catfish, I would love to catch them
personally as they are a lure and bait caught
species that love a cold weather like this
arctic February day especially.

6. I spent many a happy hour as a youngster
fishing the old west and the drains around it in
the late 70’s through early 80’s remembering
its unspoilt wild stretches it does not surprise
me this was this the venue of the last sighting.
The fish has been successfully reintroduced
into Belgium and Germany, and there were
several river valleys in the East Anglian Fens
with good floodplains that could be ideal
habitat. Unlike beavers, lynx and sea eagles,
they haven’t been gone for long; only about 50
years.

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