Joeytier Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Like everyone else on this side of the continent, there was an astounding lack of snow, ice and general cold around here all december, with the vast majority of the month being above zero. Put the boat away in late November anticipating normal weather, which couldve waited a few more weeks. Despite that, we had some great trips burbot fishing at a local shore fishing hotspot on the Ottawa river. The generally mild nights made it easy to spend the night outside next to a fire hauling in chunky ling. The action wasn't as hot as ice-out last April/May, but the catching was consistent, and really picked up the week or so before christmas. For all the stink and slime they produce, they really are fantastic table fare, making it all worth it! Even had a little BoxLing day celebration and saved up a bunch of our meat for an epic fry to cap off the holidays! Fun as that was, the cold and the snow was a welcome sight over the last few days, and we finally have fishable ice on small lakes. No bites today, but it felt good to walk on water again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Im in for the ling feed Hell, you should share the heart shape tater bud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr blizzard Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Yes they r ugly but sure do taste great, glad to see u got some snow, all the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAW Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Nice long Joey! Hopefully I'll be posting an ice fishing report in the next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeytier Posted December 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Nice long Joey! Hopefully I'll be posting an ice fishing report in the next week Ice is bad everywhere. Couldn't find good ice today. Even most small lakes have basically no ice around here, worse than I thought. That huge dump of snow really screwed everything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Ironmaker Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Ling taste good, I like Ling. Ugly little critters but who cares. A guy in North Bay that ran a restaurant 35 years back told me if you order scallops there you are getting Ling loin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr blizzard Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 (edited) Ironmaker your right ,when they are cubed they look and taste very similar to scallops Joeytier, next batch u catch, cube some and wrap with a strip of BACON mmmmm good Edited December 31, 2015 by mr blizzard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeytier Posted December 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Ironmaker your right , they cubed they look and taste very similar to scallops Joeytier, next batch u catch, cube some and wrap with a strip of BACON mmmmm good Don't have to tell me twice! I'm on it haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosebunk Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Cool area you live in and beauty that far up the Ottawa. Solid linging before Christmas singing dood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 How's the sand-rolled ling? That'll dull the knife real quick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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