Brian Wegscheid drills a hole in the ice to set up a sign at his site for the 37th Annual Eelpout Festival on Friday on Leech Lake. The event began on Thursday and runs through Sunday with about ...

The eelpout (Lota lota), or burbot, is a variety of cod. It is a slimy, eel-like bottom-feeder that dwells in cold northern lakes and rivers.

When we first arrived at The Eelpout Festival in Walker, MN we didn't even know what an eelpout was, let alone that they were edible! But after only a few hours on the frozen lake, we were kissing ...

Burbot is also known as bubbot, cusk, freshwater cod, ling, lingcod and eelpout, and are the only freshwater cod species in North America. The fish is said to taste like lobster.

When it becomes official, the big eelpout -- also commonly known as burbot -- will be the fifth state record for the species since 1980, DNR records show. Five of those ‘pout, including Getzler ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -— The eelpout or burbot, that beady-eyed freshwater cod widely known as the "ish of fish" for its unsightly appearance, doesn't get a lot of attention, but ...

Burbot, like trout and salmon, are adapted to cold water, and thus most active in the winter. As such, most people catch them by ice fishing, Kratzer said.

On their final day in the wilderness, things go from bad to colder. With fish vanishing, temperatures dropping to -19°F, and ...