Lithuania, 2004.12.20

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okuma · #1 Post by **okuma** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:15 am

People:just me

Duration:over night

Tide: god knows...was about 60 km from the sea..(Baltic sea)

Weather: somewhere between -18 and -23 C

Bait: smelt,garden worms,pork liver

Rigs: something like running legger...(Ive no idea pulley exist then...)

Results:well...the straight forward translation from Lithuanian to English is- LING...

Report:yes Ling..wasn't sure where to put this "report" decided to do it here as it is catch and believe it or not its to do with a sea...you can catch this fish in a period of 1-1.5 month it happens then this fish moves from the sea into the river and travels as far as 200-250 km into country to spawn...they coming and coming for about 2 weeks-then in the worst weather you can imagine(rain+snow,wind+snow+rain) -you have the best chance to get them,best time would be an hour before and after dark,same in the morning.Then night is clear and cold,no wind-you less chance to get them but still possible After they lay eggs they stay on them (protection),during that time they do not feed and become aggressive towards intruders,so people start spinning-jigging for them..or if its ice on the river most do ice fishing..(they not protected spices even during the spawn-reason would be amount of them coming from the sea-huge,in normal) After about a month since they lay eggs they move back to the sea...hunting starts again. You can get them up to 13 lb which would be good catch if you get bait and weather Right,amazing how quickly they changing feeding habits-few days on worms..next day could be head of smelt only and nothing else..next night-strip of herring,only older fishermans figure out whats the best to use,so everybody follows them or just got lucky. Another interested thing about them..nobody catches them in the sea all year round incl. commercial boats and there is one or two lakes where at the depth 18-20 meters they exist,only much smaller and again you can get them during Christmas and just after New Year Also they have no teeth,they have like a catfish..like sand paper and the skin-like frogs. Reason i post this here (in Ireland) because it reminds me Rockling and I'm sure that just "Ling" as the name for this fish-wouldn't be accurate,hope you enjoyed.. and maybe somebody knows or saw this fish..

#2 Post by **stevecrow74** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:38 am

looks like a torsk of some kind, nice catch all the same

and what are you doing having a bath with a fish :shock: :shock: :shock:

and did it really take 4 yrs to post this??

#3 Post by **Ronald** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:08 am

is it a burbot ? never seen one ,just drawings from id books .

okuma · #4 Post by **okuma** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:12 am

it is "lota lota" or "burbot" its cod family fish,wilkipedia says its comercial fish but i never saw one to buy or heard of it......... and i wasnt posting just becouse it didnt came up to me :o)

#5 Post by **lumpy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:42 pm

there burbot alright. think there the only freshwater species of the cod family,apparently they used to be relatively common in britain pre industrial times. there still caught in norway i think..

#6 Post by **eric** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:42 pm

is it swimming in a bath tub :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :shock: :shock:

#7 Post by **stevecrow74** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:26 pm

Ronald wrote:is it a burbot ? never seen one ,just drawings from id books .

actually yeah.. i should have known that one.. :oops:

okuma · #8 Post by **okuma** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:01 pm

eric wrote:is it swimming in a bath tub :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :shock: :shock:

............NO.....the river goes through my bathroom..... 8) 8) 8) is there any brown trout in your jax??? :oops:

#9 Post by **eric** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:17 pm

okuma wrote: is there any brown trout in your jax??? :oops:

now thats just dirty :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

#10 Post by **pete** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:04 pm

Wow! Looks like a super charged rockling :lol: Interesting bit of background on the lifecycle there Okuma :)

#11 Post by **JOHN1** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:14 pm

The burbot is the only fish known to have become extinct in Great Britain in recent centuries. It was restricted to rivers in eastern England from County Durham to the Great Ouse. There has been no authenticated record of the species in the UK for over 50 years.
The burbot has a northern circumpolar distribution, occurring in clean lakes and rivers throughout much of northern Europe, Asia and North America. In Europe it is known from 19 countries, but is considered substantially threatened in several of these.
The burbot is given special protection under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It is neither listed on Annex II of the EC Habitats Directive nor Annex III of the Bern Convention.

well done okuma :wink:
great pictures next time your going over give me a ring i would like on my species list.
i don't know if i could handle the heat over there

okuma · #12 Post by **okuma** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:40 pm

JOHN1 wrote:i don't know if i could handle the heat over there

sometimes its so "hot" the bait freezes to your fingers and after retrieve you get tip ring "full" of ice,so before you cast you have to put into the water for couple of seconds,o..and forget the braid too its becomes like wire stiff and you can just broke it :) :)

#13 Post by **JOHN1** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:20 pm

im just thinking it might be a good idea not to ring when your going :lol: :lol:

yes i remember you were telling me about the big snow boots you have to ware while out ice fishing i believe you now :shock: :lol: :lol:

when you do go just bring back some pics of the species you get that will do me.

#14 Post by **Bradan** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:24 pm

JOHN1 wrote:The burbot is the only fish known to have become extinct in Great Britain in recent centuries.

What about the sturgeon? It was definitely native to Britain and Ireland up to a century or two ago...

#15 Post by **JOHN1** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:30 pm

it says known to have become extinct in recent centuries. :wink:

i think it means in the prescent one ie around 50 years or so since it was last recorded.

so there might be still a slim chance of getting a sturgeon or a lota lota something.

#16 Post by **corbyeire** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:51 pm

i thought the sturgeon were gone from dublin since the mid 1800s? - im looking at a stuffed one right now - bout 2meters - just imagine if they were still to be had!

akuma · #17 Post by **akuma** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:59 pm

Nice fish. Looks like a brute for sure.

They have them here in the States as well.

Conor P · #18 Post by **Conor P** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:52 pm

Why the hell did you have the egg beater in your bath tub??? :lol: :lol:

okuma · #19 Post by **okuma** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:26 pm

thats a shower hose :D :D :D

#20 Post by Al » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:24 am

:lol:

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