Making jigs for what kind of fish?

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Originally Posted by Uncle Grump

...There is the eel pout contest (ice fishing) in Walker Mn each year - lots of people attend....

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I think I might have seen that on TV before, may have even called them burbot, but that doesn't ring a bell. :p Eel pout either! LOL Now a freshwater Cod... I've heard that name before. Are they same as a whitefish? I've only seen one of those before caught fishing for yellow perch. Did a little research a while ago and found out they were one of the most caught commercial fish in Erie at 1 time, but they pretty much killed the whole population off and now they are few and far between. But I only fish a small area of the Western Basin of Erie, so can't speak for the other 99.5% of the lake. :D

Whitefish are different from Burbot. There is suppose to be some decent Burbot fishing a couple hours away but I haven't made it up there yet.

As for Whitefish thank you for reminding me Whitefish season opens on the Yakima River on the first and I need to tie some flies, I have never purposely fished for them before but have caught a few in a lake I have fished a couple times.

Home page for the Walker MN Eel Pout contest.....

Annual International Eelpout Festival

This page - same site, describes ice fishing for 'pout....

27th Annual International Eelpout Festival

Personally - I have never have caught one, but am told be those who have that they are very slimey - so far as handling them. They are supposed to be excellant on the table. Would like to hook in to one.

I know that 'pout swim in central & northern MN waters...ie Mille Lacs and further N, not aware of them being in the southern part of the state - where I am at....

UG

Indiana has whitefish in Southern Lake Michigan (see report). Whitefish are salmonids, closely related to cisco. Northeastern Indiana has cisco populations in some of its natural inland lakes.

I do believe that one of my Indy area pay lakes stocks burbot occasionally during late winter. I personally know of a pay lake fisherman who loves to catch them.

Thanks UncleGrump,I'm going to get one of them cold weather long tee shirts for winter fishing here in Arizona,that should bring on some questions from the guys.

I fish mostly for largemouth and smallmouth bass in my tournaments. Then I will fish for them in my free time. Twice a year I will go to the WI River and fish for walleye and sauger. Finally I go in fall to fish a couple of days for muskie. That's it.

Crappie, large & smallmouth, bream, white bass, stripers/hydrid, lots in saltwater... but trout and flounder mainly.

We try for crappie in small mouth bass and trout but crappie is number one.

Most of my jigs are tied for panfish and trout.I used to tie and use jigs for walleyes and and occasional muskie but haven't in quite some time.

crappie mostly but do quite a few walleye jigs also and just started doing float n fly jigs for LM and big bucktails for muskie