Ever catch any?

Like them?

I catch them incidentally while fishing for walleye and lake trout in the winter. I have filleted several and thought they were pretty good table fare fried up in beer batter, or boiled in 7up and dipped in salted butter…poor man's lobster.

We catch them all the time. They aren't bad in chowder.

We catch them. If conditions are right (weather) so permitting that I can clean them right away out on the ice, then sometimes I will clean one or 2.

I've done the whole boil and dip in butter thing, it's ok but I prefer to bread and deep fry.

also called eelpout

A friend told me his brother caught one once, and threw his rod out of the boat when he saw it!

They are not pretty.

I get them OUT of the ice house pretty quick if we are keeping, otherwise I don't even let them out of the fishing hole. I get my hook out and push them snaky bastards down the hole with the back of my gaff pole.

Then the fish hole is all nasty, filthy pig fish.

Love them. Look weird but taste great.

They taste as good as they look ugly.

They are the only freshwater cod... and one of only two freshwater fish really worth eating, IMO...

Haven't caught one, yet. I'm sure I'd like it.

I do like the saltwater ling cod, even if it isn't a cod.

What's your #2?

red horse?

Cold water lake trout.

Smoked they are not bad, just not even close to ordinary saltwater fish...

I see Waldo!

I see two species of the best two species of freshwater fish for eating...

You've either never eaten walleye, perch, or crappie bass, or else you have different taste buds than I do.

Gotta throw in with Art here.....growing up in MN, we smoked most lake trout as they just didn't compare with walleyes or pan fish.....but these lake trout up here are great eating.

I try to spend most of a month each summer just fishing lake trout......fried for dinner nightly.....in a comal pozo.