exotic species

[Wyoming 2]

I talked to a Wyoming biologist recently who works on the Green below Fontanelle...he had some pretty interesting things to say. I guess some people have moved ling cod and bourbot from Boysen Reservoir to the Big Sandy Reservoir and they have now shown up in the Green. I don't want to create a big worry or anything, but don't be surprised if these exotic fish start turning up in the Gorge. There aren't lots of them, but a few are definitely out there.

[FrozenFish]

So does this mean with those exotic fish there will be more food for the lakers and other fish in Flameing Gorge? Read the below article.

Flaming Gorge fish feasting on kokanee
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,400009749,00.html

[Wyoming 2]

I don't know much about either of these strange fish, but I think they are more of the predator type than prey...if anything, I would think they would do more harm than help. But, who knows...lake trout are so priscivorous that they would probably eat any smaller fish.

[Larry S.]

Well, two things that stand out to me in your essay are;

1. Pt. Conception---- The name of that place has always made me wonder if that is where the local teenagers hang out at night(you know, like passion flats above the Capitol Bldg.)?

2. The last two words....."excellent taste"! ;^)

I'm with you on this one but then who am I to question a Wyoming biologist?

[cardiac]

fanatic.
In the Rocky Mt. Hunting and Fishing News that I get every couple weeks, I've read about ling in the rivers around Montana. I'm not sure but I think it's the Missouri. I've seen the pictures of them and they're uglier then you and me put together.
Since we don't have any around here, I don't pay much attention to those articles.

[cardiac]

Here's a link for your burbot
http://www.walleyesunlimited.com/adopt-fish/fish-burbot.html

they are calling burbot a ling also.
another site is
http://sports.yahoo.com/fishandgame/fishreports/reports/31/210.html

[MOKE]

Thanks for your post...you took the time to do what I was trying to figure out!

I grew up on the coast...but fished mostly in the western trout waters.
I remember as a kid that somewhere in Utah you could go catch Ling and Burbot.
Call me an impressionable kid, but I had just learned that salmon and steelhead migrated from the river to the ocean and then back.
Thats how you guys got Ling and Burbot. They came up the Colorado!
Theres steelhead in northern Utah that got there somehow...so why not Ling Cod?

Sounds like a local name variation to me.

MOKE

[MOKE]

Purely joking!
I understand the Freshwater Burbot to be one ugly SOB!
I catch Saltwater "Burbot" and baby Ling "cod" in the estuarial lagoons / harbors all the time The saltwater 'Burbs' are so ugly and scary looking that I can't touch 'em! I break out the towel to hold these spiny, toothy uglies!

I still have to wonder about the recent posting of how steelhead ended up in a Utah pond though. I thought they had to spend time in saltwater to earn that badge..... Local name variations...I guess.

MOKE

[Larry S.]

The Wyoming fishing proclamation lists Ling and Burbot as the same fish and lists it as "native" to Wyoming.

fshfanatic appears(read "IS") to be right.

[PowerBaitHeppy]

fshfanatic -- here are some links, just for you!

http://gf.state.wy.us/HTML/fish/native.htm -- Look in the "B" section to find out that Burbot are a NATIVE fish of Wyoming.


http://gf.state.wy.us/HTML/fish/fishrecs.htm -- Look in the "L" section to find out the Wyoming state record Ling fish.

Ling are a member of the Cod family. They are not a Ling Cod, like your salt water friends, but they are a cod fish.

Wyoming 2 is correct that they have been found in the Big Sandy. They will end up in the Gorge.

[Wes Johnson]

Word I get from the DWR folks is that Burbot had been found in the upper reaches of Flaming Gorge about 8 months ago.

Impact to the fishery is not know, yet.

[roundrocks jim]

Looking in A.J McClanes feild guide to fresh water fish of America . The name for Burbot or ling is gadidae Lota Lota and is a member of the cod family and is eel shaped. This is not the ling that gives small boys night mares.One point on the salt water ling is that its meat is green untill you cook it then its snowie white. Here in the book it says that the burbot compeates with the lake trout and eats large numbers of white fish and cisco and is preyed upon by northern pike

[FrozenFish]

Isn't their Northern Pike in the upper end of the reservouir?..And if they feed on the ling, then thier pop. shouldnt get to out of control should it?..