Burbot in Lake Erie?

[jonk]

Never caught one myself. Local bar when I lived in Fairport Harbor had a guy bring one in he had just caught and asked if the owner (who was a retired chef) knew what it was. He did. He cleaned and cooked it up, cutting and frying one filet and poaching the other with lemon juice parsley salt and pepper, a little garlic, a little onion. Both were very good, as the angler didn't want to eat it all himself.

I did hook into a sturgeon once off of mouse island. Tied into something big while fishing for... well, whatever that would hit a spreader, with a minnow on one side and a worm on the other. Old open face reel and steel pole. Fought it for about half an hour, did get it up to where I could see it... not a huge one, about 25-30 inches. On walleye tackle I could have probably gotten it in, but on 6 lb test with no drag I had really taken my time. I was about to pull it in to net and unhook it when it spit the perch hook.

[Jawbreaker]

We used to occasionally catch what we called Eelpout in Big Winnibigoshish Lk. in Minnesota while pike fishing. Weird looking fish. They do resemble a dogfish. A little more eel like.