Went fishing for lakers this weekend up on Lake Ontario and caught a Ling Cod. He weighed 8 1/2 lbs, but faught like he weighed 25! What an ugly fish! I didn't know what it was. I took a couple of pics and let him go. I'll post some pics when the are developed. I caught him on down riggers in about 140 ft of water.
Has anyone here ever cought one of these? Was this a good sized one? I really don't know a thing about them. Can't find much info. on the freshwater ones... only the saltwater ones.

We also got 5 lakers, but only 1 wasn't a slot fish. 12 lb 31". Nice fish.