* The most effective method is vertically jigging with glowing jigs at night off rocky cliffs in 20 to 60 feet of water. Some people tip the jigs with sucker meat.

* Winter is probably the most productive time to fish for burbot at the Gorge. Ice anglers this past winter did very well, with 30-fish nights not uncommon.

* In the spring and fall, anglers should fish off cliffs walls. Jigging has to be done deeper in the summer months, when burbot head down to 60 or 70 feet to stay in cold water.

* There is no limit on burbot in either Utah or Wyoming. In Utah, it is illegal to release any burbot caught. Wyoming is working on a similar regulation.

* Utah is proposing a change that would allow anglers to fish with up to six poles when ice fishing at Flaming Gorge without a second pole permit in 2009. The idea is to increase the take of burbot.

* The use of live bait is illegal on both sides of the reservoir.

* A reciprocal stamp (Wyoming stamp for a Utah angler or a Utah stamp for a Wyoming angler) or state fishing license is required to fish either side of the reservoir.

Source: Robb Keith, fisheries biologist for Wyoming Game and Fish