Burbot – Best Bait & Lures

Looking for the best bait for Burbot in Call of the Wild: The Angler? Below you find every bait and lure that Burbot bites on, grouped by rig, plus the right hook size, habitats and traits for each reserve where it lives: Golden Ridge Reserve, Trollsporet Nature Reserve.

Burbot in Golden Ridge Reserve

Hook size: B#7, B#6, S#5, G#4, D#3, D#2

Habitats: Shallow Lake, Deep Lake, Upriver, Middle River, River Mouth

Traits: Night Owl

Baits and lures that catch Burbot in Golden Ridge Reserve

Soft plastics on a jighead

• Shad (retrieve: Constant, Stop and Go, Twitching, Jigging)
• Tube (retrieve: Jigging, Twitching)
• Worm (retrieve: Jigging)
• Grub (retrieve: Jigging, Constant, Twitching)

Natural bait (float or feeder)

• Liver (hook 5-4/0)
• Redworm (hook 6-2)
• Hotdog (hook 10-1; throwable)
• Leeches (hook 7-2/0)
• Minnow (hook 10-4/0)
• Bloodworm (hook 10-7)
• Cheese (hook 8-4/0)
• Eggs (hook 10-6)
• Dough (hook 6-1)
• Marshmallow (hook 10-8)

Groundbait / other

• Match Blend (throwable)

▶ Want to avoid other species? Open the interactive bait selector for Burbot in Golden Ridge Reserve

Other fish in Golden Ridge Reserve: Black Crappie, Bluegill, Brook Trout, Channel Catfish, Cutthroat Trout, Freshwater Drum, Golden Trout, Green Sunfish, Kokanee Salmon, Lake Trout, Largemouth Bass, Mountain Whitefish, Northern Pike, Ohrid Trout, Rainbow Trout, River Carpsucker, Rock Bass, Sauger, Shovelnose Sturgeon, Signal Crayfish, Smallmouth Bass, Tiger Muskie, Walleye, White Crappie, Yellow Perch

Burbot in Trollsporet Nature Reserve

Hook size: B#8, B#7, B#6, S#5, G#4, D#3

Habitats: Shallow Lake, Deep Lake, Upriver, Middle River, River Mouth

Traits: Night Owl

Baits and lures that catch Burbot in Trollsporet Nature Reserve

Soft plastics on a jighead

• Shad (retrieve: Constant, Stop and Go, Twitching, Jigging)
• Tube (retrieve: Jigging, Twitching)
• Worm (retrieve: Jigging)
• Grub (retrieve: Jigging, Constant, Twitching)

Natural bait (float or feeder)

• Liver (hook 5-4/0)
• Redworm (hook 6-2)
• Hotdog (hook 10-1; throwable)
• Leeches (hook 7-2/0)
• Minnow (hook 10-4/0)
• Bloodworm (hook 10-7)
• Cheese (hook 8-4/0)
• Eggs (hook 10-6)
• Dough (hook 6-1)
• Marshmallow (hook 10-8)

Groundbait / other

• Match Blend (throwable)

▶ Want to avoid other species? Open the interactive bait selector for Burbot in Trollsporet Nature Reserve

Other fish in Trollsporet Nature Reserve: Alpine Bullhead, Arctic Char, Asp, Atlantic Salmon, Bream, Brown Trout, Bullhead Catfish, Chub, Common Dace, European Bullhead, European Perch, Grayling, Ide, Northern Pike, Roach, Ruffe, Zander