Burrowing burbot fish dug deep trenches in the silt, while sculpin fish created dimple-like holes as they nestled into the lake floor.
Even so, their numbers remained relatively small until the 1950s, when the sea lampreyalso an oceanic interloperwiped the Great Lakes clean of the trout and burbot that .
Gone is the plentiful supply of lake trout, burbot, walleyes and pike that once made the lakes a fisherman's paradise.
Burbot removed from Fontenelle Dam spillway State and federal fisheries biologists removed about 300 burbot from the base of the Fontenelle Dam spillway last month.
Sept. 15, 2013 - KGWN-TV Cheyenne