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Originally Posted by rottik9
thanks guys...would the lakes around my area (cold lake)..hold good numbers of whitefish?
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Tons of them. Especially the lakes close to Cold Lake.
But, I have found them to be very wormy. If you can look past that... I could not. Even though I'm told they are harmless when cooked. I just couldn't do it.
I've sampled whites from most of the lakes up there along hwy 55 and 100% have worms. You can tell either visually when you see them wriggling around but most if you hold up the fillets against a light you will see a round to oval nodule in their flesh. If you open them up they are kind of puss like and stringy and the stringy parts are the worms...
You can cut them out of the fillets of course. A bit more work and makes a bit of a mess.
Sorry to be so graphic but I thought you might as well know when you might find. Now I've never caught one out of Cold Lake. Maybe they are clean there. Good luck.