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Fri, August 12, 2022 at 5:02 PM
A Utah couple landed a sturgeon last week that handily broke
the Idaho state record by several inches, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game
said in a Friday news release.
Greg and Angie Poulsen, of Eagle Mountain, Utah, were fishing at C.J. Strike Reservoir on Aug. 5 when they hooked a white sturgeon. The reservoir, about an hour’s drive south of Boise, extends to the Snake and Bruneau rivers. The massive prehistoric sturgeon are known to inhabit the Snake River, though Fish and Game said the largest specimens are typically found in Hells Canyon.
The Poulsens’ sturgeon measured in at 124 inches — or just under 10 feet, 4 inches. The previous record, set in 2019, was 119.5 inches, just a few inches shy of the 10-foot mark.
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Wow, what a monster, "Hey Kent, you jealous much?" In the back ground it looks like a guide might have put them on that fish.
(08-13-2022, 01:07 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: [ -> ]Wow, what a monster, "Hey Kent, you jealous much?" In the back ground it looks like a guide might have put them on that fish.
The article also makes reference to a new channel cat record from CJ Strike. But on that link you have to subscribe to the newspaper to get the info. Here is a reprint of a notice in Outdoor Life
Angler Paul Newman of Fruitland, Idaho, was looking to catch sturgeon when he set out on C.J. Strike Reservoir last Wednesday. Instead he caught a new catch-and-release state-record channel catfish.
According to Martin Koenig, Idaho’s Natural Resource Program Coordinator, Newman’s heavyweight channel cat measured 42.5 inches long. That’s plenty long enough to better the former catch-and-release record channel catfish of 33 inches, set by Reed Monson at Lake Lowell in 2020.
Before releasing the channel cat, Newman weighed the fish on a hand-held digital scale, which registered 37 pounds. That means Newman’s fish would have most likely beaten Idaho’s current certified weight record for channel catfish—a 32.9-pound, 36.5-inch fish that was caught by angler Cody Kastner on June 16. As Koenig pointed out, that record fish also came out of C.J. Strike Reservoir.
However, to earn the overall state record title, Newman would have had to weigh his catfish on certified scales, which would have meant killing it. It’s possible that he could have kept the fish alive to reach a location with certified scales, and then released it, but this is always a risky proposition.
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(08-13-2022, 03:01 PM)TubeDude Wrote: [ -> ] (08-13-2022, 01:07 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: [ -> ]Wow, what a monster, "Hey Kent, you jealous much?" In the back ground it looks like a guide might have put them on that fish.
The article also makes reference to a new channel cat record from CJ Strike. But on that link you have to subscribe to the newspaper to get the info. Here is a reprint of a notice in Outdoor Life
Angler Paul Newman of Fruitland, Idaho, was looking to catch sturgeon when he set out on C.J. Strike Reservoir last Wednesday. Instead he caught a new catch-and-release state-record channel catfish.
According to Martin Koenig, Idaho’s Natural Resource Program Coordinator, Newman’s heavyweight channel cat measured 42.5 inches long. That’s plenty long enough to better the former catch-and-release record channel catfish of 33 inches, set by Reed Monson at Lake Lowell in 2020.
Before releasing the channel cat, Newman weighed the fish on a hand-held digital scale, which registered 37 pounds. That means Newman’s fish would have most likely beaten Idaho’s current certified weight record for channel catfish—a 32.9-pound, 36.5-inch fish that was caught by angler Cody Kastner on June 16. As Koenig pointed out, that record fish also came out of C.J. Strike Reservoir.
However, to earn the overall state record title, Newman would have had to weigh his catfish on certified scales, which would have meant killing it. It’s possible that he could have kept the fish alive to reach a location with certified scales, and then released it, but this is always a risky proposition.
Wow, that is a monster cat, with a size that big I wonder if the guy thought he had a small sturgeon on before he got it in.
(08-13-2022, 01:07 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: [ -> ]Wow, what a monster, "Hey Kent, you jealous much?" In the back ground it looks like a guide might have put them on that fish.
Not really. I'm more concerned about the pressure that the charters are putting on the sturgeon fishery. Recently, 5 sturgeon were found floating. Catching them when the water is so warm puts a lot of stress on these ancient fish. I wish they would shut the fishery down when the water gets so warm. I also wish the charters would voluntarily quit fishing under the current conditions.
(08-13-2022, 03:01 PM)TubeDude Wrote: [ -> ] (08-13-2022, 01:07 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: [ -> ]Wow, what a monster, "Hey Kent, you jealous much?" In the back ground it looks like a guide might have put them on that fish.
The article also makes reference to a new channel cat record from CJ Strike. But on that link you have to subscribe to the newspaper to get the info. Here is a reprint of a notice in Outdoor Life
Angler Paul Newman of Fruitland, Idaho, was looking to catch sturgeon when he set out on C.J. Strike Reservoir last Wednesday. Instead he caught a new catch-and-release state-record channel catfish.
According to Martin Koenig, Idaho’s Natural Resource Program Coordinator, Newman’s heavyweight channel cat measured 42.5 inches long. That’s plenty long enough to better the former catch-and-release record channel catfish of 33 inches, set by Reed Monson at Lake Lowell in 2020.
Before releasing the channel cat, Newman weighed the fish on a hand-held digital scale, which registered 37 pounds. That means Newman’s fish would have most likely beaten Idaho’s current certified weight record for channel catfish—a 32.9-pound, 36.5-inch fish that was caught by angler Cody Kastner on June 16. As Koenig pointed out, that record fish also came out of C.J. Strike Reservoir.
However, to earn the overall state record title, Newman would have had to weigh his catfish on certified scales, which would have meant killing it. It’s possible that he could have kept the fish alive to reach a location with certified scales, and then released it, but this is always a risky proposition.
That Record Channel turned out to be a Blue
https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/idah...tfish/?amp
So that makes it 37 years old
That seems unlikely because blues do not live that long but it was stated that, "blue catfish from farms in the southeastern U.S possible got mixed in with a batch of channel cats headed for Idaho.", guess that must be what happened.
In the original news release about the sturgeon: "The previous record, set in 2019, was 119.5 inches, just a few inches shy of the 10-foot mark."
What the heck? On my tape measure, 120" is 10 feet. If it was 119.5", then it was 1/2" shy of 10 feet, not "just a few inches". LOL
I have seen that boat before. one day they were around me for about 6 hours and I did not see them catch one sturgeon. I think he charges about
$825. for 3 people.
(08-13-2022, 10:45 PM)Fritzfishin Wrote: [ -> ]
They live in city center. Its my buddies daughters boyfriends mom and dad that caught it what a lunker!!
Congrats to them, that is a great fish, must have weighed over 1,000 lbs
(08-13-2022, 06:14 PM)TubeDude Wrote: [ -> ] In a multi-species water you can target all you want, but it ain't no guarantee that is all you're gonna get. But, one of my favorite fishing expressions is "Some problems are better than others."
That is the kind of problem we all should be so lucky to have, fishing for cats and catch a record sturgeon or fishing for sturgeon and catch a record cat, better yet, how lucky you would have to be to catch two record fish like that in one day. If anyone is ever that lucky, they better stop by and buy a lotto ticket the same day.