07-02-2018, 09:53 PM
Barry, Randy and I spent 3 days shore fishing for sturgeon last week. Launched the boat for about 10 minutes and in the process of getting the boat ready to launch, losing a baseball cap over the side of the boat and trailering the boat me managed to break three parts on the boat.[mad] I should have accepted the fact that it was too windy and just left the boat on the trailer.
Because of the wind, the trip became a fishing-from-shore trip. We met a nice gentlemen at the Mexican restaurant, that Craig and I enjoy eating at, and he kindly offered to share a couple of his favorite sturgeon shore-fishing- locations. We took him up on his kind offer and I added two more locations to my growing list of places to fish from shore.
We managed to land 13 sturgeon, have three break off, and two others came unbuttoned. Of the ones landed they ranged in size from 31" to 83".
Barry hooked a monster sturgeon and the fight was on in a major way. Barry would gain a few feet and then the sturgeon would burn the drag for several feet. Barry fought that sturgeon from one end of the large pool, we were fishing, to the other end three times for at least an hour. During all of that time it was a literal stalemate. Finally, the sturgeon was able to get to the swift water, where the large pool empties back into the main river, and break off. We were all sick that we were unable to land that sturgeon and see how large it actually was. It surfaced a couple times and the head was enormous and so we can only guess at how large it actually was. All we were left with are some exciting memories and the attached picture of a bent rod and some video that Randy shot. Another fun trip with a couple of enjoyable fishing buddies.
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Because of the wind, the trip became a fishing-from-shore trip. We met a nice gentlemen at the Mexican restaurant, that Craig and I enjoy eating at, and he kindly offered to share a couple of his favorite sturgeon shore-fishing- locations. We took him up on his kind offer and I added two more locations to my growing list of places to fish from shore.
We managed to land 13 sturgeon, have three break off, and two others came unbuttoned. Of the ones landed they ranged in size from 31" to 83".
Barry hooked a monster sturgeon and the fight was on in a major way. Barry would gain a few feet and then the sturgeon would burn the drag for several feet. Barry fought that sturgeon from one end of the large pool, we were fishing, to the other end three times for at least an hour. During all of that time it was a literal stalemate. Finally, the sturgeon was able to get to the swift water, where the large pool empties back into the main river, and break off. We were all sick that we were unable to land that sturgeon and see how large it actually was. It surfaced a couple times and the head was enormous and so we can only guess at how large it actually was. All we were left with are some exciting memories and the attached picture of a bent rod and some video that Randy shot. Another fun trip with a couple of enjoyable fishing buddies.
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