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trapper9260

trapper9260

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Yes it is a Sturgeon, a Lake Sturgeon , I caught it on the Mississippi River when I was fishing with another guy in his boat . I caught another one last year that was the same size . In the same area I caught the first one. You can not keep them from the Miss. River since they are protected .If it was a Shovelnose Sturgeon I could of kept it . I normal fish the Miss. River backwaters in my canoe .
 
Rick H

Rick H

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Here, where you can keep them, they have to be 55". Most places you have to throw them all back. They spear them through the ice in the winter, but have a total take of 5 per season per lake on some of our larger inland lakes. Some 7' long.
 
trapper9260

trapper9260

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I never in my life taught that I would ever get one. Now I have caught 2 in my life. I am happy now no matter I could not keep any. Rick ,I have hear they get big. I guess it depends on where you are .
 
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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We see them here in our rivers and Tributaries as well. I few years back we had a man come in the store. (I was working gun counter. We where huge four floor outfit with fishing first floor guns hunting second and third and fourth classrooms and shooting ranges) Saying some one caught a sturgeon in the Quinnipiac River. This is verboten here. If you see ine your supposed to leave do not bother it. This yahoo caught it, took him hours to land it and he had it on a wire it was about 4' long. Wardens /Police came and took the man away. They released the fish but it died and the Warden came back and took that too.

We walked down to the bridge and some of us saw the fish while others the release.

Not super common but they are here too. Shame.. I guess they are super slow growers and can be hundreds of years old for the super biguns.

CW
 
trapper9260

trapper9260

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I was told they are not well know for being caught around the part of the Miss , River I go into. It is the Shovelnose ones I was told are caught normal .
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Just me and my oldest girl at some formal thing or other .
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Oh I remember now , it was when I handed over the payment book to that Marine . :)
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My selfie skills are lacking , the fivehead (vs forehead) doesn't help . I hate my hair line but having suffered 8 with 2 to go teenagers what's a guy to do .
 
JonB

JonB

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trapper9260 said:
Yes it is a Sturgeon, a Lake Sturgeon , I caught it on the Mississippi River when I was fishing with another guy in his boat . I caught another one last year that was the same size . In the same area I caught the first one. You can not keep them from the Miss. River since they are protected .If it was a Shovelnose Sturgeon I could of kept it . I normal fish the Miss. River backwaters in my canoe .
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In the Late 1980s, I was fishin' with a Preacher, on the shore of the Minnesota River (about 40 miles from where is confluences with the Mississippi). He caught a Sturgeon...maybe 15 lbs? I'd never seen one before, and never seen one FTF since.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Many years ago, I seen a photograph of a 16' Sturgeon, caught in some river in Idaho. We use to fish for them on the river in Algonac, Michigan at friend' relatives cottage. They had a long dock, many old pilings surrounding it. We would hook them and get in a 16' aluminum boat and hang on, while they pulled us down the river. IIRC, the season limit was two and they had to be a rather long minimum length, like Rick H. posted.
 
fiver

fiver

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I hooked into one on the snake river this spring.
I got it in sort of close enough to see, then it just nonchalantly swam away breaking my 12lb. leader.
I had kind of thought I was overdoing things with the 12 lb. leader up to that point.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Spending years as a Charter fishing business and guide in Prince William Sound, I always thought about what the you look like from below if your in for a dip. Always reminds me of a fish tank when you sprinkle the food on top of the water. Except your the food. Sometimes a client would be reeling up a smaller halibut say twenty pounds or so and all of a sudden bang line would strip, then nothing. Come up the rest of the way with a halibut head. Salmon Sharks, but once, we were bring in some 15 to 30 pound fish, myself or my deckhand would help land, gaff or harpoon what ever was dictated by size. On the port rail a customer was fighting a nicer fish maybe 40 pounds and had the fish to the surface. Well we give instructions to clients to keep the fish in the water. You can lose a fish getting the head out, half the time they go nuts. Well this customer did as instructed and I came to help land his fish. As I'm bending over the rail accessing the fish, bow wake of water with a large grayish shape in it engulfed the halibut and was gone. Bang, 40 pound halibut gone instantly. Scared the crap out of me. A Great White was in the Montague Straights!!! That shark circled my vessel for a while, we had to bring all the lines in and quit fishing. Watching him was quite entertainment enough for me.
 
P

popper

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IIRC many years ago a guy caught one (several hundred pounds) in San Diego, had to get a relative with a power boat to come help him so he didn't get drifted out to sea.
Was going to go fly fishing at the local pond today but woke up too late, gonna be hot today.
Biggest I ever got was a large striper behind the dam at texhoma on a fly rod while flood gate was open. Thought I caught debris until it started moving upstream. Fortunately I was using 20# saltwater tippit. Then there was that large drum I got on the Ok. side. 20" trout on a #3 rod is fun too.
 
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