Looks like a sturgeon to me.
Someone was talking about living back then to see if the old timers were just telling fishing stories or the fishing was as good as they all say over a glass of beer.
Looking forward to our grandchildren, I hope they’ll be able to say “we have the best fishing right here and right now”.
All I can say is that I have 100x better fishing now then I had in the 60’s. With or without a boat. It’s a great time to be alive as a fisherman although I would love to come back 100 years from know to see what’s happened.
Cell phones will likely have a built in bait caster.