My son and I chased some cats on the St Croix on Thursday night. We picked up one small (21″) channel about 7:30pm and then had 3 dropped clicker runs until 11:15pm. I hooked into what I thought was the Mother of all flatheads. Took me about 15 minutes to finally wrestle the critter into the boat. 49″ sturgeon – what a fun fish to catch but I must admit my disappointment when I finally saw it next to the boat. I was sure I had a state record flathead. That thing was all over the place and impossible to control, it was under the boat, tangled in the motor, and just a drag screaming monster. Sure did help make the night a lot of fun. It was a beautiful night, river came up slightly following the rain with a nice current, water temp was 67 degrees.
September 18, 2004 at 7:41 pm
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