Freshwater Giant!

  • Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
    Posts: 1282
    #1223078

    Seems that my times that produced the most last year still hold true this year. This monster hit around 12:15 am and was a 20-25 minute fight while launching out of the water twice in front of the boat and wrapping 2x anchor ropes.

    We caught roughly 15 fish in a 1.5 hour time frame from midnight to 1:30 am, multiple doubles, multiple fish over 40 and a few over 50.

    happycampin
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 667
    #1195193

    My word…now that is a trip to remember!!!

    Ryan

    jeremy-liebig
    mpls
    Posts: 1455
    #1195195

    Holy crap! That’s a thick fish. What were the measurements? Congrats.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #1195197

    As a friend of mine would say….

    WORD!

    cat-stevens
    Rochester,MN
    Posts: 449
    #1195214

    Nice one JAKOB! You oughta be re-named the ST.Croix Sturgeonmaster

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
    Posts: 1282
    #1195217

    Good to see ya Tim! Haven’t talk to you in awhile!

    FishBlood&RiverMud
    Prescott
    Posts: 6687
    #1195218

    Nice sturg. Did you pull the lamprey off for the photo moment?
    55″?

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
    Posts: 1282
    #1195219

    Quote:


    Nice sturg. Did you pull the lamprey off for the photo moment?
    55″?


    The dang thing had 3 lamprey’s on it – once we lifted the net out of the water they all detached. You were close – this one ran 57×22, that girth is rare for the croix

    cat-stevens
    Rochester,MN
    Posts: 449
    #1195220

    Maybe we will cross paths early October. A group of us are coming up the 4th-6th and will be camping by day and fishing by night.

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    #1195222

    She is soooo pretty!

    FishBlood&RiverMud
    Prescott
    Posts: 6687
    #1195225

    I hear ya on the girth. My biggie last year was 61×21.
    You gotta catch those lamprey before they get off so you can cut off their heads or see who will stick it to their head for $5

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
    Posts: 1282
    #1195228

    Yeah I got a 62×24 last year, gah they are fun fish!

    62×24 Croix

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    #1195253

    Nice fish. That beats my PB on the Croix.

    Do you not have any teeth?

    skunkboy
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 172
    #1195293

    Nice fish. I’d like to head up there sometime. It’s a bit of a drive for me though. I guess I’ll stick to the Wisconsin for the time being.

    That is a fat looking Sturgeon. Seems when they get long, they lose girth. I got a 50″ last year and I bet it wasn’t 16″ in girth. Looked like a stick. Fought good though.

    Thanks for the pic, gets the blood boiling.

    L8R…Ken

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    #1195301

    Very nice fish.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    #1195311

    Quote:


    Do you not have any teeth?



    That’s his, “You’re damn right I caught this” face.

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
    Posts: 1282
    #1195375

    I lost all my teeth in an accident years ago – but thanks.

    Jerry Hochhausen
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Posts: 275
    #1195781

    That’s a beauty Jakob. I love when they jump. It makes the fight more exciting.

    boone
    Woodbury, MN
    Posts: 935
    #1195861

    How are you guys anchoring in moderately deep to deep water with no current? Say water 15 -40 feet deep. Do you just drop an anchor straight down at both the transom and bow? I would think that would allow a big fish to easily wrap around one or both anchor lines. I’ve only anchor in that deep of water when there’s a current so the boat ends up quite a ways down stream of the anchor and because the anchor line run at an angle away from the boat, the fish don’t seem to wrap the anchor line too much.

    Also, are you casting your baits quite a ways away or do you just drop them straight down close to the boat.

    Thanks for the help,

    Boone.

    larry_haugh
    MN
    Posts: 1767
    #1196030

    Quote:


    How are you guys anchoring in moderately deep to deep water with no current? Say water 15 -40 feet deep. Do you just drop an anchor straight down at both the transom and bow? I would think that would allow a big fish to easily wrap around one or both anchor lines. I’ve only anchor in that deep of water when there’s a current so the boat ends up quite a ways down stream of the anchor and because the anchor line run at an angle away from the boat, the fish don’t seem to wrap the anchor line too much.

    Also, are you casting your baits quite a ways away or do you just drop them straight down close to the boat.

    Thanks for the help,

    Boone.


    If you have enough rope… (typically people use 100ft lengths.) You drop ONLY one first… Bow or Stern makes no difference. Then you motor as far as that rope will let you and drop your other anchor… Pull rope on both so they your basically centered between the two anchors and ropes /-\ This lessons the chance of them circling both ropes at the same time. Some of the guys will put floats on the end of the anchor rope and disconnect…. float and fight the fish and then come back and reconnect and be reanchored in the exact same spot.

    larry_haugh
    MN
    Posts: 1767
    #1196031

    back on topic….Nice Fish Jakob!

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