Well we have a yearly trip to Rainy Lake on the Canadian side with my work crew. We stay on an island, fish for a few days and take a day or two off work and relax. I was really looking forward to it this year, and since the catfishing bug hit me, I have not fished walleyes too much. I figured this would give me an oportunity to catch a few eyes, and find my inner happy place 
The weekend started off as expected. Catching walleyes, and some nice ones. I will post the pictures below. I caught a nice 27″ and I was refining the presentation to find what works. A copper or silver hammered blade with a 5-6′ snell and a 3″ minnow seemed to be the ticket.
On Sunday, I figured I should try a few techniques that had been working for me on the river lately, so the B-Fish-N jigs came out with a ringworm. Dragging them in 15-18′ of water seemed to be producing fish, and they were hammering them. 
Moved to another spot, and bam, set the hook. I said to Derek that this was not a walleye, it felt very heavy. Before I got the words out of my mouth, 5′ of sturgeon jumped out of the water about 30′ off our boat. I believe the words he used was “Holy Smidt, what the he#$ was that F@$#$%ng Thing.” (edited of course). I said it was a sturgeon, and we were in for a long fight.
He looked at his watch, and while I did the keystone cops routine around the boat, until I could get to the front and get my foot on the trolling motor control. This is when the fight started.
34 minutes later, and 2/3 of a mile on the GPS, we were able to get another look at it, and I knew it was larger then any sturgeon I had previously caught. I came up, looked at the boat and decided it prefered the cooler water below me 
I was of course completely at his mercy.
The next time he came up, I was able to direct him to the net, and we hoisted him aboard our craft. When we put the tape to him, he came in at 66.5″ long. I did not have a tape to get a girth on him, but lets just say he was a chubby guy.
A few pictures and he went back to his haunts, and I had another story to tell.
Sounds like a good time.
