Outdoors4life 56.5 incher 20 girth with an old tag
JakeH? 54incher 19.75 girth
Manny 46 incher
Lowest tag #09,806 Outdoors4life
Pics are from 1st – 3rd in order!
Sorry if I messed up anything I am going off of memory. There was a DQ on a 50 incher being not there by 3.
Sorry mine is the only pic I have. A few of us were there till after 5pm. Also a thanks to Life1978 for landing the fish with me! The 56.5 incher was the tagged fish! 
Awesome fish, Aaron!
Nice fish Aaron! And 
to everyone else!
I look forward to the DNR report from your tagged fish.
This was second place. 54″ x 19.75.
Nice fish guys!!
Can’t wait to hear the story on the tagged fish.
So what were they caught on?
Did they just swim up to the boat??
Details! 
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So what were they caught on?
Did they just swim up to the boat??
Details!
Mine just jumps in and tackled me 
No really shad…..Moore’s Bait and tackle shad of course!
Nice looking fish guys!
WTG!!
A crawler and shad with the tail cut off(the biggest shad i’ve gotten fom Bob) got the 54″er to bite. Didn’t seem like an above average fish til she came nearly all the way out of the water. 10 minutes later and an anchor rope gettin pulled up it was say cheese time
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Didn’t seem like an above average fish til she came nearly all the way out of the water.
Don’tcha just love it!! 
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Didn’t seem like an above average fish til she came nearly all the way out of the water.
Don’tcha just love it!!
Yup and mine was the same way and also anchors up and 10 minutes.
Nice fish, guys! I bet it was a nice day to be on the water.
Congrats on the bigguns.
It was a heck of a lot of fun being able to help out boating that fish Aaron got, I also had one I thought got off and jumped up in my face when I looked over the side of the boat to see if my sinker was coming up. Needless to say I saw a whole lot of my first sturgeon of the day close up 
Also too a slap in the face by my 9 lbs channels tail later on that night!! 
All in all it was a great day and night of fishing and very well worth my sunburned face and head 
ALSO A BIG THANKS TO BOB MOORE FOR PUTTING ON THESE GREAT CONTESTS FOR US TO FISH I CAN”T WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR!!!!!
Nice fish Mates!!!
Congrats on your finishes.
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…shad with the tail cut off…
My brother was doing that too and out fishing me. I started doing that and then started to catch up. Must be something to it. He’d literally just barely nip off the tail.
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…shad with the tail cut off…
My brother was doing that too and out fishing me. I started doing that and then started to catch up. Must be something to it. He’d literally just barely nip off the tail.
Nice fish guys, sorry I couldn’t make the tournament (there should be more than 1 sturgeon tournament each year)! and……nice tip on the tails 
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It will be interesting to see if others see improved catch rates snipping the tail. You wouldn’t think it would make a difference, but then none of us are sturgeon. Early on, I cut the bigger ones in half and that’s when I wasn’t catching as many. So the only reasonable explanation I can think of is is emits a steady scent trail and once they find it, the tasty insides are intact, rewarding them and causing them to hold onto it as they mouth the bait working out the insides and mashing up the rest of it.
???
What do I know though. I just popped my sturgeon cherry.
Nice Fish Guys, Congrats
WAY TO GO JACOB !!!
congradulations on a great fish
I was able to acquire a photo of Manny’s 3rd place Sturgeon for the Moore’s Bait website (Thanks, Steve! 
). I thought I would post it here too, so we can all admire his fish along with the other winners. Its measurements were 46 x 17.
Good job guys!!
Edited to add: I want to encourage all of you guys to submit your photos to Bob’s site! There is an email link at the bottom of his Fishing Photos page to send them to. Moore’s Bait Website
Nice photo! Is that on “the front porch”?
No, we spent the day on the Back Porch. Manny caught that fish within 5 minutes of our setting up to start the day. We lasted until about 1:30 down at the King Plant and then the big boat traffic became unbearable so we moved upstream. We caught one 33″ sturgeon and a small channel cat upstream before we called it a day at 4:30pm.
Seems like many left around 4:30 or so. It might be nice to have a tourney run from 7-4 or whatever, but give us time to meet after for food, beer and bs. Just a thought. 
Food, beer, and BS are three of my favorite things!
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Seems like many left around 4:30 or so. It might be nice to have a tourney run from 7-4 or whatever, but give us time to meet after for food, beer and bs. Just a thought.
No way! the 2 biggest came between 8:30 and 8:45!
I even wish it was like 7am-midnight.
Life and I stayed out for almost 15 hours for a little casting before the contest. and after the contest so I could rest before the drive home.
Well I am off to try and break the next barrier ….60 inches!
O4L…What did you ever find out from the DNR about the history of the tagged fish????? 
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