February 7, 2011 at 5:41 pm
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Someone Iced a Sturgeon
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February 7, 2011 at 5:56 pm #934678
Looking and the portable in the background and then the size of that sturgeon, I’m guessing it was a tight fit getting her out of the 10 inch hole in a house that size.
My very first sturgeon was caught on the Croix on ice. It was somewhere around 35 inches and my Thorne Bros Ice Rod was never the same.
That must have been some fight!
February 7, 2011 at 5:59 pm #934682thatsa big one! I have got 5 so far this year, with the biggest being 55 inches, and the others in the mid 30’s to mid 40’s. I usualy just cut my line because they take a hour to get in on walleye gear, but when the eyes arent biting ill fight them lol. I had one a month ago that spooled my 1000 sedona in under 30 seconds. I have never felt that much power in any fish before, there was nothing i could do.
dtroInactiveJordanPosts: 1501February 7, 2011 at 8:00 pm #934718Quote:
I had one a month ago that spooled my 1000 sedona in under 30 seconds.
You need to beef up your gear to a 6500 and 30lb PP like this guy was.
February 7, 2011 at 8:39 pm #934739Quote:
Looks like they had a wrestlng match!
Looks to me like they released it after they let it sit on the ice overnight.February 7, 2011 at 8:50 pm #934742Quote:
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Looks like they had a wrestlng match!
Looks to me like they released it after they let it sit on the ice overnight.
“And it sank away under its own power”
February 7, 2011 at 10:08 pm #934784Quote:
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Looks like they had a wrestlng match!
Looks to me like they released it after they let it sit on the ice overnight.
“And it sank away under its own power”
Never fails, always a few that dis-credit a guys story…. Awesome catch, congrats to the angler!
February 7, 2011 at 10:22 pm #934791Seldom would I admit to agreeing with Rangerski…but…
I wouldn’t be able to keep holding her out of the snow either.
I’m just happy he’s holding the fish properly and we don’t have another gill holding poster boy.
Great looking sturgeon and I’m sure he’s dreaming about the fight before he falls asleep each night.
February 7, 2011 at 10:28 pm #934796Aw get your undies out of the bunch they are in, we are just goofing.
February 7, 2011 at 11:27 pm #934830Quote:
So you mean I don’t have to agree with Rangerski?
You are so wishy washy, always agreeing with whatever the last post says.I might have to take a break. I think the super bowl was masking the symptoms of cabin fever. I am downright ornary now.
February 8, 2011 at 1:11 am #934859Seriously, I was joking around with Pug. Looks like it was probably a cold night and that is one huge fish to try to manage out of a little fish house.
Bigger sturgeon than most of us will probably ever catch on open water!
February 8, 2011 at 8:55 pm #935203Quote:
I’ve always sort of wondered about this, and the DNR pretty much summed it up by saying unless he admits it, there is nothing they can do to prove he’s targeting fish out of season.
I guess the line can get blurry whether you are just the world’s worst carp fisherman who happens to slay the walleyes in April..
dtroInactiveJordanPosts: 1501February 8, 2011 at 9:07 pm #935208Happy to see they responded, but it’s basically a free pass.
Why not just make it C&R all year? It’s ridiculous.
Heck that guy should start guiding “walleye” out there.
February 8, 2011 at 10:22 pm #935248Quote:
I guess the line can get blurry whether you are just the world’s worst carp fisherman who happens to slay the walleyes in April..
I love that quote!
I target redhorse in the spring and I catch redhorse. If I caught more walleye than redhorse I would have to find a new place. I even got harsh words from a CO and I asked him to wait a couple minutes and I would show him….he was very nice to me after he saw me catch a couple redhorse and ID them. If you catch 10 sturg for every one walleye are you walleye fishing or sturg fishing. But the press is what was bad on this one. I know a few large ones have been caught but the others I have heard of were on walleye rigs not mod “cat gear.”
dtroInactiveJordanPosts: 1501February 8, 2011 at 10:50 pm #935259Quote:
If you catch 10 sturg for every one walleye are you walleye fishing or sturg fishing.
I think the 6500 with 30lb PP and 2 fatheads was a dead giveaway, but that’s just me.
It’s an imperfect system that could easily be fixed with a year round C&R season…..statewide. The same thing goes on all over the state where it’s not legal yet people fish for them. For example on the Miss, the upper St Croix, St Louis, Kettle and Littlefork rivers, just to name a few.
Those that want to poach a sturgeon are going to do it whether it’s legal to fish for them or not.
February 9, 2011 at 1:54 am #935316Quote:
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If you catch 10 sturg for every one walleye are you walleye fishing or sturg fishing.
I think the 6500 with 30lb PP and 2 fatheads was a dead giveaway, but that’s just me.
It’s an imperfect system that could easily be fixed with a year round C&R season…..statewide. The same thing goes on all over the state where it’s not legal yet people fish for them. For example on the Miss, the upper St Croix, St Louis, Kettle and Littlefork rivers, just to name a few.
Those that want to poach a sturgeon are going to do it whether it’s legal to fish for them or not.
I almost believed it until I read what he was using.CPR year round makes sense, but I think the DNR would rather except that people will target them out of season than to allow all out fishing for them year round.
February 16, 2011 at 11:29 pm #938201Anyone heard anything just lately about the DNR and this fish?
February 17, 2011 at 2:07 am #938090Quote:
Nothing about Beanies??
Huh?
DNR won’t ticket him because they can’t prove anything. They are aware some target them though.February 17, 2011 at 3:07 am #938255
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Huh?
Must have been a rumor…and I’m glad I didn’t post it.
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