Someone Iced a Sturgeon

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

    poppy402
    Eagle Point Wisconsin
    Posts: 948
    #934682

    thatsa 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.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    #934700

    What happens if a sturgeon ‘torpedoes’ in the winter?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #934709

    Hopefully it’s not under someones portable with thin ice.

    dtro
    Inactive
    Jordan
    Posts: 1501
    #934718

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    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.

    Czech
    Cottage Grove, MN
    Posts: 1574
    #934736

    Looks like they had a wrestlng match!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    #934739

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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.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    #934742

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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”

    rangerski
    North Metro
    Posts: 539
    #934784

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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!

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #934791

    Seldom 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.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    #934796

    Aw get your undies out of the bunch they are in, we are just goofing.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
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    #934804

    So you mean I don’t have to agree with Rangerski?

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    #934830

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    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.

    Brian Klawitter
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    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #934840

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    I am downright ornary now.


    I agree.

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    #934859

    Seriously, 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!

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    #935203

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    DNR Response to catch.


    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..

    dtro
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    Jordan
    Posts: 1501
    #935208

    Happy 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.

    outdoors4life
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 1500
    #935248

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    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.”

    dtro
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    Jordan
    Posts: 1501
    #935259

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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.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    #935316

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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.

    Brian Klawitter
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    #938201

    Anyone heard anything just lately about the DNR and this fish?

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    #938218

    No, but the “rumor” is they were targeting them.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #938220

    Nothing about Beanies??

    outdoors4life
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 1500
    #938090

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    Nothing about Beanies??


    Huh?
    DNR won’t ticket him because they can’t prove anything. They are aware some target them though.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    #938255

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    Huh?


    Must have been a rumor…and I’m glad I didn’t post it.

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