April 21st Sturgeon Excursion!

[TSCTSC]

What about weight? Did you use a sliding weight or just one attached to a swivel?

[Tyler Holm]

All in all, we had a great trip. We ended the weekend with 19 sturgeon, and several eel pout and suckers. I had a tremendous time and would like to thank everyone involved in setting this thing up.

We fished Friday night, but only ended up with suckers. On Saturday were where “that boat” for about 4 hours. We put on a show putting 14 sturgeon in the boat in 4 hours. It didn’t take the crowd long to gather around and the fishing to slow. Those were the best 4 hours of fishing I’ve had a in a long time.

Our biggest was 52” followed by a 43” After that our average size fell considerably with several in the mid 30’s

We did end up with 1 tagged fish.

52"er

Wow is this ever FUN!

This eagle came and stole a fish from these gulls and they got [PoorWordUsage]ed and chased it away

Kiss goodbye till next year!

[barnyard]

Huh, in your last photo, it kind of looks like my boat in the background. We fished just north of you pretty much all weekend. We didn't catch any large fish, but lots of them.

need to get those 2 rolls of film processed....

Tom B

[Mark Christianson]

Hey Barnyard

We were anchored directly behind the cameraman on that last pic.

[barnyard]

Cripes, we were all in that same little stretch. We spent most of our time in a line from that big resort/restaurant and the orange windsock.

We idled everywhere we went. Got home, replaced the spark plugs and everything runs fine.

Go Figure.

Tom B

[TSCTSC]

Barnyard, great to know that your problem was fixed.

BTW...FisherKing asked about the fishing on Sunday. It was the best for me. We did not hook many but we did manage to get a 51" that took 90 min to bring in on a 12lb walleye rig. We were fishing real light cos we were not hitting too many fish. Thank goodness the Cajun red and the walleye rod held up. The fish sure felt heavy and it did make quite a number of runs both on the water and down deep. It made very big arches on the fishfinder and I could see how far down it was. At its best run, it took at the most 70-80 feet of line quite slowly, but very strongly. A salmon, on the other hand, even on a 20lb rig, would rip off 100-200 feet of line in a blink of an eye.

So here is the fish for Sunday:

On Monday was a cold, miserable, windy day like I mentioned before. Absolutely different from the idyllic weekend. But fish were biting still. We hooked a handful of 20+ and 30+ inchers. Lost 2 which we felt was a 25 and a 35, from lousy drag on a long unused reel. Swapped to pfleuger reel and stopped losing them.

I wanna thank FM for organizing this great trip for all of us.