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FishWisher
10-23-2009, 04:29 PM
This week's three day sturgeon safari just off the ship channel near Decker Island, just south of Rio Vista, Ca on the Sacramento River was unusually productive!

I had five hooked over the three days, and three of them to the boat. I released two at opposite ends of the slot - one about 46" and maybe 25 pounds, another around 66" and 65+ pounds, I'd guess. I couldn't get a good measure of him in the water, so released him to pursue his pleasure upriver at the spawn. I kept one at 49" and 30 pounds. (That's my second kept sturgie of the year; I now have one tag left.)Every one of them took the same old lamprey eel I've been carving on for six months - actually longer than that, I think. I've frozen and thawed it several times, and it still works great! Figuring the time one eel lasts, at $40 per, they're still the cheapest sturgeon bait around!

Wow! I'm still buzzed. It was an exciting three days of brawling with the mighty sturgeon.


Dale