Awesome post
I wanna catch one of those dinosaurs, looks like a ton of fun!
Wow, lots of questions, but I’m up to trying to answer them. Yes this place is next to Twin Falls, so it is closer and a day-trip is doable. Not hauling the boat allows one to drive up in an economical vehicle and save substantially in the expense of the trip.
There are pros and cons with shore fishing. The pro is one can move around more by not being stuck on a boat and stretch one’s legs (although sitting on a rock all day is not great on the back). The cons are one has to carry everything in and one can’t follow the fish after it is hooked. Also, fighting a fish from a large cliff is a little unnerving. I only hauled one small bait cooler and everything else (except for the two rods) fit into a back pack.
One definitely needs more line when fishing from the shore than from a boat. More line is needed there, because I couldn’t quite cast far enough and if I would have added more weight so that I could cast further I wouldn’t have been left with enough spare line to fight the fish. Maybe I could get enough Power Pro (think that is what it is called) on a Penn 350, but not sure. I already own one large spinning reel that I am going to rig up with Power Pro line.
NICE Fish! I Agree about the hunt to get there and the callange of getting It laned in those conditions. The fun Is trying to land-It touch it and release It. Good Job, I must get out in that area again soon..Tom
Randy,
I agree with Kent that are definitely reasons for and against both types of fishing. You really can’t beat the shore fishing when it comes to time. As you are well aware, it takes a lot of work to get the boat out there, plus dealing with the tents, food, packing for multiple days, is quite time consuming. So to go for one day and be back later that night is a huge plus in my book.
I do think that there are some major challenges with landing a huge fish from the shore, even with the tackle I had. There is a huge rock ledge that you fish from and a number of the sturgeon I caught stayed really close to that ledge and one even broke me off. It is hard to keep the sturgeon out of the rocks from shore. There are still difficulties in doing it from a boat, but not as much compared to the shore. And I am not sure what would happen if we hooked into a 7 plus footer. You have more control in fighting the fish from a boat.
So I prefer boat fishing when time allows and shore fishing when time is limited. In regards to success, I don’t know if I have cauhgt five fish from the boat in one day so it is at least as good. But if the fish are not in that spot, you can’t move around to locate the fish so that could be a concern, but not this last time.
More snags from shore as well.
The smaller daimeter powerpro will help with line capacity. But Kent’s reels are not entirely spooled up with line so that would help some as well. The bigger issue may be finding a reel that you can cast a far distance. It is a little harder without a spinning reel. The spinning reel I used was made for this type of thing, but mine runs over $150. I am not that familiar with other types of spinning reels which might be beefy enough for this type of fishing, but not cost you an arm and a leg. I also had a baitcasting style reel that was made for long casts, but I still had difficulty getting it out far enough. All of the fish were caught on the spinning reel.
I sturgeon fish alot and a good name for spinning reels is okuma. I have an avenger baitfeeder 90 its HUGE, holds 330yds of 30lb mono. And i also have a okuma avenger 80. You can get the avenger bf 90 on catfishconnection for cheap! I can cast pretty far with the spinning reel, as far as i need to.
Thanks for the detailed report and the pictures. I am going to try fishing for sturgeon sometime.