I just heard from my Idaho sturgeon fishing buddy. On March 11th he took a newbie sturgeon fishing and the newbie caught his first sturgeon a 8 FOOT 10 INCH MONSTER! That fish would be around 50 years old, and weigh about 372 pounds, and perhaps more because she was full of eggs.
There is a report on the web, but in order to read it one must register with another site.
I sure hope she is hungry again when I fish up there in just a few more weeks!
Sounds like a nice fish.
Kent, I can only see 1 picture.
Don’t know what to tell you. I can see all three pictures, and I didn’t use “Inline” so that isn’t the problem.
gall darn thats a beauty, Im just currious and i am pretty sure that you will know the andswer, what is the state record for idaho?
Yeah hopefully you will be able to land her or another monster near that size, how big was she in your bottom picture?
I’d Love to see those fish, But I cant[:(]
If you want you can right click on the x box’s then go down to properties, this will bring up a web address, copy and paste that address into a new window, thats what i had to do to see the pictures
“…what is the state record for Idaho.” Because it has been illegal to even remove a sturgeon from the water for a number of years, all of the records are old. In 1956 a 394 pound sturgeon was caught with a rod and reel. In 1908 a 675 pound sturgeon was caught on a setline. I have also seen a photograph taken in 1898 showing a 1500-pound, 20-foot monster being dragged by a four-mule team onto a bank below Twin Falls.
I’ve seen that picture with the mule team before… WOW!! Big fish…
Sweet!
WOW, Any links to the picture that a mule team was needed? Make a guy wonder who was more hard headed, the sturgeon or the mule team? But I guess we know, dont we? The fisherman 