Nice fish,
I live on Lake St. Clair in MI, one of the best Sturgeon waters around, and
have never caught one, but I never gave it a real effort. That's a nice fish
for this lake as well!

Congratulations on a nice fish.

As far as being appropriate for this group, this is much easier reading than
reading some of these children fight each other utilizing a news group as a
medium..

Take care!
"FishWisher" wrote in message
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I dunno... this is about catching sturgeon, not Bush or sex or commies. Is
fishing considered OT on rec.boats?

Anyway, I finally caught my first sturgeon of the season on my fifth try.
I cruised down to Suisun Bay (on the California Delta) Wednesday afternoon
to spend the night near Garnet Point. About 10:30 I had a feisty, tough
sturgeon on that seemed a lot bigger than he turned out to be. He weighed
in at 43 pounds and measured 58". It took me nearly twenty minutes to get
him to the boat. He was a very slender, tough male.

He took lamprey, a bait I haven't used in a couple of years. In fact, both
sturgeon (one 3' shaker that I released) that night took lamprey. I
alternated the 2nd hook with shad or ghost shrimp and both sturgeon chose
the lamprey. I reckon I'll keep using that for awhile.

Photo at my homepage:
http://groups.msn.com/FishWishersHom...stfishing.msnw

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Dale Gillespie