It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

"Paul@BYC" wrote in message ...

On 10/27/2010 9:21 PM, FishWisher wrote:
On Oct 24, 10:55 am, wrote:
On 10/24/2010 12:34 PM, FishWisher wrote:

Thanks, guys.

The stick and ribbon is plastic gardening tape, marked at 46' and is
66" long. I lay it beside the sturgeon when they finally come to the
boat to see if they're in our slot limit of 46" to 66". It makes me a
better guesser of their length so we stay legal when we decide to keep
one. When we do, we have to tag them just like tagging deer.

Dale

Sturgeon? Holy ****! That's something we don't see a lot of (or any of)
near or in LI Sound. Are they good eating?

Along the Connecticut shore, we have some nice sized stripers, porgies,
snapper blues and big blues, sand sharks. conors (all bones, nothing to
eat), et cetera. If you go up the Connecticut River a ways, there are
pike.

No sturgeons. :)

It's sad, but it seems you are correct. According to
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2723&Q=325960 they are extinct
along Connecticut's shore.

An excerpt from that site: "...Atlantic sturgeon native to Connecticut
waters are believed to be extinct."

There are many efforts along the west coast to keep the white sturgeon
population healthy, and they surely seem to be. But here in
Kalifornistan we have only about 150 sworn DFG agents to protect the
whole state. Poaching is a big problem.

Dale


Dale, I've never caught or even seen an Atlantic sturgeon someone else
caught. Apparently there are some that find their way here by mistake.

Stripers are plentiful right now, though. I'm going to get out there and
catch one this weekend if the weather cooperates. Probably be the last
time out before I haul the boat for the winter.


Reply:
Depends on the weather here. A lot of us do not put the boat away for
winter. The ski boats do get put away for the winter. Well at least most
do. We fish the bay and delta for the winter, and crab starting the 6th in
the ocean. Most fishing is closed down in the ocean the rest of the year,
so it is stripers, sturgeon, and black bass in the delta and some steelhead
in the rivers. But San Francisco area only gets a light dusting of snow
about every 20 years. Will get freezing in the delta, but lots of nice days
during the winter here. Ocean can get nasty this time of year. they are
getting 32' seas off Oregon now. That is correct 32 foot swells.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6le0ZDlu_Pw

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

On 10/28/2010 11:58 AM, Califbill wrote:
"Paul@BYC" wrote in message ...

On 10/27/2010 9:21 PM, FishWisher wrote:
On Oct 24, 10:55 am, wrote:
On 10/24/2010 12:34 PM, FishWisher wrote:

Thanks, guys.

The stick and ribbon is plastic gardening tape, marked at 46' and is
66" long. I lay it beside the sturgeon when they finally come to the
boat to see if they're in our slot limit of 46" to 66". It makes me a
better guesser of their length so we stay legal when we decide to keep
one. When we do, we have to tag them just like tagging deer.

Dale

Sturgeon? Holy ****! That's something we don't see a lot of (or any of)
near or in LI Sound. Are they good eating?

Along the Connecticut shore, we have some nice sized stripers, porgies,
snapper blues and big blues, sand sharks. conors (all bones, nothing to
eat), et cetera. If you go up the Connecticut River a ways, there are
pike.

No sturgeons. :)

It's sad, but it seems you are correct. According to
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2723&Q=325960 they are extinct
along Connecticut's shore.

An excerpt from that site: "...Atlantic sturgeon native to Connecticut
waters are believed to be extinct."

There are many efforts along the west coast to keep the white sturgeon
population healthy, and they surely seem to be. But here in
Kalifornistan we have only about 150 sworn DFG agents to protect the
whole state. Poaching is a big problem.

Dale


Dale, I've never caught or even seen an Atlantic sturgeon someone else
caught. Apparently there are some that find their way here by mistake.

Stripers are plentiful right now, though. I'm going to get out there and
catch one this weekend if the weather cooperates. Probably be the last
time out before I haul the boat for the winter.


Reply:
Depends on the weather here. A lot of us do not put the boat away for
winter. The ski boats do get put away for the winter. Well at least most
do. We fish the bay and delta for the winter, and crab starting the 6th
in the ocean. Most fishing is closed down in the ocean the rest of the
year, so it is stripers, sturgeon, and black bass in the delta and some
steelhead in the rivers. But San Francisco area only gets a light
dusting of snow about every 20 years. Will get freezing in the delta,
but lots of nice days during the winter here. Ocean can get nasty this
time of year. they are getting 32' seas off Oregon now. That is correct
32 foot swells.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6le0ZDlu_Pw




Holy Moly! Thanks for sharing that. Wow!

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:58:56 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote:

"Paul@BYC" wrote in message ...

On 10/27/2010 9:21 PM, FishWisher wrote:
On Oct 24, 10:55 am, wrote:
On 10/24/2010 12:34 PM, FishWisher wrote:

Thanks, guys.

The stick and ribbon is plastic gardening tape, marked at 46' and is
66" long. I lay it beside the sturgeon when they finally come to the
boat to see if they're in our slot limit of 46" to 66". It makes me a
better guesser of their length so we stay legal when we decide to keep
one. When we do, we have to tag them just like tagging deer.

Dale

Sturgeon? Holy ****! That's something we don't see a lot of (or any of)
near or in LI Sound. Are they good eating?

Along the Connecticut shore, we have some nice sized stripers, porgies,
snapper blues and big blues, sand sharks. conors (all bones, nothing to
eat), et cetera. If you go up the Connecticut River a ways, there are
pike.

No sturgeons. :)

It's sad, but it seems you are correct. According to
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2723&Q=325960 they are extinct
along Connecticut's shore.

An excerpt from that site: "...Atlantic sturgeon native to Connecticut
waters are believed to be extinct."

There are many efforts along the west coast to keep the white sturgeon
population healthy, and they surely seem to be. But here in
Kalifornistan we have only about 150 sworn DFG agents to protect the
whole state. Poaching is a big problem.

Dale


Dale, I've never caught or even seen an Atlantic sturgeon someone else
caught. Apparently there are some that find their way here by mistake.

Stripers are plentiful right now, though. I'm going to get out there and
catch one this weekend if the weather cooperates. Probably be the last
time out before I haul the boat for the winter.


Reply:
Depends on the weather here. A lot of us do not put the boat away for
winter. The ski boats do get put away for the winter. Well at least most
do. We fish the bay and delta for the winter, and crab starting the 6th in
the ocean. Most fishing is closed down in the ocean the rest of the year,
so it is stripers, sturgeon, and black bass in the delta and some steelhead
in the rivers. But San Francisco area only gets a light dusting of snow
about every 20 years. Will get freezing in the delta, but lots of nice days
during the winter here. Ocean can get nasty this time of year. they are
getting 32' seas off Oregon now. That is correct 32 foot swells.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6le0ZDlu_Pw


Are they waves or swells? What's the difference?
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