It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

October is finally here so I headed out for my first sturgeon trip of
the season. I hooked the boat to the coach and headed for Delta
Marina. I spent three days fishing; Monday at Decker Island, and
Tuesday and Wednesday at my honey hole on Suisun Bay.

I struck out, but my fishing buddy John reeled in a nice one on Suisun
on Tuesday. It was a good fighting 48"er that we released, probably a
male. He fell for John's lamprey eel. He was caught on an incoming
tide. The weather that day was perfect - in fact a bit too much sun
for sitting and waiting on a sturgeon. The water was like a mirror
much of the time.

Wednesday my friend Willie joined me at The Striper Cafe for breakfast
before we headed down to Suisun again. We hammered our way across
Suisun Bay with the wind blowing and the bay very lumpy. But when the
current changed to incoming, the water settled down to a tolerable
chop. We tried for several hours, till slack water, but couldn't fool
any fish. We headed back to Rio Vista and the water was much calmer
than that morning hammering.

Photos and videos on my homepage: http://fishwisher.wordpress.com/

It was a grand three days on the delta. I'm looking forward to the
next trip...

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:10:53 -0700 (PDT), FishWisher
wrote:

Photos and videos on my homepage: http://fishwisher.wordpress.com/

It was a grand three days on the delta. I'm looking forward to the
next trip...

Dale, good report and video, thanks.

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:10:53 -0700 (PDT), FishWisher
wrote:

October is finally here so I headed out for my first sturgeon trip of
the season. I hooked the boat to the coach and headed for Delta
Marina. I spent three days fishing; Monday at Decker Island, and
Tuesday and Wednesday at my honey hole on Suisun Bay.

I struck out, but my fishing buddy John reeled in a nice one on Suisun
on Tuesday. It was a good fighting 48"er that we released, probably a
male. He fell for John's lamprey eel. He was caught on an incoming
tide. The weather that day was perfect - in fact a bit too much sun
for sitting and waiting on a sturgeon. The water was like a mirror
much of the time.

Wednesday my friend Willie joined me at The Striper Cafe for breakfast
before we headed down to Suisun again. We hammered our way across
Suisun Bay with the wind blowing and the bay very lumpy. But when the
current changed to incoming, the water settled down to a tolerable
chop. We tried for several hours, till slack water, but couldn't fool
any fish. We headed back to Rio Vista and the water was much calmer
than that morning hammering.

Photos and videos on my homepage: http://fishwisher.wordpress.com/

It was a grand three days on the delta. I'm looking forward to the
next trip...

Great! I loved the boat show. That *was* a coincidence. Great video, but next
time don't stand in front of the camera! :)

What was the stick with the turquoise ribbon attached? It looked like something
you'd use for playing with a cat.
--
John H

All decisions are the result of binary thinking.

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

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

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

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 October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

"Paul@BYC" wrote in message
...
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. :)

I'd never seen a picture of one until reading Dale's blog. They look like
swimming dinosaurs to me:-}

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

On Oct 24, 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

Cool. Thanks.

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

On Oct 24, 10:55*am, "Paul@BYC" 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

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

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.

It's October - and Another Suisun Bay Sturgeon!
 

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:58:26 -0400, "Paul@BYC"
wrote:

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.

November on Long Island Sound can be really nice some years but every
once in a while things get really ugly. For several years in a row
back in the early 2000s we had a tradition of taking the boat for a
ride on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and then the last time we got
caught in a snow storm.