On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:35:58 -0800, "FishWisher"
wrote:

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For those interested in sturgeon fishing, check my homepage (below). There
is a lot about sturgeon and sturgeon fishing there.

They are protected here in CT. I "caught" one accidentally while cat
fishing at the I-90 bridge over the Connecticut River a few years ago
- early March. As soon as I saw what I had, I grabbed the needle nose
and released it after a minute or two recovery time in a net.

Big time fine for one of those beasties.

Never knew you could eat them though.

Later,

Tom

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:20:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:56:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

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Nice fish - now what the hell do you do with it?

It performs sturgery?

Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!!!!

I asked yesterday.

Ah - and did you get an answer?

Eventually. I did learn that sturgeon was no greater tuna.

Um....er....Ok....

Later,

Tom

"FishWisher" wrote in message
...
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.

I read a story a couple of years ago about flying sturgeon up in the
Panhandle Area. A 6 foot sturgeon jumped out of the water, drilled some guy
in the chest, broke his sternum and some ribs, and nearly knocked him out of
the boat.

And some people say that fishing isn't a sport!

Here's the link:
http://www.southeasternfish.org/Docu...0sturgeons.htm

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:44:35 -0500, "NOYB" wrote:


"FishWisher" wrote in message
...
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.

I read a story a couple of years ago about flying sturgeon up in the
Panhandle Area. A 6 foot sturgeon jumped out of the water, drilled some guy
in the chest, broke his sternum and some ribs, and nearly knocked him out of
the boat.

And some people say that fishing isn't a sport!

I was in the vicinity when this happened and heard the aftermath on
the radio, but I didn't see it. A friend of mine was within 60 yards
of the event.

Apparently four guys in a 24 foot Hydra Sports CC latched onto a small
mako - about 5/6 feet or so and very athletic. It sounded aft of the
boat and all of a sudden came right up out of the water and into the
boat. The mako started taking chunks out of everything in site and
just beating the hell out of the interior of the boat. The four guys
were hanging off the T-top trying to avoid getting whacked or a piece
taken out of their hide.

In an odd twist of fate, the fish had broken off the line at some
point and with one flip/flop went back over the stern and swam away.

I gathered from the after action report that the interior of the boat
was trashed.

Later,

Tom

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:44:35 -0500, "NOYB" wrote:


"FishWisher" wrote in message
...
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.

I read a story a couple of years ago about flying sturgeon up in the
Panhandle Area. A 6 foot sturgeon jumped out of the water, drilled some
guy
in the chest, broke his sternum and some ribs, and nearly knocked him out
of
the boat.

And some people say that fishing isn't a sport!

I was in the vicinity when this happened and heard the aftermath on
the radio, but I didn't see it. A friend of mine was within 60 yards
of the event.

Apparently four guys in a 24 foot Hydra Sports CC latched onto a small
mako - about 5/6 feet or so and very athletic. It sounded aft of the
boat and all of a sudden came right up out of the water and into the
boat. The mako started taking chunks out of everything in site and
just beating the hell out of the interior of the boat. The four guys
were hanging off the T-top trying to avoid getting whacked or a piece
taken out of their hide.

In an odd twist of fate, the fish had broken off the line at some
point and with one flip/flop went back over the stern and swam away.

I gathered from the after action report that the interior of the boat
was trashed.

When I lived in Long Island, a friend's dad ran a charter boat out of Bay
Shore. Mostly he went for flounder, but sometimes, clients would ask to go
chasing sharks. For those trips, he brought a shotgun along, and whatever
size slugs you'd use for bears. Said he'd seen too many shark hunters come
back to the marina with some of their boats' windows gone.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:58:27 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

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Hey...we fishin guys are nuttin if not macho!

I'm not at all sure that I would have been hanging off the T-top.

More likely I would have been standing on it. :)

Later,

Tom

FishWisher wrote:
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

--
Dale Gillespie

I spent awhile in Martinez, and never got a chance to go sturgeon
fishing. Seen a nice one caught off of the Martinez pier, though.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

Apparently four guys in a 24 foot Hydra Sports CC latched onto a small
mako - about 5/6 feet or so and very athletic. It sounded aft of the
boat and all of a sudden came right up out of the water and into the
boat. The mako started taking chunks out of everything in site and
just beating the hell out of the interior of the boat. The four guys
were hanging off the T-top trying to avoid getting whacked or a piece
taken out of their hide.


"The thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's
eyes. When it comes at you it doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites
you, and those black eyes roll over white."

-Quint

I love that quote (and movie).

--Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "RG"
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: Sturgeon!


"The thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a
doll's
eyes. When it comes at you it doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites
you, and those black eyes roll over white."

-Quint

Doug Kanter wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:44:35 -0500, "NOYB" wrote:


"FishWisher" wrote in message
...
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.

I read a story a couple of years ago about flying sturgeon up in
the
Panhandle Area. A 6 foot sturgeon jumped out of the water, drilled
some
guy
in the chest, broke his sternum and some ribs, and nearly knocked
him out
of
the boat.

And some people say that fishing isn't a sport!

I was in the vicinity when this happened and heard the aftermath on
the radio, but I didn't see it. A friend of mine was within 60
yards
of the event.

Apparently four guys in a 24 foot Hydra Sports CC latched onto a
small
mako - about 5/6 feet or so and very athletic. It sounded aft of
the
boat and all of a sudden came right up out of the water and into
the
boat. The mako started taking chunks out of everything in site and
just beating the hell out of the interior of the boat. The four
guys
were hanging off the T-top trying to avoid getting whacked or a
piece
taken out of their hide.

In an odd twist of fate, the fish had broken off the line at some
point and with one flip/flop went back over the stern and swam
away.

I gathered from the after action report that the interior of the
boat
was trashed.

When I lived in Long Island, a friend's dad ran a charter boat out of
Bay
Shore. Mostly he went for flounder, but sometimes, clients would ask
to go
chasing sharks. For those trips, he brought a shotgun along, and
whatever
size slugs you'd use for bears. Said he'd seen too many shark hunters
come
back to the marina with some of their boats' windows gone.

I would wonder about fishing with a shotgun? I suppose if they're
jumping out of the water, you can shoot them on the wing. Sort of like
pheasant hunting, its not very sporting if you shoot them on the
ground. Of course if you shoot to low, and blast a hole in your hull,
the shark will be having you for dinner. TnT