Sturgeon in Black Lake?

[billythekidrock]

My brother's ex just called him and told him that she saw on the news that they found a dead 300 lb sturgeon in Black Lake. Supposedly the report was that it could have swam up the Black River (coming from the Chehalis river).

Any one hear this?

[smdave]

When they loaded it into the Fish and Game truck the tail was sticking out of the tailgate. I did not here 300lbs (I stand corrected) but they said 7feet long.
http://www.kirotv.com/slideshow/news/13764464/detail.html
Dave

[bobcat]

I don't see how it could have got from the Black River into Black Lake. Have you ever tried to do that in a boat? I have. It's just a swamp in there. No real channel that I could find. But who knows, maybe when the water was high it may have been possible.

[PolarBear]

I bet it was dumped there! 

[billythekidrock]

I don't see how it could have got from the Black River into Black Lake. Have you ever tried to do that in a boat? I have. It's just a swamp in there. No real channel that I could find. But who knows, maybe when the water was high it may have been possible.

For a boat it is like one large swampy beaver dam. Not sure how it would be for a fish to get through, but I do know that chinook end up in the lake as well. I don't know if it is from the river end or the ditch end.

That sturgeon had to be very old so it is possible that it came up 100 years ago. Maybe the lake wasn't so blocked off back then.

Don't know...

[jackelope]

It was on the news this morning. the guy that took pic's of it said he saw a 3' long "fish" there last year...i kind of took that as meaning a 3' sturgeon but he never specified. the guy lives on the lake.

[bobcat]

That sturgeon had to be very old so it is possible that it came up 100 years ago. Maybe the lake wasn't so blocked off back then.

Don't know...

Yeah you're right about that, who knows how long it's been in the lake (if in fact it did get there on it's own.)  100 years ago they used to bring the mail by canoe from Grays Harbor up the Chehalis River and then up the Black River, and into Black Lake, and then to Olympia from there. So yes I imagine back then it probably was a lot more open where the river comes out of Black Lake than it is now.

[Krustypuff]

My aunt use to run a camp ground on black lake a few years back and i can rember sitting at her place with the old man and her hubby and him talking about a sturgeon that was caught in the lake. Wasnt a very big one but they have heard about a occasinal one being caught
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[billythekidrock]

The news paper had a sentence that read to the effect of " sturgeon were native to Black Lake".