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Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« on: July 27, 2015, 11:24:40 AM »
Just curious if anyone has ever caught a sturgeon like jigging for halibut or anything.  Maybe not directly in a river delta, because I know people have done that with success.  I was wondering how far out in the salt they make it and where they're at when they're out there.

I don't intend to fish for them or anything, but am really curious as to what people have seen?  You'd think that someone would pick them up bottom fishing if they were out in the salt very far.

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Re: Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2015, 11:42:17 AM »
Just curious if anyone has ever caught a sturgeon like jigging for halibut or anything.  Maybe not directly in a river delta, because I know people have done that with success.  I was wondering how far out in the salt they make it and where they're at when they're out there.

I don't intend to fish for them or anything, but am really curious as to what people have seen?  You'd think that someone would pick them up bottom fishing if they were out in the salt very far.

 :dunno:

 There was a sturgeon caught in Russia a few years ago that was caught and tagged in the Columbia, I think that may answer your "how far" question. ;)
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Re: Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2015, 12:36:13 PM »
I have never heard of that.


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Re: Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2015, 01:01:35 PM »
Very interesting! The Columbia to Russia? Wow.
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2015, 01:07:14 PM »
Very interesting! The Columbia to Russia? Wow.

I don't know specifically where but guessing somewhere toward the end of the Aleutian Chain. Info came from a couple WDFW bio's I was talking to a while back, take that FWIW but I believe them.
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Re: Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2015, 01:16:45 PM »
Green Sturgeon spend most of their life in salt water.  They are in the rivers as Juveniles and then again when it's time to spawn.   http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/fish/greensturgeon.htm


White Sturgeon on the other hand hang in the rivers and bays.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sturgeon

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Re: Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2015, 02:37:46 PM »
I have caught several green sturgeon while fishing close to the Westport bar and saw one jump yesterday on the way out. The greens don't go up river very far here staying in tide water. The whites are known as world travelers and like was said Russia even into Alaska from there main home of the Columbia river. Caught a lot in the upper river but have never hooked any of those in the ocean.

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Re: Anyone ever catch sturgeon in deep salt water?
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2015, 09:08:25 PM »
I think you'd be looked at anchoring in the bar...   :chuckle: :tup:  Be fun on a nice calm day just to see if you'd actually get into them..

 


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