Out of Deep River - Sturgeon

[Antlershed]

Well we decided not to go quite all the way to Deep River, so we launched a little farther upriver, and fished ALL OVER the place. Final count was six shakers to the boat, a couple fish lost, and a couple other missed hook sets. I think we saw two keepers caught and heard of an oversize over the VHF. Heard some other guys talking on the radio and they said shipwreck was dead. Did hear of a 39.2lb King getting caught today though. 

[actionshooter]

Bit of humor today though, there was a big tide movement, almost 9 feet in 5 hours or something like that. Early this morning we were fishing around Portuguese Pt. just down from Deep River and saw a guide boat high and dry. He made the suicide run from Portuguese Pt. to Tongue Pt. and didnt quite make it They sat there all day, even saw guys on the sand bar throwing a football around.

Pretty sure I saw that boat. There was another high and dry on China beach   

 I guess I shouldn't laugh, we hit sand once 
Same as everyone else, Saturday SUCKED big time. We fished from the church to tongue point= looonnnng day.
 Checked with 3 guys I know who own charters and they were running about 50% on keepers.  Didn't even bother today.

[jackelope]

that fish that jim is holding is actually an oversized fish.
 

[huntnphool]

No news yet on the F&G site about a closure.

[popeshawnpaul]

It could close for all I care.  I'm done with sturgeon for a while...   

[huntnphool]

 

[Wea300mag]

Instead of starting a new thread I will add some pics from our trip to the happy sturgeon fishing grounds. My fish (first pic) was 46+" and 50Cal's was 42". It was amazing how much thicker the 46" fish was compared to the 42". I added a pic of an undersize that we promptly released, along with some other misc pics. We do need to give phool some props for taking 50Cal out last year. We fish quite a bit around here for salmon, halibut, lings, crab, and shrimp but knew very little about sturgeon fishing before 50Cal's trip. This was the first time I have ever fished for sturgeon and the first, and only, fish I caught. I'm going to attribute it to "clean living".

[huntnphool]

Great pics Dan, good eats too

[Antlershed]

That water looks fairly smooth. We fought the wind all day, but with 3 wind socks out we held fairly straight.   

[huntnphool]

That water looks fairly smooth. We fought the wind all day, but with 3 wind socks out we held fairly straight.

 I get tired of pulling them in while fighting fish and throwing them back out, I just use my kicker now, it doesnt use much gas.

[ghgetter]

Down by the dam last week was good. Between the three of us we took in over thirty fish. Had it been Thursday we would have had 4 keepers...and this oversized one of our guys caught.

Shad count is/was way low...really had to work for our bait.

[Antlershed]

That water looks fairly smooth. We fought the wind all day, but with 3 wind socks out we held fairly straight.

 I get tired of pulling them in while fighting fish and throwing them back out, I just use my kicker now, it doesnt use much gas.

Towards the end of the tide I was using all 3 socks and the kicker in reverse. 

[cohoho]

Knew I should have went east versus west............   Sounded like you had a great day...

[PST]

Fished out of Deep River all this last weekend, with little success.  Definitely not like years past.

Friday - My father lost a large fish and one other missed bite.  Nothing to the boat.

Saturday - One keeper (45") and one peeler lost (about had us spooled by the time we got the anchor released).  Weren't prepared for that one plus a loose drag.

Sunday - Fought the wind all day but did manage one keeper (44") and two shakers, both (39 1/2").

Overall had a great time, weather was beautiful, except for the wind sunday.  Seemed like the best bite was within an hour after tide change in the morning.  Fished various depths and many different spots (deep river area all the way to the bridge).  Most fish were caught in 11'.

Will post pics when I receive the email.

[h2ofowlr]

My keeper from below the Astoria Bridge.