Awesome day of sturgeon fishing!!!!

[bullcanyon]

Three buddies and I rolled out of town at 3am heading for a new to us sturgeon destination.  Fished it from the bank a few times, but never had the boat there.  We ran down to a general area that I had gotten info about from a few fellow fisherman and started cruising for fish.  Took us about 30 min before we seen enough on the finder to drop the hook.  We have a ton of faith in the ff and if it don't show us much we won't drop.  So after 6 failed attempts to get the anchor to not break the old crappy zip ties.  We finally held on the spot.  It was the best day fishing that any of us had ever had.  We had doubles into the teens and several triples.  Brought over a dozen keepers to the boat and landed over 75 fish.  It was so hectic we had a hard time videoing without the guy running the camera getting a bite. Biggest keeper was 53" and the smallest was 43".  With a ton of fish right around 38" that we didn't even measure.  We blew through 4 dozen herring, 5 bags of smelt, some sand shrimp, and even some clam neck.  Had squid, but no one wanted it on their hands:)  It was hard to get time to eat a sandwich. 

[robodad]

See Mike, it can be done !!                 


Nice job you guys, looks like a beautiful day on the river too !!  

[SkookumHntr]

wow, what a bite!

[shoot-em-dead]

Been on a couple trips like that and I love the ache in the arms the next day. Thanks for posting your awsome day.

[cohoho]

See Mike, it can be done !!                 


Nice job you guys, looks like a beautiful day on the river too !!  

It does whenever your not in the boat!!!!!!!!!!!   

Great job Bull, great job, looks like the winds were way down too, how was the current??? 

[bullcanyon]

It was moving pretty good. We were throwing 32oz in that deeper water.  We ran low on them and ended up throwing a few 40oz leads to stay closer to the boat.  One buddy threw a 20oz lead for most of the day, but he had to walk it back a bit.

One thing that I learned that I never worried about was checking the dacron leader after a fish.  I broke two fish off on the hook set.  Both of them were on the leader.  We actually caught one of em and it was a nice keeper.  These fish have super sharp diamonds and they were fraying our leaders on the ones that rolled in the line.  I've caught hundreds of sturgeon and never once broke a dacron leader.  I think I thought the stuff was like winch line or something:)  Just an fyi.

Kris

[400out]

Very good day on the river! 

[Joshuadavis9]

Impressive!  Where did you guys go?

[carpsniperg2]

What a day of fishing! Congrats!

[h20hunter]

Sounds like a hell of a trip. I look forward to the video being put up soon.

[goosegetter79]

Very nice!!!

[bullcanyon]

Here's a pic of my lil 43".  I got the first keeper and it ended up being the smallest. 

[boonerboy]

sounds like an awesome day on the river!! Now I wanna go..........BAD!

[bullcanyon]

Here's a quick video I threw up. Not the greatest, but you'll get the gist of it.  Fishing was so hectic that we didn't do real well on the follow through with the video.  Usually had to shut it off to get a bite:)

Sturgeon fishing on the columbia river

[HntnFsh]

Great video Kris.Looked like you picked a beautiful day.And had a blast.