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Title: Awesome day of sturgeon fishing!!!!
Post by: bullcanyon on January 28, 2011, 09:30:02 AM: 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.
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Post by: robodad on January 28, 2011, 09:34:10 AM: See Mike, it can be done !! :P :peep:

Nice job you guys, looks like a beautiful day on the river too !! ;)
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Post by: SkookumHntr on January 28, 2011, 09:35:10 AM: wow, what a bite!
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Post by: shoot-em-dead on January 28, 2011, 09:38:29 AM: Been on a couple trips like that and I love the ache in the arms the next day. Thanks for posting your awsome day.
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Post by: cohoho on January 28, 2011, 02:43:50 PM: Quote from: robodad on January 28, 2011, 09:34:10 AM
See Mike, it can be done !! :P :peep:

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

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

Great job Bull, great job, looks like the winds were way down too, how was the current???
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Post by: bullcanyon on January 28, 2011, 03:35:35 PM: 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
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Post by: 400out on January 28, 2011, 03:40:12 PM: Very good day on the river! :yike:
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Post by: Joshuadavis9 on January 28, 2011, 03:41:02 PM: Impressive! Where did you guys go?
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 28, 2011, 03:58:45 PM: What a day of fishing! Congrats!
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Post by: h20hunter on January 28, 2011, 04:11:41 PM: Sounds like a hell of a trip. I look forward to the video being put up soon.
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Post by: goosegetter79 on January 28, 2011, 06:32:45 PM: Very nice!!! :drool:
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Post by: bullcanyon on January 28, 2011, 06:41:05 PM: Here's a pic of my lil 43". I got the first keeper and it ended up being the smallest.
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Post by: boonerboy on January 28, 2011, 07:00:14 PM: sounds like an awesome day on the river!! Now I wanna go..........BAD!
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Post by: bullcanyon on January 29, 2011, 05:44:48 PM: 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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr7441d_ab8#)
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Post by: HntnFsh on January 30, 2011, 10:06:59 AM: Great video Kris.Looked like you picked a beautiful day.And had a blast.
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Post by: BigD on January 30, 2011, 10:28:35 AM: Nice job, I like the sound trak on the video.
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Post by: randya on January 30, 2011, 03:53:01 PM: man whoever this is that has the boat really must know what there doing never heard of a stergoun catch like that amazing :yike:
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Post by: MoleyMolson on January 31, 2011, 03:21:00 PM: Quote from: randya on January 30, 2011, 03:53:01 PM
man whoever this is that has the boat really must know what there doing never heard of a stergoun catch like that amazing :yike:

Perhaps the funniest thing I've read on the internet in quite some time! HA!
Well done Kris! I had to present the middle finger to your wife multiple times as she was leaving Friday night, bragging about all the sturgeon she was gonna go home and eat.
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Post by: Alan K on January 31, 2011, 03:25:43 PM: Heck of a day!
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Post by: bullcanyon on January 31, 2011, 05:32:35 PM: Ya she said you were flipping her the birdie. Good time fishing man. You'll have to come some time.
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Post by: Jeremiah P on January 31, 2011, 08:49:25 PM: Awesome day of gator fishing there :IBCOOL: How deep is it up there? Would love to go but thats a long drive
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Post by: bullcanyon on February 01, 2011, 05:00:17 AM: That spot was 101'. Lots of depressions to drop some bait in. Yes it is a long drive. Worth it though.