Sturgeon

[pointer 543]

The Russian Diamondback is a nice fish. The photo is blurry but they are quite stunning up close.

 

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[mackem 26,897]

Nice fish.There used to be a guy on here,irish guy,he went to BC and fished for them on the fraser river,he put up a pic of a huge fish several hundred pounds in weight.

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This fish didn't fight very well for its size on a 10ft carp rod and 10lb line but I was pleased to catch it.

ive a couple about that size in my pond interesting fish to watch

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This fish didn't fight very well for its size on a 10ft carp rod and 10lb line but I was pleased to catch it.

ive a couple about that size in my pond interesting fish to watch

They are interesting fish and as a species hunter I would like to catch other types of sturgeon including Beluga hybrids and Sterlet colour variations from even small ponds or lakes. Edited August 31, 2016 by pointer

[gnipper 6,500]

Plenty in the Leeds-Liverpool canal At

Are they any decent size?

[tillylamp 1,830]

this is a big one...caught last week....

The Sturgeon Whisperer hooks 600-lb. ‘dinosaur’ in Fraser River

Nick McCabe, a 19-year-old fishing guide in Lillooet, B.C., hooked the 10-foot, 600-lb. white sturgeon — known for distinct flattened and pinkish nose said to be caused by an injury years ago.

Nick McCabe, 19, was called the Sturgeon Whisperer long before he caught "Pig Nose," a 600-lb. white sturgeon that was reeled in on the Fraser River near Lillooet, B.C., last Monday. (RIVER MONSTER ADVENTURES)

Fishing guide Nick McCabe, 19, caught a 10-foot-long, 600-lb. sturgeon in the Fraser River in Lilloet, BC, last Monday. The river 'dinosaur' was later released. (RIVER MONSTER ADVENTURES)

Nick McCabe, 19, was called the Sturgeon Whisperer long before he caught "Pig Nose," a 600-lb. white sturgeon that was reeled in on the Fraser River near Lillooet, B.C., last Monday. (RIVER MONSTER ADVENTURES)

Fishing guide Nick McCabe, 19, caught a 10-foot-long, 600-lb. sturgeon in the Fraser River in Lilloet, BC, last Monday. The river 'dinosaur' was later released. (RIVER MONSTER ADVENTURES)

By VERITY STEVENSONStaff Reporter

Mon., Aug. 29, 2016

It’s a fish tale with all the elements of legend. A mythic creature — hooked once decades ago, but known only in fishing store chatter until recently — caught by an angler nicknamed the Sturgeon Whisperer.

Nick McCabe, a 19-year-old fishing guide on the Fraser River in Lillooet, B.C., hooked the 10-foot, 600-lb. white sturgeon — known for distinct flattened and pinkish nose said to be caused by an injury years ago — after an uneventful day last Monday.

“We’ve often joked about catching it,” said Jeff Grimolfson, who co-owns River Monster Adventures, the guiding company McCabe works for. “Once Nick realized the fish was Pig Nose, when he got it up close to the boat, they were just floored.”

McCabe had just surfaced the fabled fish that had dodged anglers for 38 years after it was first reported to be caught.

Grimolfson was on the other side of the river as the two-hour battle drew to a close and caught a glimpse of the famed sturgeon. “I could hear a lot of hooting and hollering,” he said.

A video online shows McCabe and his friends excitedly holding the fish, as one of them yells, “Somebody look at this . . . beast!”

He said McCabe, who was in a remote area without cellphone service Monday and could not speak with the Star, was called the Sturgeon Whisperer long before he caught Pig Nose.

“The sturgeon just follow him (McCabe),” said Grimolfson, 38. “Everywhere he goes, he’s landing big fish; he out-fishes everybody every day.”

There are more than 47,000 white sturgeon in the Fraser River, according to Sarah Schreier, executive director of the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society, which established a tagging program to keep track of the species progression. Keeping the fish after catching it became illegal in the early 1990s, Schreier said.

“It is considered a threatened species, however it’s very, very well-managed.”

Grimolfson said his company releases all the sturgeon it catches and participates in the tagging program, outfitting the fish with microchips if they don’t already have them, and recording their measurements and location.

“They really are a dinosaur in the river,” Schreier said, adding that sturgeon have survived two Ice Ages and haven’t changed in 65 million years. They live 200 years, can measure up to 18 feet (six metres) long and because of their position at the top of the river’s food chain, Scheier said they’re a good indication of the ecosystem’s overall health.

“They’re a very special species.”

 

[steve66 3,488]

Well that pisses on jeremy wade lol

What a fish !

[gazjon5 817]

Jeremy wade has caught big sturgeon (around 10ft from memory) from both the Fraser and Colombia rivers.I think the Columbia River (USA) was shown one of his episodes.