CR Sturgeon Report 12-31

[5-Cents]

What a great way to end the year. I wanted to upload pictures but it is not working for me... graemlins/eek13.gif

Oh ya back to the report. Got out on the water just after day light with Cracker Joe. 15 min in I get a nice fat 44" fish. After a nice fight I put him back in the water to fight another day. :grin: Crakcer Joe managed a 46.5" fattie that he kept. Each of us had over 20 fish to the boat, many of the shakers were over 36". :dance: We also missed about 100 other strikes. I am sure they were all dinks graemlins/1zhelp.gif The fishing was good all the way through the incoming.

We went through all of our bait by the end of the day. Got a nice pic of two bald eagles that decided to land in a tree and watch us fish for while too.

We fished below Kelly Point in about 61 feet of water. Smelt and sand shrimp were the main meal ticket. The W is pumping mud, sticks, logs, logs with root balls as well as many other nasty items. If you are running the W with a prop take it easy. If you anchor below watch out for the floating parade. I DO think that mud makes the fishing much, much better!

I did notice a LOT of diving birds picking off little silvery fish (smelt?) on about every dive. They were too far away to see what they were for sure. A LOT of seagulls were also working the area. There were also several large, silver sided fish jumping/rolling from time to time. I wonder what they are????

I might be able to get back out there tomorrow.

It was a great year for me and I hope it was for you too! Here is to an even better 2003! :dance:

:cheers:

[fish-on]

the fish ya saw jumping and rolling, could they be early springers???
and the small fish ya saw the birds picking were probably smelt

[5-Cents]

I dont know what those rolling fish were. They were very nice looking... If the sturgeon fishing slowed during the tide we were going to do a little trolling to find out, but the bite continued. There were enough rolling, one about every 10 to 15 min, to make a try worth while.

[fish-on]

i think I see springers in the river , they could be early this year especially with the 5 yr olds comming home this year :smile: :smile:

[fishing is life]

way to go 5 cents. i see you have had some good fishin lately. hope you like sturgeon meat. happy new year.

[Bobby Ray]

Yes, I would say that's a great way to end the year, good for you.

I still haven't caught my keeper yet but I'm working on it.

Happy new year :cheers:

Bobby