Anyone else caught any tagged sturgeon?

Johnson_Bar · 01-14-2002, 06:13 PM

I caught one on 10-15-01 and he was tagged, I turned in the info to the Department of Fish and Game on their website and just got back the info. I found in interesting and thought mabey someone else would enjoy hearing it. The fish was tagged on 7-18-01 in Tounge Point and was caught by me in the Camas area almost 3 months after he was tagged. He traveled 105 river miles in about the same number of days. When tagged he was 37 inches long and when I released him he was 40 inches long. I know it seems like he grew alot fast, but he was really fat and we measured him a couple of times to make sure the length was right. They sent along some other sturgeon facts that I thought were very interesting, they grow alot faster than I had previously thought. And travel alot farther quicker than I thought, not that I am an expert or anything. If anyone else has any info like this I would enjoy hearing. By the way, I never got the info back from them on the silvers I caught with the wires in them at buoy 10

birdhunter · 01-14-2002, 06:36 PM

I've caught two tagged sturgeon. Unfortunately I don't have the info in front of me. One was a keeper on the Yaquina. It had been tagged a few years previous and hadn't moved much. The other was an oversized I caught last spring on the Columbia. The fish was 90-something inches when it was tagged in '91. We caught it at 120' about 6 miles downriver from where it had been tagged. Caught that same fish at the same spot exactly one week later too.

SureSet · 01-14-2002, 08:50 PM

Caught one a year ago in Feb. that was tagged the previous June in Youngs Bay. Went 84 miles and grew an inch and a half if I remember right.

My brother and I were out Sunday and he landed a 41" sub with a tag that I wrote down and sent in last night. We'll see if I got all the info they need and the numbers right. It's gets tough trying to read that little print with all the scum on the wire while the thing is PO'ed.

SureSet