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Title: A collection of Sturgeon pics from NCKA.org
Post by: mooch on April 04, 2006, 05:08:29 PM
Erik K. with a 53" - 30# Shell Bank Sturgeon

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST PHOTOS - INCLUDE NAME - LOCATION - DATE
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Post by: mooch on April 05, 2006, 02:50:57 PM
Erik K. with a legal sturgeon caught in San Pablo Bay  - 12.10.05
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Post by: mooch on April 05, 2006, 02:56:51 PM
ERic / Eyeatbay with a 40" San Pablo Bay sturgeon - released - 01.15.06
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Post by: mooch on April 05, 2006, 03:00:35 PM
Eric/eyeatbay with a 42" SanPablo Bay sturgeon - released  - 01.29.06
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Post by: mooch on April 05, 2006, 03:18:50 PM
Erik / kzreelrods with a 67 inch Sturgeon from the "triangle"  - 2003
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Post by: mooch on April 05, 2006, 03:42:52 PM
Brent/Pondsurf with a Black Point / Petaluma River Sturgeon on March 3, 2006 -  released

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Post by: mooch on April 05, 2006, 03:56:59 PM
Ben/Guitarzan with a 6ft. + sturgeon from Blackpoint on March 2006 - released -
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Post by: mooch on April 06, 2006, 10:21:24 AM
Josh / Promethean Spark and his first sturgeon - San Pablo Bay - 2005
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Post by: Rock Hopper on April 13, 2006, 02:37:52 PM
Rock Hopper with 59" sturgeon. Caught and released on 1-16-06 from "The Honey Hole".

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Post by: KZ on April 13, 2006, 04:15:07 PM
Fighting and releasing a 61" sturgeon at the Honey Hole 1/7/06.

(http://www.kzreelrods.com/images/Fish_Photos/120706%20Sturgeon3.jpg)

(http://www.kzreelrods.com/images/Fish_Photos/120706%20Sturgeon6.jpg)

(http://www.kzreelrods.com/images/Fish_Photos/120706%20Sturgeon8.jpg)
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Post by: mooch on April 19, 2006, 02:40:05 PM
Adult League Hockey Super Star Chris / cpyak  :beat with his first sturgeon.......followed by a victory drink  :party
April 2005 - San Pablo Bay
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Post by: mooch on April 19, 2006, 03:34:20 PM
Fred / Savage with a keeper dino - San Pablo Bay - 01.08.06
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Post by: Captain Don on July 23, 2006, 12:59:27 PM
WOW! I saw this and just had to sign up! I catch Sturgeon in Michigan in my 16 foot boat and in a kayak has got to be an absolute Riot!! I wanna come try!!!!!!!!!! Where are you located?

I'll show you some of my Sturgeon Pics from Michigan:
(http://www.michiganoutdoorsman.com/photo/albums/userpics/10005/4.jpg)
(http://www.michiganoutdoorsman.com/photo/albums/userpics/10005/CaptainDon52inchera.jpg)
(http://www.michiganoutdoorsman.com/photo/albums/userpics/10005/me%2060%20inch2a.jpg)
(http://www.michiganoutdoorsman.com/photo/albums/userpics/10003/DONSTURGE.jpg)
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Post by: mooch on December 19, 2006, 04:28:52 PM
Mike / Tote with a San Pablo Bay Sturgeon - released - 12.09.06
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Post by: mooch on December 19, 2006, 04:31:35 PM
Erik K  / San Pablo Bay / 12.16.06 / 49.5 inches = 25 Pounds
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Post by: mooch on December 19, 2006, 04:35:31 PM
Joel / San Pablo Bay / 12.16.06 / 47 inches = 22.5 pounds
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Post by: mooch on January 02, 2007, 01:13:53 PM
JTF
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Post by: mooch on March 30, 2007, 03:37:13 PM
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Post by: mooch on March 30, 2007, 03:38:37 PM
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Post by: mooch on March 30, 2007, 03:49:50 PM
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Post by: mooch on May 08, 2007, 09:07:50 AM
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Post by: mooch on January 31, 2008, 08:28:44 PM
Cartamo - that's one hell of a sturgeon  :smt104 :smt045 :jawdrop

Biggest one I've seen since Ben / Guitarzan'z catch = truly amazing!!!
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Post by: dilbeck on February 01, 2008, 06:08:11 AM
Cartamo - that's one hell of a sturgeon  :smt104 :smt045 :jawdrop

Biggest one I've seen since Ben / Guitarzan'z catch = truly amazing!!!

I agree.  Would have loved to read the Fishing Report for that guy.

Michael




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Post by: Hojoman on February 09, 2008, 07:01:34 PM
I thought everyone would enjoy this dino caught from a PB recently in Oregon.

This Sturgeon was caught on the Willamette River just below Oregon City  two weeks ago.  It weighed out at over 1,000 lbs and measured out at 11'1'. It was 56' around the girth  and took over 6 and a half hours, and 4 dozen beers, for the 4 guys taking turns at the reeling it in.
Any Sturgeon OVER about five feet has to be released unharmed and cannot be removed from the water.   
They are brood / breeding stock and probably older than most of us. This one maybe 100 years old.

This Sturgeon is Still alive, just worn out from the fight.  They turned him loose after the photo.

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Post by: HobieSport on February 09, 2008, 07:43:40 PM
Holy Moly Hojoman!  Don't that beat all! :jawdrop :jawdrop :jawdrop
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Post by: mooch on April 19, 2008, 12:09:23 AM
Mahi Mahi @ Montezuma Slough - March 2008

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Post by: mooch on April 19, 2008, 12:31:15 AM
Melissa @ the Oakland Airport - 2008

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Post by: ChuckE on July 03, 2008, 01:21:29 PM
(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=39823&g2_serialNumber=1&g2_GALLERYSID=bcfaf6bf5ff849f33e433585eb759bd9)
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Post by: pao on November 16, 2008, 01:02:27 AM
:jawdrop Wow!  Nice catch!  Did you get measurements ChuckE ? 
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Post by: ChuckE on November 20, 2008, 03:26:33 AM
Wow!  Nice catch!  Did you get measurements ChuckE ? 
Thanks.  64" and over 70 lbs
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Post by: Hojoman on November 20, 2008, 05:42:01 AM
How much more effort did it take to paddle to shore while straddling the kayak like that? I'm thinking that straddling a wider kayak is very difficult, requiring the legs to be under the fish (if you can't load the fish lengthwise) and making it more difficult to get out of the kayak. Amazing picture, just like the big ling you just got a the Bean.
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Post by: Jedmo on November 20, 2008, 10:08:24 PM
Beautiful sturgeon ChuckE. How long did you fight the fish for? Could you please
share the tackle you used?

Thanks,
Jedmo
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Post by: ChuckE on November 20, 2008, 10:57:04 PM
Beautiful sturgeon ChuckE. How long did you fight the fish for? Could you please
share the tackle you used?

Thanks,
Jedmo
Believe-it-or-not... the fight lasted 15 minutes max.  It's almost always faster from a kayak than a bigger boat.

I was using the standard "Erik Kunz" sturgeon rig (see link below) baited with ghost and grass shrimp.

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?page=14
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Post by: Jedmo on November 21, 2008, 07:37:23 AM
Thanks ChuckE, I appreciate the help and info.

Jed
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Post by: SteveS doesn't kayak anymore on January 08, 2009, 11:09:46 AM
New Year sturgie- 1/2/09  SP bay china camp
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Post by: Northern Boy on January 26, 2009, 04:57:22 PM
First legal sturgeon, ever. 60 inches. January 23rd 2009 at the Oakland Airport. 5 feet of water. Thanks to Hojoman for the contrast enhancement of the original picture.

Link to the story; http://addictedtofishing.blogspot.com/ (http://addictedtofishing.blogspot.com/)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e374/NB32/PhilNorthernBoyatOaklandAirportJanu.jpg)

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Post by: Jedmo on January 26, 2009, 05:26:38 PM
My very first sturgeon on the kayak at OAP 1-19-09. The fish was 59 1\2" long
and weighed 44 1\2lbs. At least that is what the scale said.

Jedmo
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Post by: ravensblack on January 26, 2009, 06:49:55 PM
1-18-09 OAP 2 miles off the north end of the airport. Pumped our own shrimp at Tomales bay and fishin-jay brought the grass. 2 sturgeon/1 day First was 4 foot green sturgeon released 2nd a 59.5 inch white that I kept
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Post by: FindThatFish on January 26, 2009, 09:51:03 PM
OAP 1/11/2009.
Freddie, Melissa and Andy
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Post by: FisHunter on January 28, 2009, 12:48:46 PM
pic1~ EKunz at ChinaCamp / shell bank

pic2~ Me and my 47"ChinaCamp/ HailMary'd for AOTY '08

pic3~ HOLY T./Patrick with his 62" from OakAirPort
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Post by: ChuckE on January 29, 2009, 06:44:02 PM
A very cool sunset pic of HT with his dino

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16058.0;attach=38829;image)

SCAllen's cherry busting dino

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16140.0;attach=39139;image)

Tailwalk and ChuckE with their twin dinos

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16035.0;attach=38779;image)

ChuckE's OAP dino

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16035.0;attach=38791;image)

Tailwalk's first kayak dino and 2nd time trying

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16035.0;attach=38793;image)

SurfFisher's first kayak dino

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16219.0;attach=39350;image)

Mako1's China Camp dino

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16217.0;attach=39356;image)

A nice pic of Eldorado with his dino

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16124.0;attach=39034;image)

Ariel Sea's caught and released dino

(http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16174.0;attach=39249;image)

Freddie and his girl Melissa with their dinos on the same day

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/3192503324_009532d937.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/3192501588_2848e19315.jpg?v=0)
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Post by: piski on February 04, 2009, 01:34:17 AM
01-09-09 Oakland Airport (solo)
First ever Sturgeon  47.5" w/$50 DFG Reward Tag
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Post by: FisHunter on February 24, 2009, 10:41:52 AM
Hook,measure,let suckle until feeling better, then release! ChinaCamp 47" 12/08
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Post by: fishshim on March 27, 2009, 02:33:45 AM
I re-edited this video from last year of ChuckE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqpaQh8g7g&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqpaQh8g7g&feature=channel_page)
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Post by: ravensblack on March 27, 2009, 06:22:53 AM
Sweet vid. Thanks Fishim
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Post by: fishshim on March 27, 2009, 04:51:34 PM
Sweet vid. Thanks Fishim
I've been in computer hell the last week and wanted to do something other than fix software issues. Besides who needs sleep! :smt044
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Post by: Hojoman on March 27, 2009, 08:50:00 PM
Very nice video, Mark. Cool music. I'm surprised it didn't get zapped by YouTube.
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Post by: piski on March 28, 2009, 05:02:23 AM
Quote from: Hojoman
Very nice video, Mark. Cool music. I'm surprised it didn't get zapped by YouTube.

I think they heard you; it's gone...
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Post by: fishshim on March 28, 2009, 02:43:27 PM
Quote from: Hojoman
Very nice video, Mark. Cool music. I'm surprised it didn't get zapped by YouTube.

I think they heard you; it's gone...

Oh well! That was a song from the "Curious George" movie soundtrack my kid has. I guess I have to be a composer too.
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Post by: fishshim on March 28, 2009, 08:24:39 PM
It's Back on now!  ??? I don't get it.
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Post by: JK on August 13, 2009, 09:58:31 AM
Although not from a yak this is my PB ... fish of the week in SF Examiner Nov. 1982.  Caught under the Dumbarton Bridge on a ghost shrimp.  5'11" estimated 110-110 lbs.  - the fish calculators online call it 127 lbs. - 3 1/2 hour fight.  This was shortly after my dad passed away and his best friend took me out - I like to think my pops had a hand in this one.

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Post by: ZeeHokkaido on August 28, 2009, 10:34:03 AM
My personal best dino @ roughly 7'. Oversize so CNR'd.

Z

(http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/gallery/62_07_06_09_3_14_17.jpeg)
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Post by: bwodun on January 11, 2010, 11:48:43 PM
my first sturgeon from china camp jan. 10, 2010, 50.5 in and roughly 41 # on the boga 
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Post by: MOJO on January 14, 2010, 05:31:21 AM
Nice fish!  Now that looks FUN.
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Post by: baitNbeer on February 02, 2010, 05:44:39 PM
captain morgan pose

wish this spot was within yakin distance , easy anchoring in soft bottom @ 19 feet , current aint too too swift and dinos grazing through the mud  for clams like cows on a grass feild

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Post by: ravensblack on February 02, 2010, 06:42:29 PM
Jan 16 2010 CC on mud. 5th kayak sturgeon
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Post by: Jeffrm20 on February 02, 2010, 07:10:17 PM
captain morgan pose

wish this spot was within yakin distance , easy anchoring in soft bottom @ 19 feet , current aint too too swift and dinos grazing through the mud  for clams like cows on a grass feild



You could always mothership a yak out there!
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Post by: polepole on April 16, 2010, 11:45:33 AM
Caught this week by NWKA Scott on the Columbia.  Holy $%#%!!!!

-Allen

(http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4546.0;attach=5349;image)
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Post by: ravensblack on April 16, 2010, 02:39:31 PM
Did the fish make it OK? Thats huge!
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Post by: bwodun on April 16, 2010, 04:16:43 PM
DAMN, thats a biggun', any idea what the measurements would have been, cameron
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Post by: mooch on April 16, 2010, 04:26:14 PM
That's a BIG BOY! Reminds me of the one Ben / Guitarzan caught and released at Black Point a while back.
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Post by: polepole on April 16, 2010, 07:22:05 PM
Did the fish make it OK? Thats huge!

See the report here ... http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,4546.0.html

-Allen
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Post by: polepole on May 04, 2010, 09:51:42 AM
There were actually 2 oversized caught that day.  Here's a pic of the other one.

-Allen

(http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4551.0;attach=5355;image)
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Post by: Wldrnshntr on January 25, 2011, 01:45:55 PM
1-15-2011 China Camp Wilderneshunter, Guitarzan
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Post by: Jedmo on February 01, 2011, 04:18:36 PM
Here's from last year of March fishing with Fishin-Jay.

Jedmo
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Post by: fishnut1 on January 21, 2012, 07:13:43 PM
As large as legality will allow, 54" Puget Sound, Wa. May 2011
NWKA
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Post by: ravensblack on January 21, 2012, 07:35:32 PM
Johns 2011 AOTY sturgeon
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Post by: Robert209 on April 05, 2014, 12:06:29 PM
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/06/najeza4a.jpg) Rio Vista  area, prospect slough 50in on grass shrimp
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Post by: Dale L on April 05, 2014, 01:39:13 PM
Great looking fish, make sure to put that in the Reports section too.
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Post by: bwodun on April 20, 2016, 01:17:25 PM
releasing an oversize the other week
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Post by: CptSloppywood on April 20, 2016, 06:02:00 PM
Nice Sturgy!!! :smt001
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Post by: JBryant on November 30, 2016, 02:41:12 PM
Great catches! Spent my first day out fishing for Sturgeon this past Sunday with no luck, but itching to get back out there and try again!!
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Post by: Kayakfish7 on March 13, 2017, 11:31:33 PM
I found this oversized sturgeon washed up half eaten on stincin Beach sanfransico area so strange was showing in low tide I wonder if a great white took a bite buy why leave the rest the body still had blood coming out and eyes intact
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Post by: Kayakfish7 on March 13, 2017, 11:32:19 PM
Another pic
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Post by: Eddie on March 14, 2017, 07:29:29 AM
Wow, they are in the ocean, do they commute from oregon?  Always wondered.
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Post by: Kayakfish7 on March 14, 2017, 09:13:36 AM
I was surprised my self I'm not sure but something ate through his tail bone must have been a big seven Gill or juvinal great white sad this sturgeon made it 25 years or more to be killed by who knows what
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Post by: DeltaYakR on March 14, 2017, 01:52:30 PM
Wow, they are in the ocean, do they commute from oregon?  Always wondered.

Quite a few commute from here to the Columbia river. A tagged Dino from SPB turned up 5yrs later in the Columbia river.
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Post by: DeltaYakR on March 14, 2017, 01:57:12 PM
I was surprised my self I'm not sure but something ate through his tail bone must have been a big seven Gill or juvinal great white sad this sturgeon made it 25 years or more to be killed by who knows what

Sea lions love to eat Dino's ! They tend to grab the tail and thrash them around to bleed out. Saw quite a few keeper size get thrashed about and one at around 6ft.
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Post by: Fish Master1 on March 14, 2017, 02:23:53 PM
My first Dino and first time targeting them.My guide was Baitnbeer.  :smt001. Caught Sunday 3-12 early morning on the Delta by Pittsburge.
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Post by: Midwest on March 14, 2017, 02:30:25 PM
Got one two weeks ago, Three years in the making for one :)
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Post by: Fish Master1 on March 16, 2017, 12:59:06 PM
Hell yeah! Nice one! What area?
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Post by: Der_Huntsman on March 16, 2017, 02:27:49 PM
Man....I don't have any pics, but I went sturgeon fishing once on a buddy's boat in the carquinez straight about 10 years ago. 4 of us caught 5 sturgeon...I caught 2. I feel spoiled because ou guys work so hard for them  :smt009
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Post by: fishtacoz88 on March 16, 2017, 08:54:50 PM
Don't feel spoiled that was tens years ago.... things have changed. This year has been absolutely killer for sturgeon fishing according to some people maybe the best in several years. Many people have been catching and releasing 60" plus monsters on the daily this year. May not be from a Kayak, but this year has been great for a majority of people sturgeon fishing. I think you are missing out MF
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Post by: Midwest on March 17, 2017, 10:54:11 AM
Hell yeah! Nice one! What area?
thx ! U too , Got him on the Napa.
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Post by: JamesM on April 13, 2017, 03:54:48 PM
2/18/17, 57" 62#
Title: 43" Sturgeon out of Napa
Post by: ColtonCrum on February 20, 2018, 04:48:16 PM
43" Sturgeon out of Napa, caught January 6th on our Klamath