Landing a sturgeon.

How are you adapting to the new sturgeon rules? Now that we can't use a snare and have to use barbless hooks, what do you plan to use to avoid loosing any at the kayak? I am thinking some kind of lip gripper, maybe a locking one. Use that to hold onto it while you put a rope thru its gills. I wonder though if I would have a tiger by the tail if it made a run for it before I could whack it or cut its gills.

Also, how do you measure these big fish. If you get one close to the maximum, you have to be sure before you harm it. Seems like you would need help or a very cooperative sturgeon to accurately measure a fish that long.

that definitely seems like somethign that you would have to do from the shore after you got a handle on it just to make sure. that would be a huge bummer to have DFG come and take all your gear away from you because you were off by a couple of inches and they pop you for poaching ya know...

Me-- grab them in the mouth, then measure. If the fish is close then let it go...

I guess with all of that and having to pay extra for the sturgeon chance to get your gear confiscated, I will not be fishing for them.
Let the dinosaurs live.

Catch and release!

Though I have to admit, sturgeon fishing is a lot like watching your exterior paint job dry

I'd have to agree with you on that one. Although my best friend did catch three on Wednesday off the banks, two were within the slot too... Some people just get lucky man! Even while watching paint dry hahaha

Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2

Catch and release!

Though I have to admit, sturgeon fishing is a lot like watching your exterior paint job dry

Sturgeon fishing maybe, but sturgeon catching is a high adrenalin sport! 

Catch and release!

Though I have to admit, sturgeon fishing is a lot like watching your exterior paint job dry

Sturgeon fishing maybe, but sturgeon catching is a high adrenalin sport! 

And that's why we pour over tide charts, hope for rain, buy expensive bait, and sit in the cold day after day!

Yeah It's like watching paint dry until "tap, tap" and you are good enough to set it and Mr. S figures out he's been hooked. Then there is no bigger rush especially when he comes straight up out of the water just so pissed off shaking and screaming........but until then its pretty boring..........Damn I am glad the season is close
 The meat is good so I may keep one a year but I agree with SteveS They are so special. let 'em go

out here in suisun bay , we don't wait for rain. the fishing is red hot during the fall and spring . big tides fish shallow , small tides fish deep. 10 fish days (shakers included) aint a fantasy

out here in suisun bay , we don't wait for rain. the fishing is red hot during the fall and spring . big tides fish shallow , small tides fish deep. 10 fish days (shakers included) aint a fantasy

Where do you launch and fish?

Mcavoys or pittsburg. Fish from pittsburg deep water all the way into grizzly

Mcavoys or pittsburg. Fish from pittsburg deep water all the way into grizzly

What's the paddle like across to grizzly?  How far is it?