First Sturgeon!

What a beautiful fish.  Please give us more details when you have time.  What kind of rod and reel...# test?  What was the take like.  Did you pull up the anchor immediately.  How long did it take to land.  Did it pull you around very far.
Thanks and congratulations

Congrats on the nice Dino and thanks for the picture trinkfish.

Congrats, how long did it take to bring it in the boat?

Sweet catch bro.

Jedmo

Congrats!!! Thats awesome……Im still waiting for my first keeper dino!

Nice fish bro!

Have to love popping that cherry!!

Trinkfish, You and ChuckE were highliners Sunday. Most of the boats we saw at the Black Point launch  blanked in the bay. Congratulations Again

Nice thick dino - Big congrats on that beauty!

Can't wait to land my first sturgeon on a yak!

Hell yeah!!

very nice looking catch..

Nice prehistoric! Can you use those big scale plates as conchos on a belt? Antioch has a Western store(?) for cowboy boots that may be able to hook you up?

I Zod Out

Talke to Blake this week. He and his buddy just got kayaks from me a few moths ago. Then he sends me a photo of both he and his buddy with giant Dino's across their laps on their very first try. If they weren't hooked before their defiantly hooked now.

Blake give us the full story!

More details: Me and my buddy headed out from modesto about 4:30am stopped at a bait shop on the way and picked up both frozen mud shrimp and live ghost shrimp.  We arrived at China camp village and realized they don't open the gates until 8. We launched around 8:20 and the goal was to make it to the pump house. We were clueless being our first time on SPB and first time sturgeon fishing plus it was foggy. Lets just say after almost 2 hours of paddling against the current we ended up about a quarter mile away. But since I marked fish on the finder and some seemed huge! we decided to anchor and start fishing.  The first fish was landed about 10:45, a 24 inch striper on a mud shrimp. The second fish was a 38 inch sturgeon my buddy hooked around 11:30(picture attached). I decided to roam and mark some more fish. at about 12:30 my pole showed a soft hit and then the line started running. Im guessing over 100 feet was taken. I pulled anchor and started the battle, after probably another 100 feet of line it decided to come back to the yak. Thank god for an avet reel which I was able to keep the line tight. It passed by me and i was almost dumped (turned me in almost a complete 180). The battle seemed to go by very fast but my buddy believes it was over 30 minutes. The hardest part was trying to pull it on to the yak(my guess would be it weighed 70-80lbs) Took pictures and a video then sent it free. Figured i would give my first sturgeon back to the fish gods, plus we didn't want to head in quite yet......I caught a 20 inch sturgeon after that and then the trek home was on.