Dino's after the 1st

Is anybody making plans to chase sturgeon after the first of the year?  I'd like to try for at least one keeper before the season closes.

I sure wouldn't mind meeting up with a few of you for a couple days of fishing sometime in January.

Can you catch me up on what the regs are for 2013? One fish per year, but is it open all year?

General Regulations:  Columbia River

Sturgeon 1 per day, 2 per year.

• Closed to retention of green sturgeon.
• See page 21 for tag return information.
• 38 inch minimum and 54 inch maximum fork length from river mouth
upstream to The Dalles Dam except the minimum length downstream
of Wauna power lines is 41 inch fork length effective May 1.
• 43 inch minimum and 54 inch maximum fork length from The Dalles
Dam upstream to the Oregon-Washington border
• All oversized, undersized, and unwanted legal size white sturgeon
must be immediately released unharmed into the water.
• Oversize sturgeon cannot be removed totally or in part from the water.
• Only one single-point, barbless hook may be used for sturgeon.
• Catch and release of sturgeon may continue after taking the daily or
annual limit or when quota is reached.

Note: Sturgeon fisheries are managed on a quota basis. Anglers should check the status of regulations prior to fishing.

Catch and Release: Open all year, except as noted under Special Regulations.


Special Regulations
3. I-5 Bridge upstream to Bonneville Dam
• Angling for sturgeon is prohibited from May 1 through Aug. 31 from Bonneville Dam
downstream approximately nine miles to a line crossing the Columbia River from
Navigation Marker 82 on the Oregon shore westerly to a boundary marker on the
Washington shore upstream of Fir Point.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/fishing/reg_changes/columbia.asp

There isn't any extra reg changes as far as Sturgeon are concerned at the moment. 

I think I'm going to wait until later in the year or just stay local if I do fish for them.

I'll wait to decide till I have regs in hand and can tease out whats open, when and where.  Open or not the Columbia will suck till the water warms in the spring, at least compared to the Willamette.  Surgeon fishing has been really good in the Willy lately.  C&Rd a day last week and had a bunch of action and some real nice sized fish too.