Pre-meet up sturgeon

The Nothing and I headed out to the Willy before the meet up yesterday for some sturgeon. We were on the water by 2 and after a short paddle we were anchoring up at his spot. There were plenty of people plunking from the shore and a handful of boats in the area when we got there, but they all left after a couple of hours. Seems we got there right before high tide and so everyone left once the tide started going out. I ended up landing my first two sturgeon ever so I had a great time. They were both on the short side with the biggest of the two coming in at 31" fork length. I definitely should have worn some waders instead of bare feet and dive booties! It is most certainly that time of year again!    Isaac was testing out his new... umm... compact fishing rod? I guess I can't remember what he called it, but it looks to have a lot of promise, especially for jigging off the coast for rockfish. Thanks again to Isaac for showing me the ropes and putting me into some fish!

Ugly and fun.  Dino's I mean.  And that new compact rod thingy has some potential.

Cool! I plan to get into sturgeon fishing this Fall/Winter.

Thanks for the shots of the undersized fish. They helped me finally conclude that the sturgeon I caught several years ago in a Grays Harbor trib was a Green Sturgeon. It was almost exactly 42" long (nose to tip of tail fins, old method of measuring), snakier looking than those, and a greenish-bronze color. Had a different look to it than those juvenile Whites in the pics.

That was back when you could still keep a Green. I kept it, ate a fresh piece, and smoked the rest. Was ono-riffic!

That was the only one I ever caught! And it was by accident, since I wasn't even fishing for sturgeon at the time!

Greens have a stripe on the belly too...


I had a pretty rough day on the water, but had fun once I gave up fighting my anchor.  Was fun to see Yaknitup catch his first sturgeon just a few feed away from me.  He handled it well!

No longer a sturgeon virgin! Nice one Yakky.

Z