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Post by jug on Sept 22, 2009 8:10:53 GMT -6
This is a darn interesting picture and story even if you aren't into fishing, but please show it to anyone you know that likes to fish. > > This sturgeon is still alive, just worn out from the fight. They turned him loose after the photo. > > This Sturgeon was caught on the Red River just below locks at lockport Manitoba 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. > Attachments:
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 22, 2009 9:57:18 GMT -6
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Post by ibugly on Sept 22, 2009 10:13:31 GMT -6
The aquarium in Chattanooga has some pictures of monster size Sturgeon that existed before TVA built the lakes. That is one big fish.
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Post by jug on Sept 22, 2009 10:23:31 GMT -6
I can imagine IB. I've seen catfish at South Holston Lake near Bristol that would swallow a man and still have room for more.
Back in my younger days I could catch 60lbers in the Nolichucky.
I never was one to eat that big a cat fish and after we got some pics let them go. That big are much too fat.
I do love the blue channel cats in the Cumberland and the TN. YUMMY!!
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Post by caretaker on Sept 22, 2009 10:23:45 GMT -6
Yep, Dad tells story`s of how he and his brothers use to catch sturgeon in Norris. I guess the dams and lack of free flowing water were the couse o their demise in this area.
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Post by jug on Sept 22, 2009 10:27:27 GMT -6
This particular sturgeon is a breeder fish. Over 5' and they have to be returned to the water. I suspect they were too fished out here.
And TN got into the game fish. So there is the chance the Sturgeon were taken to keep them from eating the young fry of the game fish.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 22, 2009 10:33:57 GMT -6
They say there's Cat's that big in Norris especially at the dam. Intimidates the divers. Sturgeon were river fish for the most part. Yea Dave my dad says they caught them up on the Holston and French Broad too before the dams. Well I gotta go drive to Bearden fer a spell. Ya'll have fun.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 22, 2009 20:37:32 GMT -6
They say the same thing about the divers that have to go down behind the dam, at Kentucky Lake. I have seen catfish when I was 10 that was as tall and about as big as I was, that came out of the Mississippi river at or around Cauruthersville Missouri, where I lived at at the time. The man who lived next door was a fisherman for his living, and he sold the fish, like it was said about fat in that big of fish, it would have a heavy, thick fat streak running down its back, and all around its belly.
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Post by caretaker on Sept 22, 2009 21:12:17 GMT -6
I remember my brother catching a cat up on norris at Black Fox. We were trolling for walleye and he cought a big cat. We tied it to the boat with a rope through its mouth becouse it bent the stringer. The dang thing kept pulling and turning the boat even with the motor running while we were trolling. we would troll for a ways then that cat would turn or pull the boat.
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Post by ibugly on Sept 22, 2009 21:19:39 GMT -6
Speaking of Black Fox you know Lay's bridge is out don't you? Or maybe you was with Pappy when he went up there a while back. I remember him telling me.
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Post by jug on Sept 23, 2009 7:26:24 GMT -6
Those cats can be monsters. To my taste the fat on those big cats taste a whole lot like MUD!!
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 23, 2009 11:24:56 GMT -6
I like my catfish as fiddlers size, or steak cut, I will eat fillets but I perfer mine at around 3 pounds or less out of my pond. The channel cats in our pond start getting a fatty streak in the back after 3 pounds. Any thing over thst size I would fillet it!!
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Post by jug on Sept 23, 2009 11:33:36 GMT -6
Yep that's good eating size Randy.
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