The Big Fog Bowl
October 7, 2021
What an incredible start to the day with this morning’s massive fog bank! Visibility was zero as we headed out to fish and GPS was how we made it possible. Between watching for anything ahead and the Lowrance unit, we eventually made our way safely to where we would begin.
Costa and Luc had never caught a sturgeon before so I decided that we would try for them first. I idled around and set up on a few good marks hoping for a quick bite. What we got however was the opposite! I had to relocate three times before the first fish bit, but it was worth the wait. Luc was handed the rod when I set into some heavy weight. Soon after it leaped behind the boat and it was giant! He would be battling this fish for a while!
Probably close to ten minutes had passed and Luc was still fighting his fish when it decided to jump a second time. It never really fought like I had expected with long runs but the sheer power of the fish had Luc struggling to bring it up. It just wanted to remain on the bottom! This went on for about another 5 minutes but eventually he was able to reel it up to the surface and I netted his catch. It was definitely going to be a two person job for the pics!
Costa gave Luc a hand holding the dinosaur and between the two of them I was able to get some great shots before the release. This was a great way to begin the day, but now I wanted more!
The next fish hit not too long after and Costa was up this time. Unfortunately it was not in the same class as the previous one and he was able to bring it in, in under 5 minutes. It was still a nice fish and worthy of several pics being his first ever sturgeon and we were definitely going to get more.
The morning fog didn’t seem to be going anywhere as we continued to fish and despite the visibility, we were catching pretty good. Several other quality ones were landed while we waited patiently for it to lift. It took until almost noon before we started to see anything and the sunshine was finally starting to show. Within 30 minutes, it was a whole different day!
With the clear skies now I was finally able to move around safely and realized that we had been fishing around a few other boats as well. Fortunately they were doing the same thing and not moving all around making it more dangerous in the dense fog!
Our afternoon saw a bunch more fish landed including a couple of new species for Costa and Luc. They had added sheephead or drum to their list of fish species and happy to have checked them off now. As well there were also a few quality sturgeon brought to net throughout the afternoon too. It turned out to be a beautiful day once the fog actually lifted and felt more like summer than fall by the time we were done.
Overall today was a great day with loads of fish caught and a couple of new species for Luc & Costa. I don’t think they had any idea of what was going to happen this morning as we headed out to fish. I know they had no clue where we were going with the thick fog we were in! In the end it all worked out as they battled the largest fish of their lives, several times over. Let’s just hope that the conditions remain the same for a little longer and that I can repeat this over & over again!
