Double Digit Day

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After Monday’s miserable wet outing with Rahe, Enzo & Rich, it was nice to finally stay dry today! Although we caught plenty of smallies that trip, nobody wanted to pose for any pics. Totally understandable, based on those conditions too!

Alex, John & Sal were in the boat today and in search of the elusive sturgeon. In the past they had seen some true giants and were looking to see a few more of them again. Hopefully the fish would cooperate!

We began shortly after 7:30 due to the cold morning and headed out in a NW wind. Although it wasn’t big, it was still a little choppy for the run. Once I arrived, the fish started marking and I was sure we were going to have another great day!

Surprisingly, it took longer than I expected for the first bite and it was even after our first move. The winds were turning the boat sideways and making the bites harder to detect with all the rocking from the waves. It wasn’t until they subsided that we began to hook up!

Alex was first at bat and did battle with a decent fish that put up a great fight. No jumps, but plenty of good hard runs! He had been low man on the sticks last year and only managed to land a small fish, while the others caught larger ones. Not this year!

Next up was John and when I set into the fish, I knew it was big! He was in for a tough fight with some serious long runs. The first one took him out almost 150 feet before turning. This was a strong fish and he was going to be on it for quite a while! After a good ten minutes it finally looked like he was starting to gain and a few minutes later, I had it in the net. This was a really long sturgeon and it definitely had some weight! He sat for all the pics before returning the beast back to where it belonged!

Sal was new to this but was about to get a crash course on what not to do when I passed him his first bent rod. Before I could even remove the drift sock, he had the line under it and almost lost the fish too! Getting yelled at was all part of the game and he was well informed long before by everyone! Who doesn’t love a little chaos while fighting a big fish! I eventually untangled the mess and he brought in the smallest fish of the day. Seeing as how it was his first ever sturgeon, the guys took a few pics for him before being released.

We had done a full rotation now and were finally getting bit more often. I was sure it would continue and remained in the same area, expecting many more fish. These sturgeon didn’t disappoint us either as plenty of others were fought throughout the day. Everyone battled many more fish and several rotations occurred again. It wasn’t until we neared the end that the fishing actually began to slow down. A few more decent ones were landed before we called it quits on this DDD!

Today was definitely a lot better than their last years outing, with many more fish being caught. Everyone had plenty of shots at good fish but it was once again John that landed the biggest fish of their trip. Either way, these three guys were all happy campers when it was all said and done. I only hope that the remaining days of the sturgeon season are equally as good!