STURGEON ANYONE ?

[Nasty Shoe]

So this could possibly be our Loch Ness Monster!!!

For those who don't know the Leamington area, this town is part of the municipality. It has a small commercial fishery for pickerel and perch.

Subject: Six and a half hours, and 4 dozen beers later . . .





For those who don't know-- Wheatley is about 30 miles from Harrow on Lake Erie.
NO COMPUTER TRICK PHOTO HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS ONTARIO!!!!!!!!!
FYI: This Sturgeon is Still alive , just worn out from the fight.
They turned him loose after the photo.































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[Formulized94]

Big fish.

[donho]

Amazing to see freshwater fish that are larger then most saltwater species!!!

[jim sciortino]

Well, I did recently tear an ACL.


Oh........sTurgeon.

[donho]

I just saw a special on NatGeo about Arapaima in Thailand

That is a big freshwater fish (not as big as that sturgeon, but still crazy)
The guide does day trips for around 300 USD a day.

[latedog]

WHOA.. im surprised no one has brought out the ... "were gonna need a bigger boat" ... line

[John Wilson]

That's a big'n!!

I just saw a special on NatGeo about Arapaima in Thailand

That is a big freshwater fish (not as big as that sturgeon, but still crazy)
The guide does day trips for around 300 USD a day.

Saw a show where one of these (arapaima) just parked it on the bottom of the lake. The guide had to swim out following the line and gave him a nudge.

[DRCE]

Thats a bad dude, had to some kind of fight.

[rich]

we have lots of stugeon here can't wait till it gets warm 150lb test and hold on!

[donho]

That's a big'n!!



Saw a show where one of these (arapaima) just parked it on the bottom of the lake. The guide had to swim out following the line and gave him a nudge.


http://www.fishing-thailand.org/arapaima_fishing.html

I spoke to Gillham and he said they can do single day trips.
1.5 hours from Bangkok.
Do you see the size of the Snakeheads!!!

[nitrofish59]

So this could possibly be our Loch Ness Monster!!!

For those who don't know the Leamington area, this town is part of the municipality. It has a small commercial fishery for pickerel and perch.

Subject: Six and a half hours, and 4 dozen beers later . . .






For those who don't know-- Wheatley is about 30 miles from Harrow on Lake Erie.


NO COMPUTER TRICK PHOTO HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!


THIS IS ONTARIO!!!!!!!!!


FYI: This Sturgeon is Still alive , just worn out from the fight.


They turned him loose after the photo.
































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Here we go again................................
Sorry guys, not to be the bearrer of bad news but,,,, This is not from Lake Erie.. the charter boat capitan name is Len Ames and he is from B.C. Canada... This fish was hooked and released on the Fraser River about 60 miles east of Vancouver . I was on the river that day and saw this fish myself...... I have seen this photo on alot of differant website and every time it a differant story behind the photo...

Here's some more photo's of fish around the same size hooked and released on the Fraser River in B.C. about 1/2 a mile from where Len hooked his behemoth...
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http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr218/Nitrofish59/trophysturgeon020-1.jpg

The region 2 biologists confrimed that from these 2 photo's that their is a 99% chance that these 2 pictures are the same fish...
Pictures where taken 2 years apart.... Both fish were measured and were both just over 10 1/2 feet long and a girth of over 60 inches with est. weight of over 600 LBS and in exxcess of 1 hundred years old. Nice try of the guy tring to drum up charter business... If you want to hook what we call river dino's try planning a trip to B.C... P.M. me if any of you guys are planning a trip north and want to try this action, I can forward you the names and phone numbers of the guides who fish for these guys...
And buy the way this been a catch and release fishery for the last 10 years or so... so their is a very good chance you could hook into 1 of these puppy's..... My biggest fish hooked and released was back in 1998, just under 10' and 3 hours on the rod to before it was beached and released

[clevelandpwr]

Unbeliveable that thing is huge!

[nitrous mike]

nice fish

[speedjohnston]

I had the same thing sent to me in an e-mail saying it was in ottawa... took me about 5 min to find the pic showing it in the Fraser river 3 years ago or so. lol