4/26/2016
A bit after 2:00 this afternoon I took Emilee and Dakota down to the Missouri river in hopes of hooking into some pan-sized catfish while we had a break between thunderstorms. Instead we found ourselves casting our nightcrawlers into the middle of a bunch of sturgeon.
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| Sturgeon |
Most of the sturgeon we caught were in the range of twenty to twenty-eight inches long....Not giants by any means, but most of them put up a decent fight. The smallest was about eighteen inches long with the biggest being about thirty inches long.
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| Another Sturgeon |
The temperature today was in the middle 70's with a mostly overcast sky. The sun did poke through for a few minutes, but it didn't last long.
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| One of several sturgeon caught |
For a while I thought the kids were going to skunk me but I finally found my way into the action. Emilee and I each caught 4 and Dakota ended up catching 3.
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| A look at the underside of a sturgeon |
For some reason it seems as though any time we get into a mess of sturgeon, the catfish are nowhere to be found.
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| A closeup of a sturgeon's mouth and underbelly |
Although we didn't catch any catfish, we had a blast reeling in a total of eleven sturgeon in a matter of about an hour and a half.
Note: Every fish we caught was released back into the water unharmed.
- Any day in the outdoors is a good day
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