Thread: My BIGGEST fish EVER

Yep. What a challenge landing it. Half in the net and husband holding onto tail. Bent the net. Lol. They have a LOT of power in those tails.. The smaller one I caught slapped the crap out of his ankles before he could get out of the way. The length was the biggest problem.

Awesome as all get out, I seen a guy grill a sturgeon, he was on the television they were farm raised, do y'all eat the river ones, or just catch and let go.

be a great big ole sammich

Congrats on the catch. Will be hard to beat for sure. Dang stupid phone. A picture would have been nice. But your story was very descriptive and humorous also.

From now on camera will in tackle bag. The lake sturgeon and pallid sturgeon are endangered so they have to be released. You can keep,the small shovel nose sturgeon. As long as they are 30" or under. Anything over has to be released. They are so slim built that there isn't much meat on them. We kept a couple but husband said they weren't worth cleaning. Hard to clean also. So they all get turned loose. Probably never happen again but I will be ready.

I had smoked shovel nose one time and it was very good, but I have no clue how it was cleaned or any other details, but it was good!