Willamette River Monsters

[craiggamesh]

The other day, a kayak fishing friend of mine convinced me that a trip to George Roger's Park on the Willamette River for some sturgeon fishing was a far better idea than my original plan of planter trout fishing in a local reservoir. I am glad I listened. I had my best sturgeon day ever catching seven sturgeon (5 were keeper-sized and two were shakers) in about 3 hours. Too bad it wasn't keeper season. Although, that would not have mattered much my friend since he had found the over-sized sturgeon hole. I think he caught 5 over-sized, a keeper-sized and a shaker. Here are a couple photos of one of his biggest fish pulled from a video:





It was between 5 and 6 feet long.

Here is another big one of his.



Me in the Sabalo with a keeper sized fish.


Unfortunately, he didn't have a camera to take photos of my biggest one . I didn't take it out of the water since the bigger fish can be injured by doing so. Therefore, I wasn't able to pull a picture from my GoPro video camera like for the one above.

I have said it before, but I love this Sabalo as a fishing platform.

[PiratePete]

They are monster fish Craig.

Thanks for the report & pics .

[craiggamesh]

Thanks Pete. They are a blast to catch. He caught a 7 footer a few weeks ago. I wish I could get one at least in the 5 foot range. I have never caught anything that big before. I figure the only way to do it is to keep wetting a line.

[goanywhere]

Just increases my impatience to get going with my Sobalo build. You're demonstrating everything I want to see in a nice fishing yak!

[craiggamesh]

Just increases my impatience to get going with my Sobalo build. You're demonstrating everything I want to see in a nice fishing yak!

I put it through its paces this last weekend in some very rough ocean conditions. She handled it just fine. I'll post up another out and about report.