4-10-13

Today it was back to the river. I met client's John and Maureen at the gas station at 5:30 and we were on our way. We launched at Ward's Landing and headed up stream to see if the fish were still where I caught them the other day. We started fishing right where I left off Saturday but the fish were not there so we began working our way back down stream. On our way down we fished all of the likely spots, but just could not get bit! We continued searching and finally ran into some fish that wanted to bite. Maureen was the first to strike and soon we were slipping a 6 pounder into the net! John wasn't far behind with a 5 pounder. We continued working that stretch and caught a couple more shakers and some small keepers that we turned loose. We continued working our way down stream and found another school of fish that wanted to play, and we went to work on them. Pass after pass we caught fish , most of them being keeper sized males with a few shakers mixed in. On the fourth or fifth drift Maureen's rod doubled over and started screaming line off of it. At first it looked like a snag but then the rod started to pump and the line headed for the middle of the river. The fish battled for a minute or so and we chased after it trying to not get spooled, but eventually the hook just pulled out. By the looks of it I would say it was a big oversized sturgeon that was foul hooked. It would have been nice to catch a glimpse of the beast but we just could not get it done. All in all it was a great day on the water. We ended up with a box full of 5-6 pound males for the table and let several others go. Looks like the fishing should be good from here on out!

Casey