Back on the water!

I met my clients Bruce and Matt at the Tisdale boat ramp and we headed downstream, if it's not broke don't fix it is my motto for sturgeon fishing and as long as there are plenty of fish down stream that's where I'll go. We got down to the hole and floated down thru it looking for fish and it didn't take long to find some! As we floated down I marked 4 on the graph and before we could anchor had seen 3 roll. We got anchored up and within minutes had a good bite and fish on, however, it wasn't a sturgeon, just a little shaker striper. We re baited and the waiting game ensued. Finally at 7:30 the inside rod went down and Bruce set the hook, fish on and this time it was a sturgeon! Bruce fought the fish for 15 minutes before we slipped the nice 43 inch keeper into the net! We got the rods back into the water and were waiting patiently when the inside rod buried again. This time I grabbed the rod and set the hook and handed it to Matt. We got the other lines cleared and Matt went to work on the fish, it was ripping line off the rod as fast as he could get it back on. The fight lasted about 5 minutes before the fish made a hard run towards the bank and jumped right at the shoreline, spitting the hook, fish off! It was an oversized fish by the looks of it but still would have liked to get a closer look. We fished the rest of the night and had a few more bites but nothing to swing on. Another great night on the water and the guys got to take home a great eating fish.