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.
Willamette River Monsters
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Re: Willamette River Monsters
They are monster fish Craig.
Thanks for the report & pics .
Thanks for the report & pics .
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Re: Willamette River Monsters
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.
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Re: Willamette River Monsters
Just increases my impatience to get going with my Sobalo build. You're demonstrating everything I want to see in a nice fishing yak!
My psychologist reckons I need lots of fishin' therapy!
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Re: Willamette River Monsters
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.goanywhere wrote:Just increases my impatience to get going with my Sobalo build. You're demonstrating everything I want to see in a nice fishing yak!