I found a sea monster!

[Bottomfeeder]

Went for a walk down by the water last night, and found this



I wear a near size twelve shoe... that's a very, very large fish. Not sure why it's in two pieces, I assume due to tidal movements beating it up against the rocks.

Good too see there are still a few big sturgeon around. Unfortunately my discovery of this individual means one less, of course, and no way to know how it died, due to the high rate of degeneration of dead animals in the ocean. I've been fishing my whole life here and have never seen one prior. A lot of people fish along the rocks where this once great beast washed up... imagine hooking one of these from the shore? You would get spooled before you'd even be able to blink.

Here's to hoping there are more around. Sturgeon are endangered worldwide due to overfishing for caviar and destruction of their marine environment and their freshwater spawning grounds.

 

[Warborg]

I was guessing some kind of Doradidae, but I guess that wouldn't make sense around salt water

 

[FMA4ME]

Really dig the armor plates those guys sport!

 

[SumoNinja]

as far as sturgeons go that's not that big

but from what you say, they are apparently rare where you are

 

[FMA4ME]

Really dig the armor plates those guys sport!

are those bone?

 

[Bottomfeeder]

Yeah, the scutes on their back are bone.

Sumo - yeah, apparently Atlantic sturgeon can get well over double the size of this individual. For a sturgeon, not too large at all. But for a fish, in general, quite the impressive stature.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

Come to the northwest and hook up with one. Its fun


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[SumoNinja]

I fished on the Colombian river over night for squaw (ch sp) fish. do you know if they still buy squaw fish up there eddie? I think you catch a whole bunch and they buy them for like $3 each. and you get a $100 if you caught the biggest fish that week

the sturgeon there would jump out of the water. it was cool

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

I fished on the Colombian river over night for squaw (ch sp) fish.

the sturgeon there would jump out of the water. it was cool

Yeah the Columbia is loaded with sturgeon and a few of the bigger fish hatcheries have sturgeon display ponds. I'm not sure why i never take pics, I was just at one last week


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[SumoNinja]

I went to a hatchery while I was there. the display pond was pretty dope. it had stairs that went underground so you can walk down and see the display from the side like a tank. the trout they had with the sturgeons were huge too, the size of your calves I would say

and I also went hiking up that waterfall. either the trail or the waterfall had a native American name. was named after a female native. i'm sure you know what i'm talking about