Posted on 05/19/2015 4:59:23 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Interesting that you say that.
Here in S Georgia the rivers are the first place the hogs run when pursued by dogs. They hop in the river and then while they float down we have to chase them downstream in what is usually soggy conditions.
Meanwhile the dogs get scattered all over the place.
Many years ago at The Dalles Dam visitor center in The Dalles, Oregon, I saw a photograph of a huge sturgeon they’d pulled out of the Columbia River back in the 30’s. It was caught near the place where the dam is now. I don’t remember the length or weight, but I remember it took 6 men to hold that sucker up for the picture.
We guessed that the hogs had been chased into the bay by dogs . The female was obviously confused and she was swimming in circles with the babies trying to follow her.
I used to go to Mexico for the Marlin/Dorado/Sailfish & tuna.
I have 3 Marlin north of 250LBS.
Kinda ruins you for freshwater fishing.
"They started fishing at 7 a.m."
As the day waned, they moved upstream, close to Lock and Dam No. 5, where lighting from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers infrastructure would "help us see what we were doing."
Around 9:30 p.m........his retrieve stopped dead.."
Yup!!!
I didn’t catch that detail (that it was a lake sturgeon). I was speaking to white sturgeon, those are truly monsters.
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