| My wife and I had caught a number of Sturgeon in a certain location and had marked the spot on the GPS. We were catching 5 ft. fish on a regular basis and on our last day, we said to ourselves,"lets catch the big one before we go home." We were in Lillooet for our daughter's wedding and had to be back home the next week. I was using a rather light salmon rod and a halibut reel when I hooked into a good sized fish. We took turns fighting it and finally, after an hour and a half, we got it to shore. I had to drag it on to the beach because the water was deep and we were fishing from shore. We took a couple of photos, measured the monster, and slid it back into the river. Turns out it was 8 ft. 9 in. That poor Fraser King rod was really creaking. So, please find attached, a picture of my wife with our fish, I was in a hurry to get the fish back into the river so I didn't have a chance to get in the picture. |
