I have been too busy lately.
I hate when it goes from winter to summer instantly. You all know what I am talking about. Last winter when there was nothing to do and
I was reviewing my "Bucket List" I once again began my quest of the
great white sturgeon. This has gone on
for years with no success. Lots of
research but no direction.
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I had met a guide last fall when fishing for Chinook in
Tillamook that said he fished for sturgeon so I contacted him and set a trip up
even though it was early in the season.
The time finally arrived this past weekend. As a fisheries biologist, I had seen and read
about sturgeon but I had never touched or examined them. That is how they got on my "Bucket
List". Fishing in the mouth of the
Columbia River with the constant rain and wind, it happened. With an anchovy on a single barbless hook the
tap, tap, tap started. The pole
"loaded up" and the jerk. The
battle ensued and in a half hour an exhausted fish and angler finally met. Too large to keep at 65" we held it for
a minute and parted ways. A sense of
satisfaction came over me. Another
lifetime goal accomplished. Never give
up on your dreams.
