Big Fish Story

[DRIFTER_016]

WOW!!!!

 

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/25792789/big-catch-ga-man-reels-in-884lb-fish#.U6KzMNpP8Cc.facebook

[misfish]

Wow that makes two this week. The Fraser is smoken..

[DundasSteelheader]

What a fantastic fish! Wonder how old a fish like that is. I'd also be interested to know what the likelihood that a fish that old fought for 3 hours would survive after being released. Seems to me like it would be hard to recover from.

[bare foot wader]

fish of a lifetime!

 

sturgeon are actually very tough fish, their decline was result of severe overfishing and to a lesser degree loss of spawning/nursery habitat...been a few studies on it, delayed mortality is roughly 2-3% if I remember correctly (monitored for 3 days in holding pens), about 15 years of data since through tagging programs, many fish have been caught numerous times