Lake Erie Sturgeon stocking

[OhioFisherman]

https://www.toledozoo.org/pressreleases/083018sturgeon

Hope that works out! They might need more than 3000 though?

[Mike Pike]

That's really exciting news Ohio.  I love when efforts are made to repopulate our waters with native species, especially ancient ones like sturgeon. 

I've never ever seen a sturgeon in the wild in my life!  

[OhioFisherman]

8 hours ago, Mike Pike said:

That's really exciting news Ohio.  I love when efforts are made to repopulate our waters with native species, especially ancient ones like sturgeon. 

I've never ever seen a sturgeon in the wild in my life!  

Mike, I have never seen one in the wild myself. There has been a few news reports over the years here of an occasional catch, but very few and very far between. 

I watched a video earlier this year of Mark Zona and Jordan Lee fishing Lake St. Clair, Jordan hooked one the estimated to be around 100 pounds, he played it for a long time but lost it.

 

[OhioFisherman]

Mike, I also watched a few videos of people diving ship wrecks on Lake Erie, burbot are still around!

[Mike Pike]

That's unbelievable about Burbot in Erie.  I know a few people catch 'em icefishing on Lake Simcoe up here, but I've never heard of one being caught in Erie.  You certainly don't think of Erie for Burbot, anyway. 

Man, I gotta get out more!

[Gil Levesque]

Icaught a ling(burbot) in the upper niagara near the peace bridge several years ago! Surprised the hell outta me!! The upper niagara has it all!!! 

[Canuck]

Wonder if sturgeon eat gobies too?

[OhioFisherman]

3 hours ago, Canuck said:

Wonder if sturgeon eat gobies too?

Canuck, just guessing with a sturgeon's mouth being on the bottom of their face that bottom dwelling fish like gobies would be a prime meal for them? Aren't sturgeon typically bottom dwellers?

Gil, when I was very young I remember my dad talking about ice fishing for burbot " lawyers " at a place about 50 miles east of Cleveland, I don't know of anyone that has caught them recently. I was surprised to see them in the diving videos, most people I know don't bottom fish in those kind of depths though.

[OhioFisherman]