Bob Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Headed out from Spanish today around oneish just for a little cruise. Milady and I aboard along with sister-in-law, neice and her two young ones. They came for a visit from Alberta and wanted to go for a ride and see some sights and maybe fish a bit. As soon as we cleared the last of the buoyed channel, I started setting lines, two off the back corners and two off the planer boards. The water we were fishing was 12 to 15 feet deep. Shortly after two, we got a hit and I grabbed the rod. "Holy smoke, that's a heavy fish!" I was using a 9' rigger stick with 20 lb line and the lure was a perch coloured super shad rap. I thought at first maybe big pike or musky but it wouldn't come up. Hugged the bottom the whole time. Two hours into the scrap, milady was feeding me a sandwich and a bottle of water. By this time, I'm thinking big sturgeon because it stayed down and didn't swim too fast but it had a lot of weight and power. A couple of times I thought I'd lost it when it came towards the boat and left me with slack line hanging from the rod tip. Finally, around six thirty with milady running late to take her insulin (she hadn't brought it because we were only going for a couple of hours) sister-in-law getting tired (she has cancer) and the young ones getting bored and antsy, I tightened up and let it break off. Neice did a marvelous job of handling the boat while we chased that fish around for four and a half hours. It was great fun but my arms are near dead and I know I'm going to be sore in the AM. Sorry, no pix, it wouldn't let us get a look at it but I have witnesses and I'm convinced it had to be a sturgeon. There have been 200 + lbers taken out of that part of the North Channel by the commercial boats. Maybe it was even a money fish, who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solopaddler Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Wow, 41/2 hours? that's just crazy! Shame you didn't get to at least see it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 DAMMIT MAN!!!... I hate it when the big one gets away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 You hook one of our Canadian subs a little off course? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccmtcanada Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 You hook one of our Canadian subs a little off course? Oh great...that little hole the hook left is gonna cost us billions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehg Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 You musta snagged a massive sturgeon or had caught a huge musky. Do sturgeon hit lures? Great story, ehg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted July 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Sturgeon do hit lures and I'm sure that's what I had. I can't imagine a musky fighting that long without surfacing. I understand that the world record lake sturgeon was caught on a mepps spinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekadam Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 WOW!!! 4 1/2 hours, after putting in that much work it's too bad you didn't get a look at it, but a great story nonetheless d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbuck Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 WOW!!! 4 and a half hours of fighting!! I'd be in a body cast by now. It can't be one of our subs, they are all dry docked. I guess they look prettier that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 It was probably the Ogopogo, Bob. Wow, what a shame you didn't get to at least look at it. Joey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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