Kevin Cochran
04-20-2009, 06:36 PM
I had a great time on the water with some buddies over the weekend. We caught 14 sturgeon with the biggest being a 61 incher. It was a cold April day that even included some snow flurries. We caught almost all of our fish from 8am-2pm.
About 20 minutes of fishing a boat pulled directly in front of us looking to anchor. They were within about 2 feet of cutting my anchor line with their prop. I expressed my concern, in a nice way, to the driver of the boat and theh guy in the front told me to "quit my bitching." I looked up and saw a mammoth of a man with a smile on his face. It was Jerry Sondag. They anchored next to us and caught some nice fish.
We had some pretty hilarious equipment failure too. I set the hook on the 61 incher and all of the guides popped off as Brett Waldera was driving by. I was fighting a 50-60lb fish with my reel and the rod tip! It was nuts but somehow we managed to get the fish in the net. Adam Spah was fighting a fish and the reel fell off. I later let Adam attempt to net a fish for me that was in the mid 40's and he performed a netjob like I have never seen and the fish came off.
I will be going back up the next two weekends so visit back to see some more pics.
About 20 minutes of fishing a boat pulled directly in front of us looking to anchor. They were within about 2 feet of cutting my anchor line with their prop. I expressed my concern, in a nice way, to the driver of the boat and theh guy in the front told me to "quit my bitching." I looked up and saw a mammoth of a man with a smile on his face. It was Jerry Sondag. They anchored next to us and caught some nice fish.
We had some pretty hilarious equipment failure too. I set the hook on the 61 incher and all of the guides popped off as Brett Waldera was driving by. I was fighting a 50-60lb fish with my reel and the rod tip! It was nuts but somehow we managed to get the fish in the net. Adam Spah was fighting a fish and the reel fell off. I later let Adam attempt to net a fish for me that was in the mid 40's and he performed a netjob like I have never seen and the fish came off.
I will be going back up the next two weekends so visit back to see some more pics.