“ White Sturgeon ( Acipenser transmontaneous),” Earthwave Society The Idaho White Sturgeon catch and release record is the latest to fall in this 2016 that has seen tons of records fall. According to Fred Partridge, a Senior Fisheries Research Biologist for the Idaho Department of. All fishing is catch and release to sustain the sturgeon fishery. “ One of the giant Sturgeon found in the Lakes of Southern Idaho,” Denver Public Library As fish go, the Idaho white sturgeon is something of a mystery. Jet boat guides have all the right gear and bait to catch a sturgeon. A group of us were out sampling sturgeon this fall, and what we experienced was so amazing that I just had to share it with you. It’s one of the few places where anglers can catch a giant white sturgeon that weighs. The Hell’s Canyon area of Idaho’s Snake River is a wild and wonderful place. Biologists caught three giant sturgeoneach over 10-feet. So, to say the least, catching a 10-foot sturgeon is rare. The Snake River fish each weighed 500 pounds or morea rare size for the species in that area. “Idaho Power crews land giant sturgeon,” Idaho Statesman, Aug. In addition, Idaho’s current catch-and-release record sturgeon is a fish caught from Hells Canyon that was 119.5-inches long (a half-inch short of 10 feet). If you’re looking for one of our longer pieces, click on “Features” under “Categories” in the left navigation column. They are creatures of large rivers and are uniquely adapted for life on the bottom. They can live to be over 100 years old They reside in the Snake, lower Salmon, and Kootenai Rivers of Idaho. Historically, sturgeon up to 1,500 pounds were caught by anglers. Strike Reservoir on July 20 that beat the standing catch-and.
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This piece is one of a series of vignettes that we hope will bring some of these discoveries to life. White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) are the largest freshwater fish in North America. An Idaho angler fishing for sturgeon set a new state record for channel catfish instead, reeling in a 42.5-inch-long fish at C.J. Did it, or was this one of those “big fish” stories that grow bigger with time? The archival photos certainly confirm some very large sturgeon in our state’s rivers, both past and present, but we’ll be the first to admit that historical research often reveals the unbelievable.Įditor’s Note: From time to time, SHRA comes across fun, interesting and notable items in the archives that we think would be of interest to our readers but that don’t warrant a longer blog post. “It actually happened,” the article promised, which raised some of the well-trained eyebrows at SHRA. CJ Strike Reservoir: This may be the absolute best sturgeon fishery in Idaho CJ Strike is only located an hour south of Boise, so its a great fishery for anyone in southern Idaho. One source from 1957 also claimed that, in the early 1900s, Idaho Power Company crews working at the Swan Falls power plant on the Snake River needed to use teams of horses to land big sturgeon.
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