'It's ridiculously huge': Fraser River fishermen net massive sturgeon

Oh my lord! That's amazing!

Sweet. Biggest sturgeon I've ever seen was 80lbs. A kid hooked it and the fish was pulling him deeper into the river as his dad was running down the shore to him. The kid was in the drink past his nipples and yelling when his Dad got there and they hauled it in. Ugly freakin' fish!

Gotta agree with ya on ugly, but when you see one of these monsters jumping in the middle of the river, THAT my friend is a thing of beauty.

Nice catch.

Glad they have to release 'em too.

Once again I've to agree with you on that, before they were regulated we used to go nearly every weekend in season, minimum size for keeping them was 36". The whole time we were out we only kept 1, cooked it up for dinner, my God was the meat ever sweet, tasty, but really really sweet.

He a big guy I wonder how old that fish is?

That brings back memories!!

and like Hyack said, watching one of those monsters get three+ feet of air in the middle of the river is an awesome sight.

It's been quite a few years since I tangled with one of these prehistoric beasts and my largest fish released was a little over 7 feet. I did hook a much larger fish in the Fraser near Williams Lake some years ago, 12-14 feet was the estimate by some native fisherman who were after salmon a little ways away and came over when they saw this fish/whale role in the current. But alas, after a few hours, the fish got mad and simple swam away spooling my reel.

Awesome fish guys! waytago!!!

As for the age of that fish, my buddy caught a nine foot fish in a Fraser tributary one time and we showed the picture to Fred at Fred's custom tackle in Chilliwack. He estimated the age of the nine foot fish at about 125 years old. By this chart http://www.coastangler.com/fishing/stur ... ator.shtml it looks like roughly an inch a year once they get larger. 43 year old fish at 8 feet, it would be over 100 years old by the looks of things.