Searching around at this point it was just after 1300 and Ethan and Garrett were already talking about heading home early. I wasn't going to let that happen though, I don't play like that. Tides were changing and I was hoping that would help us out some. Dropped anchor at the Powerlines at the beginning of the incoming tide. Sitting on top of some marks that looked like this I had a decent amount of confidence.
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We had sardines, shad, grass, ghost, and roe in the water. Soon enough Garrett starts getting hit on sardines and before you know it we finally got a fish in the boat.
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Not our target fish, but Striper taco's are delicious. Fish in the box, good feeling.
Garrett and Ethan kept sardines and shad on to keep the action going. I stuck with a roe ghost combo really hoping the sturg was around and hungry. I should have listen to the advice Kenji gave me a while back though cause before you knew it, Ethan's rod doubles over on his shad and he hooks into our first sturgeon of the day. Smaller fish, but still a blast and we got our target fish in the boat.
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Scrappy little 33 incher.
Back into the drink it goes. Regardless of anything else getting one sturgeon on the boat makes me happy. Being such an elusive fish for me even the shakers get me excited.
After seeing that one come up our blood was pumping and we were all excited. Watching the rods closely and testing out our new balance beam today.
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Does its job and works great. Got to love to new resources I have access too now, that Ethan has hooked me up with to be able to get all this metal work done.
Fish kept biting in waves as schools came through. We picked up a shaker here and there to keep us entertained, then Garrett swings into something a little bigger. After feeling the weight I heard him say "Its a sturgeon." I have to admit I didn't believe him at first, not because I didn't believe him, I just didn't think we would be lucky enough to get two so quickly. Sure enough though his rod is going crazy and that's a sturg pulling for sure.
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Looks like its got more weight to it too, fingers crossed maybe we got a keeper. Fish comes up and it looks close, but small at first glance.
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Taped him out to 37 inches. Pretty close, but still not enough. Still a great fish though.
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Garrett's sturgeon of the day.
Our 2nd trip out now and we've brought 3 sturgeon to the boat I can't complain one bit, were doing pretty good. On both sides of the slot now, we just have to get one in the middle. Stuck it out till almost 1800 with a few more shakers to show for out efforts.
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I did miss a few good pumps on roe, but wasn't able to connect on it. All of our fish came on shad mostly and sardines.
Headed back in to have the boat put away and back home by 2100. Been a very long, but awesome day. Starting to really get into this Sturgeon thing. I think I'm starting to figure them out. Hopefully it will only get better from here.
Till next time guys
Mark
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