Doug and Bob's oldest son, Loel went fishing on the Delta and caught a whole lot of sturgeon. They said all the boats around them were also bringing them in that day. We used to fish for them more than 40 years ago and they were very hard to find. So, this was a big treat for the guys. Doug got one keeper and is anxious to go back for more.
Sturgeon are the oddest looking fish in the Delta. They look like something prehistoric.
But, odd as they are, here is something even odder, a rare green sturgeon my nephew pulled in and then released. A green sturgeon.
I have seen pictures of sturgeon over six feet long. It was always our hope to get one, back in the early 1960s, but our biggest was 47 inches, and at the time the legal limit limited was over 48 inches long. Otherwise they had to be released.
I'm too old and cold to fish now. I leave it to the guys to break the family record and land a whopper soon. I kind of think Doug said his was around 47 inches too. He can do better - or Loel can, so we can have a new benchmark.
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