Sounds as good as any other reason I can think of........or they are following the schools of shad in groups.

As with a lot of things this year, the Sturgeon bite sure seem to be a few weeks behind schedule.

The bite has finally picked up with only a week to go in the season.

Spent a late night out there with Shamu, WWG, and Capt Fireman. We ended up with 26 fish the biggest being 47" and another handful over 40.

Thanks again Andy, that was a lot of fun!















This poor guy not only had a Lamprey on it's head, he also got a bad nose job






This is kind of cool:

Very nice fish guys! Glad to see you guys are gett'in on them.

Had to pass up a trip yesterday on the Croix North for sturgies and flats, because I had to play Mr. Mom and let mommy go out with friends

Ah, well. I am saving up my GOOJ free cards for ice time right now

Looks like the evenning is what is happeng right now. Ilove it when they jump like that.

I know you know but for the newcombers the small sturgeon was a shovelnose stureon witch run smaller than the lake sturgeon. The differance you can tell buy the narrower and upturn to the nose and also you can tell buy the two rows of spines on the belly the shavel nose has.
To be honest I really didnt know the differance till this year. This year was the first time I caught a shovelnose and has been 4 so far.

Actually, that is a Lake Sturgeon. I've never caught a Shovelnose on the Croix. I catch them quite regularly on the Minnesota though.

They are quite obvious when you catch them. The tail section is pencil thin and the head is very wide.

Cool, Thank thank you for correcting me, Sorry all, on bad info. Do the bigger ones lose those double rows of spines down the belly as they mature because I didnt notice them on the bigger ones. Must be a defense system when younger

You definatly can see the differance there.

Their spines become very less noticeable the bigger they get. You will be surprised how much different a shovelnose looks when you catch it. No mistaken.

You will will immediately say to yourself, "what the heck is this?"

dtro & WWG, Care to share the approx depth these larger fishing have been coming from?

The same depth you were anchored at when we crossed paths recently

Good answer. Thanks. I'll be out there Friday night till Sat morning. Anybody else?

It looks like we are going to have a full moon the 14th any ideas if this will help if the weather patern is stable and the water temp drops. Lots of variables there but it would be cool if it all worked out.

Can any one give me any advice for sturgeon fishing. A good place to go in at on the river or just any good things to bring. Also depths to look for fish. All or anything will help thanks

Look for areas that neck down and depths from 30-50 ft. If you look at a contour map or GPS chip, these areas really pop out at you. Crawlers seem to be a good locater bait, but most of the bigger fish I've seen come on some sort of meat (fathead, shiner, shad etc). Being patient is key, these fish move around and you can have no action for a couple hours and then can't keep them off your line the next couple hours.

dtro
Thanks for the help. I will be going out Tuesday at 3:30pm if you see a old 1957 alumacraft # k with 25 hp merc say hi. Good day

I sure would like to make it over there for one last hooraa before summer slides away.. I have never fished the St. Croix.. would be fun.