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Old 03-19-2018, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by SKSniper View Post
You are fishing bad spots then. I have no issues hooking 50+ a year.
As long as people use proper gear and handle them with common sense and care, there is nothing wrong with c&r sturgeon fishing.
I recaptured my pb 67" sturgeon 18 months after i originally caught her, this time she was 115km away from the first spot. Proof that when handled properly and brought in on proper gear, they are a great c&r fish.
The biggest issue however, is lazy buggers that refuse to gear up properly. Ive been chewed out multiple times for telling people to toss their garbage pickerel rigs and trout rods...people are lazy and selfish, nothing we can do about that.
Its not the laziness in all anglers at all; some anglers do use pic rigs for sturgeon though. Some people are not targeting sturgeon but set up with pic rigs for other species. I myself used to use pic rigs for sturgeon. I Changed my gear and fish with the proper gear for sturgeon.
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