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tblue37

(68,448 posts) Sun Mar 10, 2024, 12:18 PM Mar 2024

BIG fish!

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BIG fish! (Original Post) tblue37 Mar 2024 OP

Probably as old as some of us are here at DU. MiHale Mar 2024 #1

Some love over 100 Johnny2X2X Mar 2024 #7

Holy Crap! Bayard Mar 2024 #2

Awesome! anciano Mar 2024 #3

Good lord !!! Karadeniz Mar 2024 #4

Looks like a sturgeon. Emile Mar 2024 #5

It is. tblue37 Mar 2024 #6

We have Shovelnose sturgeon here in Indiana. Emile Mar 2024 #8

We have a sturgeon spearing weekend each year here in Wisconsin... Archae Mar 2024 #9

MiHale

(13,163 posts)

1. Probably as old as some of us are here at DU.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 12:35 PM

Mar 2024

Long lived fish avg. lifespan 50-60 years.

Johnny2X2X

(24,434 posts)

7. Some love over 100

Reply to MiHale (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 10:30 PM

Mar 2024

One that size was probably quite old.

Bayard

(30,264 posts)

2. Holy Crap!

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 02:00 PM

Mar 2024

That's a sea serpent!

anciano

(2,312 posts)

3. Awesome!

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 02:08 PM

Mar 2024

Karadeniz

(24,761 posts)

4. Good lord !!!

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 02:19 PM

Mar 2024

Emile

(43,244 posts)

5. Looks like a sturgeon.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 03:30 PM

Mar 2024

tblue37

(68,448 posts)

6. It is.

Reply to Emile (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 10, 2024, 09:13 PM

Mar 2024

Emile

(43,244 posts)

8. We have Shovelnose sturgeon here in Indiana.

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 08:13 AM

Mar 2024

There is healthy population of shovelnose sturgeon in the Wabash river and very good eating. The Indiana state record shovelnose sturgeon is only 14 pounds 8 ounces. We do have rock sturgeon in lake Michigan and they grow up to six and half feet long and weigh over 200 pounds. Out west in the Columbia River they have White sturgeon and they grow more than ten feet long and weigh hundreds of pounds.

Archae

(47,245 posts)

9. We have a sturgeon spearing weekend each year here in Wisconsin...

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2024, 10:03 AM

Mar 2024

The biggest one caught this year was one that weighed 113 pounds. (!)

They really are big fish!

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