White Sturgeon Planted in Snake River...
 

"runsrealfast" wrote in message
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...wont it be to cold this far up north?

Sturgeon do very well in the Fox and Wolf river drainages, including Lake
Winnebago (which freezes over every year), here in Curdistan.

Wolfgang

White Sturgeon Planted in Snake River...
 

In article . com,
runsrealfast wrote:

But the question still remains will they move up into the areas where
fishing is popular. We are talking about 20-30 miles of traveling plus
the water will drop in temperature a bit upstream. I doubt I would
ever land one on a fly, but can imagine maybe a smaller one going
after a streamer. They are known to feed on smaller fish.

John

Dont they first smell the bait with feelers (mandibles?) before they
take the bait? That is what green and white sturgeon do at least.

White Sturgeon Planted in Snake River...
 

In article ,
"Calif Bill" wrote:

The largest white sturgeon ever caught was from the Snake river. They do
not affect the trout population from what I see. The Pit River in
California may still have sturgeon. And the Kootanei river has them from
Montana to Kootanai lake. All good trout areas.

I seriously doubt the Pit RIver has Sturgeon, it very possibly used to
have sturgeon since it empties into Lake Shasta, and before Lake shasta
would have emptied into the Sacramento river, and the Sacramento River
has a ton of sturgeon. The lower sac is also one of the best trout
fisheries in the US, given all the food from the anadronymous fish
(salmon, shad, sturgeon, steelhead, striper) as well as the shasta dam
having a special device that release cold water from the bottom of lake
shasta so the river is constantly cool even tho Redding gets up to 115
degrees.

White Sturgeon Planted in Snake River...
 

"Julie" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Calif Bill" wrote:

The largest white sturgeon ever caught was from the Snake river. They do
not affect the trout population from what I see. The Pit River in
California may still have sturgeon. And the Kootanei river has them from
Montana to Kootanai lake. All good trout areas.

I seriously doubt the Pit RIver has Sturgeon, it very possibly used to
have sturgeon since it empties into Lake Shasta, and before Lake shasta
would have emptied into the Sacramento river, and the Sacramento River
has a ton of sturgeon. The lower sac is also one of the best trout
fisheries in the US, given all the food from the anadronymous fish
(salmon, shad, sturgeon, steelhead, striper) as well as the shasta dam
having a special device that release cold water from the bottom of lake
shasta so the river is constantly cool even tho Redding gets up to 115
degrees.

When I was a kid, was neat to look from the top of Shasta Dam and see the
sturgeon that would swim near the surface there. The hatchery in the area
had a large White Sturgeon on display for years that they got from a shallow
pool on the Pit. There may still be spawners up in Shasta.