I don't come from a family of fishermen so I had no clue they lived that long........https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/100...H21q7pR4L26Xbk
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I don't come from a family of fishermen so I had no clue they lived that long........https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/100...H21q7pR4L26Xbk
I haven't seen one that size since I was a kid growing up on the river. Still never THAT big.That's got to be the Sturgeon General.
Good one;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Honky Tonk
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Here's a slightly larger one from a few years ago:
Record lake sturgeon caught in Wisconsin
Props for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Honky Tonk
Agreed...Quote:
Originally Posted by bust
How exactly do you coax it into the boat?
Rumors are that when they cut the sturgeon open they found the remands of Jimmy Hoffa. Tests show Jimmy’s body has been in the fish for 46 years but he was too tough to be digested. Hey, this is what I saw on the internet so it must be true!
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That one gave me a belly laugh.
Are sturgeon's eatable? Probably too many bones. I've never seen any in stores or fish markets. One that size could feed a family for months.
As caviar, but I don't know about the rest of the fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cincinnati_Kid
I don't think I would go within a mile of a century old cooked fish. It lived the majority of its' life before the EPA even existed. Lord knows what kind of pollutants it picked up from the Great Lakes system.. :eek:
They used to be plentiful, and commonly eaten. I'm old enough to barely remember seeing it on menus / chalkboards up North, and think I remember talk about catching them. No idea how it tastes-- don't think I've ever had it. I love to eat fish but, Gistok, I completely agree: wouldn't knowingly eat anything caught downriver of Sarnia / Midland Bay, let alone anything that's lived there for decades.
I'm intrigued their ancestors swam with the dinosaurs, and they're interesting in many other ways.
Same thing goes for my mother-in-law :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gistok
Absolutely they are. A little bony, yes, but also very light, soft and tasty. My grandmother grew up near the Canadian shore of Lake Erie around the turn of the 20th century. One of her earliest automotive memories was of a man would drive the Ontario country roads with a sturgeon or two on a board in the back of his car, selling off slices of the giant fish to farm families along the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cincinnati_Kid
Sturgeon is a particularly great fish to smoke. In fact, smoked sturgeon is such a delicacy, and in recent times an increasingly unobtainable one, that a famous NYC restaurant/deli is named for it.
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Originally Posted by EastsideAl
Yes, but is it legal?
With a medical card.Quote:
Originally Posted by Honky Tonk
Poor guy. I hope they at least released him back.
maybe he was tired of swimming around for 100 years and said screw it and grabbed the first hook he could find?Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
How did they know it was a 100 years old moments after catching it?
A note on the post said the fish was processed before being returned to the river.
they are actually in protective status.
Tagged and released. She can go on cruising the muddy depths.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
Leave it to Tennessee to one-up Detroit on old fish.
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