Volunteer to help count Sturgeon!!!

[Romeosmydog]

jodiFL, I'd be more concerned with getting hit by a car when traveling to the monitoring site.

Whatever....
A few months back while on their way to check some trot lines, Uncle Roy and Uncle Gordon were going pretty fast down the river about a mile and half past Smoke House Landing when one of those suckers flung his massive self right in the boat. Darn thing came in like a freight train. Lucky for them Uncle Roy had just come into some money and bought a center console. The plexi-glass took the brunt of the attack leaving only minor scratches and a heckova fish tale for my favorite uncles.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Whatever....
A few months back while on their way to check some trot lines, Uncle Roy and Uncle Gordon were going pretty fast down the river about a mile and half past Smoke House Landing when one of those suckers flung his massive self right in the boat. Darn thing came in like a freight train. Lucky for them Uncle Roy had just come into some money and bought a center console. The plexi-glass took the brunt of the attack leaving only minor scratches and a heckova fish tale for my favorite uncles.

You have the best fish tails!

 

[Romeosmydog]

True story. My uncles have fished the river all of their lives. Granddaddy was a fish peddler. They are both really freaked out now about going up the river. It scared the tar out of them.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Great story Romeosmydog! I don't think these volunteers will be running full speed up the river on boats.

I wonder if Uncle Roy knows it is illegal to kill a Sturgeon around here? I also wonder if he could plead self-defense against an assault and battery by a Sturgeon?

 

[Romeosmydog]

Sweetie, of course Uncle Roy knows the laws about sturgeon. He may be from Freeport, but he doesn't live in a cave. He was a tug boat captain and has fished these waters long before you or I were even thought of. That darn fish flung itself into AND out of the boat. Uncle Roy was not up the river to catch sturgeon, geesh he was only in a bass boat! You need a bigger rig for those monsters ;-). Uncle Roy was just doing what all crotchety old uncles do up the river, fishing for trout, flounder or possibly setting cat fish lines...hunting and stuffing elusive ivory billed woodpeckers. (just kidding don't get all flustered).

 

[Sand Angel]

:funn:Great fish story! Glad Uncle Roy is OK.

 

[Romeosmydog]

Momma says that I sound like a yankee, every good river rat knows that you don't fish for flounder up the river .

 

[jodiFL]

Glad to hear Uncle Roy is ok. But it seems that it doesnt happen near as much around here as it does on the Suwanee. They have reports of 6-8 every year it seems like.