I'd love to catch one of those anyway I could, fly, big stick, hands except that they would slice you right up!!!
I shipped my rods out two years ago when I was setting up an office in Sacramento. I had a sturgeon on from shore for about 5 minutes maybe. Wasn't fighting all that hard then BANG!!! GONE!!! I was fishing a 1209Sabre and a Calcutta 400 - bye-bye... Almost all of those fish of any size are caught from boat, much like tarpon fishing I guess. BTW - the fish hit shrimp. I wound out that trip with two measily stripers but it was fun
