6ft steurgon caught at the mouth of the merrimack

[MrHunters]

anyone here about this.? happened a couple weeks ago. on a sluggo even! just read an article about in the groveland gazette or whatever that thing is called that I get weekly.

[BEETLE]

Yes - a friend at work read about it in the Newburyport daily news.

[MrHunters]

uhh thats not the story that i read.

it wasn't even taken out of the water according to the interview in the paper i read.

[Big Game]

MrHunters is correct. According to the article. they knew exactly what it was as soon as they saw it. It was brought to the boat and promptly released. Here's a link to the article along with a picture of the fish...

http://www.newburyportnews.com/punew...234004040.html

[pmueller]

Not an unusual thing these days. Had a similar fish a couple of years ago in the CT river.
Some in the Raritan Bay, so I'm told.

[BEETLE]

Sorry - my co-worker obviously did not carefully read the article...

[Jim H]

Yeah....my brother Jeff (was visiting from Idaho) caught it on my boat. Funny...he called the local paper....seeing they had run a BIG story the week before about a "GREAT WHITE SHARK" seen in the mouth of the Mack. Figured if they printed that story..

Anyways...of course he fails to mention my name....or my boat name - got fish?....or that he was using my rod...my reel..my line..my lure...my GAS.



I attached a photo. We got it close enough for a picture, but didn't know if you could take them out of the water (since they are endangered). I attempted to use the Boga grip, but it wouldn't grip on it's soft sucker lips. I didn't want to try to put a rope around the tail, again fearing I'd hurt the fish.

Glad we got it to the boat and snapped a photo. If it had broken off, we would have thought we lost a HUGE striper.