We inadvertently hooked a sturgeon today while striper fishing. We released it u...

[capt ace]

We inadvertently hooked a sturgeon today while striper fishing. We released it unharmed and did not remove it from the river when doing so.

[Rascal Trophy Fishing]

This is indeed a rare sight these days. And as we all should know, these Sturgeon are prehistoric/endangered species, and not to be kept at all. I remember my dad telling me stories growing up that he went for 2-3 summers as a 12-15 year old out in Lk. Mich. on his grandfather's sailing/shipping schooner. They regularly fished with large ropes and hooks over the side to catch them for eating, (legal then, about 1908 or so). The Sturgeon in those days could reach 10' in length, and over 200 lbs.. They would filet them and put them in barrels of brine salt to cure, then cook them at later dates.