Sturgeon Ball .... Fish-0-Plenty
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:39 pm
I guess this is kind of a re-post as a search showed someone mentioned this in the off-topic section. They did not have a link to the article itself though. I also figured people visiting the River section of the forum would find it a good read
Sturgeon Ball from Oregon Paper
To summarize, last Feb they found that thousands and thousands of sturgeon were pilled up together just below the Dam. Not that there is not a good number of fish there year round, but this showed up on their sonar as possible debris from the dam so they investigated with a underwater camera. Here is a link to the video footage of what they found
Sturgeon Ball
The beginning of the video shows a sturgeon clinging close to what I thought was a large boulder at first, but turns out to be just the head of a monster "peeler" sturgeon.
Sturgeon Ball from Oregon Paper
To summarize, last Feb they found that thousands and thousands of sturgeon were pilled up together just below the Dam. Not that there is not a good number of fish there year round, but this showed up on their sonar as possible debris from the dam so they investigated with a underwater camera. Here is a link to the video footage of what they found
Sturgeon Ball
The beginning of the video shows a sturgeon clinging close to what I thought was a large boulder at first, but turns out to be just the head of a monster "peeler" sturgeon.