Made the drive to the Columbia just had to take a shot at sturgeon fishing. Launched at Wind Rver and fished the mouth for three hours and would move every half hour or so. No sturgeon just a 6lb sucker on sand shrimp. Boated up to Drano Lake fished there for an hour nothing. Studied the map a little decided to fish the deeper water about half way in between the two in 50ft of water. Upon arriving at the chosen spot . Just a few minutes before we had our first fish on a 46" keeper. Action was fairly constant between bites, bating and retying. Smelt was the bait of the day. We ended up boating 6 sturgeon the largest at 37lbs and the smallest at 30in. water temp 40 degrees. No wind and the sun was out most of the day. Great day to be fishing

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