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Textcritic · 08-09-2006, 05:05 PM

http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/issue...082106nn1.html

360 kg. and 120 years old! It was fished out of my neck of the woodslast week. Is that not the biggest fish you have ever seen?

Regulator75 · 08-09-2006, 05:17 PM

Geez, what did they use for bait? Kittens? Sheep?

Just think what's lurking in the ocean...

Kybosh · 08-09-2006, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Regulator75

Geez, what did they use for bait? Kittens? Sheep?

Just think what's lurking in the ocean...

Maybe they were "noodling" hehe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling

Lanny_MacDonald · 08-09-2006, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Regulator75

Geez, what did they use for bait? Kittens? Sheep?

Canucks fans.

pope04 · 08-09-2006, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Textcritic

Is that not the biggest fish you have ever seen?

Yes. Mind you, a CP poster - was it Mike Oxlong? - posted a pic last year of a beauty pike he caught.

This is testing my fragile memory, but wasn't there a hotel in Brooks that had an enormous stuffed sturgeon in the lobby?

JimmytheT · 08-09-2006, 07:39 PM

Hey textcritic, where was that image from I did not see it in the article.

I have a sneaking suspicion this could be a hoax.

FlamesAddiction · 08-09-2006, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmytheT

Hey textcritic, where was that image from I did not see it in the article.

I have a sneaking suspicion this could be a hoax.

The Fraser River.

Practically right in my back yard.

HelloHockeyFans · 08-09-2006, 07:45 PM

Man, I love fish! That thing could feed me for months!!!!!

Blaster86 · 08-09-2006, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmytheT

Hey textcritic, where was that image from I did not see it in the article.

I have a sneaking suspicion this could be a hoax.

Nope, that's pretty common. Not that big, but I have seen some large ones come from around here.

Barnes · 08-09-2006, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

Can you eat that type of fish?

Blech. They're a very old species that have survived a LONG time. They can grow like 16m in parts of Russia if I'm not mistaken. Too lazy to look it up right now so I could be wrong.

EDIT: You could eat the roe. Caviar.

REDVAN · 08-09-2006, 10:29 PM

That is a huge fish

Textcritic · 08-09-2006, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmytheT

Hey textcritic, where was that image from I did not see it in the article.

I have a sneaking suspicion this could be a hoax.

No hoax. http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/
I posted the picture and the article from the Chilliwack Times webpage only after my wife showed me the picture from this week's paper.

...I have never before caught a fish...I am ashamed...

nuckles · 08-09-2006, 10:52 PM

That's what the Ogopogo is.

pope04 · 08-10-2006, 07:47 AM

Oops

Flash Walken · 08-10-2006, 08:12 AM

am I the only one that thinks this is a shame?

Bring_Back_Shantz · 08-10-2006, 08:21 AM

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am I the only one that thinks this is a shame?

Probably. The rest of us read the part of the article about the fish being tagged and released.

Barnes · 08-10-2006, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Probably. The rest of us read the part of the article about the fish being tagged and released.

Zing.

In Alberta, you are allowed to take one sturgeon a year and you have to buy a tag for it.

Flashpoint · 08-10-2006, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Probably. The rest of us read the part of the article about the fish being tagged and released.

Well played sir!

Mr.Coffee · 08-10-2006, 09:25 AM

I once caught a fish THIIIS BIIIIG!

troutman · 08-10-2006, 09:33 AM

That beats the 14" Brook Trout I caught last weekend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon

Sturgeon (Acipenser) is a genus of fish, of which some twenty different species are known, from European, Asiatic and North Americanrivers. They pass a great part of the year in the sea, but periodically ascend large rivers, some in spring to deposit their spawn, others later in the season for some unknown purpose; only a few of the species are exclusively confined to fresh water. No species occur in the tropics or in the southern hemisphere.

Sturgeon are bottom-feeders. With their projecting wedgeshaped snout they stir up the soft bottom, and by means of their sensitive barbels detect shells, crustaceans and small fish, on which they feed. Having no teeth, they are unable to seize larger prey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sturgeon

The White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus, meaning "sturgeon beyond the mountains"), also known as the Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, Columbia sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, and California white sturgeon, is a sturgeon (a fish of the family Acipenseridae) which lives along the west coast of North America from the Aleutian Islands to Central California.

It is the largest freshwater fish in North America. A white sturgeon can weigh more than 1500 pounds (680 kg), and grow to 20 feet (6.2 m) in length, and can live 100 years or more.