spectr17
10-26-2007, 10:18 AM
Jim Matthews ONS
10/25/07
Huge sturgeon to 200 pounds to be planted in Hesperia Lake
Two loads of sturgeon are scheduled to be delivered to the Hesperia Lake Thursday this week, according to Ed Rister, lake manager. The first load will be 3,000 pounds of the 15 to 25 pounders that proved so popular with anglers over the past year. The second load will consist of six fish from 50 to 200 pounds each.
Sturgeon were first planted in Hesperia Lake in April this year and fish to just over 40 pounds have been caught since the plant. They have proven popular with anglers, many who let the prehistoric fish go.
They loved em, said Rister. These guys have been catching them all summer. We caught five two weeks ago -- and Id thought they were all gone, but these guys catch em and let em go.
After a half-year of experience on sturgeon now behind fishermen here, Rister said anglers are hooking most of the sturgeon on trout floating dough baits like Power Bait.
The trout guys were hooking most of em up. It would take an average of 1 1/2 to two hours to bring one in, said Rister.
Hesperia Lake has been planting trout since the lakes water became cool enough a month ago. Rister said hes been getting a lot of brown trout from Tim Alpers in the Eastern Sierra with some of these fish in the 6 1/2 to 8 1/2-pound range. Unlike the sturgeon and rainbow trout, the browns dont eat the floating baits much, and he said inflated nightcrawlers, meal worms, and a variety of lures have been best for the browns.
10/25/07
Huge sturgeon to 200 pounds to be planted in Hesperia Lake
Two loads of sturgeon are scheduled to be delivered to the Hesperia Lake Thursday this week, according to Ed Rister, lake manager. The first load will be 3,000 pounds of the 15 to 25 pounders that proved so popular with anglers over the past year. The second load will consist of six fish from 50 to 200 pounds each.
Sturgeon were first planted in Hesperia Lake in April this year and fish to just over 40 pounds have been caught since the plant. They have proven popular with anglers, many who let the prehistoric fish go.
They loved em, said Rister. These guys have been catching them all summer. We caught five two weeks ago -- and Id thought they were all gone, but these guys catch em and let em go.
After a half-year of experience on sturgeon now behind fishermen here, Rister said anglers are hooking most of the sturgeon on trout floating dough baits like Power Bait.
The trout guys were hooking most of em up. It would take an average of 1 1/2 to two hours to bring one in, said Rister.
Hesperia Lake has been planting trout since the lakes water became cool enough a month ago. Rister said hes been getting a lot of brown trout from Tim Alpers in the Eastern Sierra with some of these fish in the 6 1/2 to 8 1/2-pound range. Unlike the sturgeon and rainbow trout, the browns dont eat the floating baits much, and he said inflated nightcrawlers, meal worms, and a variety of lures have been best for the browns.