Hells Canyon: Big Sturgeon fishing Killgore adventures

Pretty cool, Mike. Is that your company? We have shovel-bill sturgeon on the Tennessee River; they call them shovel-bill catfish but are actually a member of the sturgeon family. They snag them in the tail-race below dams for the roe.
I finally got to shoot that .45-120; couldn't hit the side of a barn with it but it was still a lot of fun. I think there was too much deviation in the loads for any consistency. I'm going to load a batch when I get back with some of that new powder and see if I can get a little better grouping. I got a bunch of pretty consistent 200 gr. bullets that I just cast from some tire weights. They all weigh in pretty close.

 

SC.... You sure you're not thinking Spoonbill (Paddlefish). I used to go snagging for them below Kentucky Dam, great eating, not a bone in the whole fish, and people love the roe.

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Looks like that one escaped the smoker. I'm guessing Idaho has close to the same fishing regs as us, is there reason for letting it go.

 

I am a big advocate of the Catch, fillet, and release program.