Friend sent me this photo taken in Redmond today. Am I right that it looks like a sturgeon? Sammamish River.
Sammamish Sturgeon?
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Definitely.
Maybe following American Shad...
www.historylink.org
American Shad Caught In Sammamish Slough -
Some of Lake Washington's new population of American shad appears to be making a spawning run up the Sammamish Slough this spring.
nwsportsmanmag.com
Biologists retrieve a 670-pound sturgeon from Lake Washington, near K
On November 5, 1987, biologists with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife haul out perhaps the biggest fish ever seen in Lake Washington. Weighing in at 670 pounds and measuring 11 feet lon
www.historylink.org
That would have been cool to see. I’ve heard there are some in Lake Washington. Seen stories over the years of mysterious creatures surfacing on the lake, think of the Loch Ness Monster of Lake Washington. I would have assumed it may have been a sturgeon.
Could just be the photo, but the tail looks odd. FWIW def looks like a sturgeon at a glance though.
Atlantic Salmon
Mingo swears he saw one in the cedar...
10 weight rod?
A shad fly pattern might be a tad difficult to fly cast. Sturgeon do also eat smelt, and a smelt fly pattern is definitely castable on a heavier weight fly rod. I believe Steve Probasco (RIP) caught a sturgeon on a fly in a Willapa Bay estuary years ago.
There was a story on the Westfly site a few years ago where John Montana and his buddies saw a sturgeon while fly fishing for carp on the Columbia. They hooked it and landed it. It was incredible.
Yep, he wrote about it in one of his books.
Broomstick
