Eagles and Sturgeon
It was a clear, hot but not humid afternoon with the water temp about 74. I had T, A, and lil B with me as we left the O Landing (I had a little trouble finding it) around 4:30. We saw the splash from a sturgeon breech when we first got on the boat.
Immediately we pulled up to the Rams research boat as Doc M pulled up a smallish (5 feet) male sturgeon out of the gill net. A went over to investigate the scutes and cartilage. T meanwhile noted that sturgeon have been around for 240mm years.
As for the size potential, here is a stock photo from the web-
Here are a couple of photos of our fish:
Good view of the strange mouth and barbels. In all we probably saw about 10 breeches up and down the river.
After our research was complete we went in search of eagles. At first they were hard to find but eventually we caught up with about 8 of them. Most came to the fish we threw them as in this stock photo (my camera isn't that good)-
We actually saw this several times, including a one talon pickup.
All in all we saw the eagles, osprey, egrets, herons (including two which came toward the pontoon boat and ate fish), and cormorant, and heard a kingfisher. Then we saw a giant hybrid eagle-
Home for gelato dinner.
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