Acipenser Fulvescens - One of twenty species of sturgeon.
If you are out fishing for the familiar walleye and northern in Minnesota waters and you hook into a Lake Sturgeon, it can be quite a surprise for those who have never met up with these big swimmers that have an ancient-looking design. Out in Lake Superior, they average four feet in length and thirty-five pounds. But if your “fortunate” enough to hook into a big one be prepared to see a fish that has set a record at seven feet and three hundred pounds. This bottom-feeder can live up to one-hundred years so with all those years of eating some size is more than possible.
Fishing for sturgeon in most states is limited in some way. Far less seen now than a century ago, over-fishing put a dent in their slow-producing population. Sturgeon can’t reproduce until their third decade, and the females only spawn every four to five years.
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