Michigan River Monsters- Sturgeon Fishing on the St. Clair River

   09.19.11

This past Saturday I pulled a 24 hour day of being in the outdoors here in Michigan. My day began getting up super early (2am), for a youth duck hunt down here on Lake Erie. More to come on that on the next blog. After I finished up down on Erie, it was a quick pit stop at home to grab a flat of crawlers and change of clothes and on the road I went again.






Leaving the Dock for a night of fishing.
I was meeting up with the 

St. Clair-Detroit River Sturgeon for Tomorrow 
group for an evening of food and fishing for Michigan’s River Monster, the Lake Sturgeon. The group was having a meet and greet at Algonac State Park just north of Algonac , Michigan on the shores of St. Clair River. After a few hotdogs and hello’s Jim Felgenauer, Jeremy Guc, Steve Guc and myself hoped into our trucks to meet up with Jenny Olson from Michigan Out of Doors TV at M&M Bait shop. M&M also donated a flat of crawlers to the group. After getting Jenny a few shots for the show’s opening  segments, a few stories and catching up it was back in the trucks to pass out the bait to the group for the night of fishing and to make sure everyone that showed up had a place on a boat. Tonight’s outing had a great mix of people we had a few regulars all the way down to some Sturgeon Virgins. Once the boat assignments and photo ops were all done it was time to head on down to the boat launch and get fishing.

Jeremy with this nice 36 inch Lake Sturgeon
I was going to be fishing in Steve and Jeremy’s  boat that evening, and also on board was Jenny. After figuring out a little battery issue it was time to fish. The weather was perfect, no wind just a touch of a fall chill in the air and clear skies. The…

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