“We couldn’t believe it,” Tom Kirk said the next day. “This fish came out of the water probably three times about 10, 15 feet in the air. It looked like a shark coming out of the water.”
Kirk’s fellow fisherman Terry Jacobson agreed.
“Like a Great White,” he marveled. “It was pretty incredible.”
The third member of the group, Alex Kirk, said the hardest part of making the catch was simply keeping up with the massive fish, which took the boat down the river for several kilometres and into a pile of logs before finally relenting.
“It’s like hooking up to a truck and just letting it go,” he said. “Wherever that sturgeon wanted to go, we went and we had to follow it. |
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