There’s bound to be variations, but when Michael and Margaret Snell — a retired English couple from Salisbury — return home this weekend they’ll have their story of hooking into a 1,100 pound monster sturgeon to captivate family, friends and neighbours.
At 12-feet-four-inches long, with a girth of 53 inches and weighing an estimated 1,100 pounds, guide Dean Werk of Great Fishing Adventures estimates the sturgeon to be over 100 years old.
“A fish of this size and strength is nearly impossible to land,” he said. “The angler has a less than two per cent chance of everything going as well as it did.”
Eventually the fish was brought to the shore with the trio standing chest high in the water embracing their catch while photos were taken before the fish was released.
The Snells had caught a five-foot long sturgeon in B.C. in June 2009 which got them hooked on sturgeon fishing and came back this year to try their luck again.
“When we picked her head out of the water it was almost three feet wide. I never knew a fish could be that large.” Only in British Columbia, Michael.
gbellett@vancouversun.com
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12-foot sturgeon caught near Chilliwack weighed 1,100 pounds
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