Utah man comes home from Idaho with tale of state record sturgeon catch

EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah — A person went on a fishing journey to Idaho earlier this month and got here residence with a story of a state report sturgeon catch.

Greg Poulsen and his spouse went on a guided fishing journey on Aug. 5 on the Snake River close to C.J. Strike Reservoir when Poulsen had an enormous tug on the road.

“It simply feels such as you’re reeling in a fridge off the underside of this river,” Poulsen advised KSL TV in an interview Tuesday night. “As quickly as I hooked it up and we began reeling it in, the sturgeon got here up and it jumped out of the water and it was like one thing on ‘Shark Week.’ It was large. We have been like, ‘holy crap,’ and the information began freaking out as a result of he knew it was a extremely large one.”

It WAS a extremely large one — 10-feet, 4-inches lengthy, sufficient to shatter the earlier Idaho state report.

“As a result of it was 48 inches round and the way lengthy it’s, they’ve received a reasonably good thought how a lot they weigh and he stated it might be someplace round 600 kilos,” Poulsen stated. “It was so large that three individuals have been holding the underside jaw, so it was simply large.”

Due to state legal guidelines, Poulsen caught the sturgeon and launched it shortly after it was measured.

He stated it was fairly the journey — additionally catching two 9-footers, an 8-footer and a 7-foot-long fish.

“Normally I catch the littlest fish out of all people, so I received actually fortunate this time,” Poulsen stated. “This was by far the most effective fishing expertise I’ve ever had and never even shut.”