Sports Desk, Paris// Sheboygan, Wis. (QP) --
The fish ardently wish shade slipped under the ice, making flicker Darren Horness. “I skimmed ice in addition to hole, and any I sudden thought that I caught movement a little, and I owed kind of catch a stage behind,” said Horness, 36, of the plantation of Howards. “The fish really went up in the hole, I just could see part of it and could say it that was a kind of nice fish, but I did not have any idea how large it was really. ”
102 pounds, sturgeon of 72 inches were almost as long as it was large.
Sturgeon of spearhunt of approximately 8.000 fishermen every year on the lake Winnebago and its lakes of upriver. In its seven years, Horness had not come close to a fish which large.
It had cut a hole by 16 inches of ice on the lake Winnebago, and the sturgeon arched by him, concerned with six inches of surface. Horness heard the blow of scraper postpones fish the ice on the lower edge of the hole.
“I had to obtain downwards on my knees and I had to transpierce almost horizontal because it was so high upwards in the hole,” it said. “I did not know good a blow which I had on top because it was of a so strange jet. ”
The lance placed in the tail of fish, with approximately two feet of the end. In minutes, the female was tiring and had moved rather narrowly on surface for Horness to see what it had caught.
“My knees right almost buckled it because it looked at if humongous in water,” said.
Approximately a dozen 700 fish transpierced up to now this year the main thing 100 pounds, said Ron Bruch, a biologist of sturgeon with the State Department of the natural resources. The season continues until Feb 25 or when the limit of harvest is reached.
Gary Hilbert d' Fond of the Lake caught the heaviest sturgeon of the year up to now Saturday on the lake Poygan. The female weighed 139 pounds of 1/2 and was 71 inches of 1/2 length. Mike Freund of the white lake transpierced 111 books, female of 72.5 inches on the lake Winnebago Sunday.
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