Largest Lake Sturgeon Ever Caught

2015-10-30 For that reason the IGFA world record for a white sturgeon stands at only 468 pounds.
Largest lake sturgeon ever caught. What is the largest fish ever caught in Lake Michigan. More from Wide Open Spaces. Big Bertha is the nickname of the 10-foot Kootenay white sturgeon that weighs over 350 pounds roughly the size of a full-grown female alligator.
Worldwide there are 29 species of sturgeon. The fish was 875 inches long and weighed more than 240 pounds. In 1885 a maximum of 86 million pounds were harvested of which 52 million pounds came from Lake Erie.
Sturgeon which return each spring to spawn in the streams and rivers in which they were born found tributaries. It weighed 300 lbs. It is believed to be the largest lake sturgeon ever caught in the US.
This was a Kaluga sturgeon which is the largest variety of sturgeon. More from Wide Open Spaces. As of 2012 the recognized world record for the largest sturgeon caught by man is a 1360 pound fish caught in the Heilongjiang River in the town of Tongjiang.
MONSTER Sturgeon Caught on Shasta Lake. The waters in Michigan have produced some monster fish as the 10 biggest fish on record show. I was expecting a massive tide to peak around midnight and boy was it big.
58-pound Great Lakes Muskellunge. Its age is estimated between 80 and 100 years and its the largest and oldest fish of its kind ever caught. 2016-08-01 During the heavy fishing years from 1879 to 1900 the commercial catch of lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes averaged over four million pounds.