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Old 05-09-2011, 02:21 PM
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Default Huge Nsr Sauger


Huge nsr sauger i caught just before dark, they out up good fights, anyknow know the record, and this one was caught with and ugly random jiggs

baby sauger i caught as well

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Old 05-09-2011, 02:33 PM
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quik google and as far as i saw 6lb 2 ounces is biggest official...
which sounds pretty bogus...
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Old 05-09-2011, 02:41 PM
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yea, just looked at the records, alot of record fish are from the 1970s and 1980s which meens 1 thing people are not recording there catches, arctic grayling record is just 2 lbs really?? lol, walleye in pembina is 15.9lbs which is huge, and yea sauger is 6lbs, dam so close, i really hope we see some huge fish this summer and hope people bring cameras with them a tape measure and enjoy
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Old 05-09-2011, 02:49 PM
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Cool ....got any better pictures? That almost looks more like a walleye with screwed up coloring or maybe even a saugeye......Tail tells the story.
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Old 05-09-2011, 02:55 PM
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agreed good sir,
and quik question, in your opinion, whats the best way to target wallys? i try pickrel jigs with minnows and worms or a jighead with a big old black leach on but all i get are pike or gold eyes so far, i mean once in a blue moon I can pull out a wally but nothing consistent...
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Old 05-09-2011, 03:18 PM
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hey Oliver, never tried pickeral jiggs or worms, worms however do work great for sturgen, you will catch walleye on double tail jiggs, havent caught a pike in the nsr on a double tail jigg.

and i read in the regs that you can accually keep sauger, i wonder why as i only catch about 30 a year compared to countless walleye and pike, and yet i talk to people who never catch them which led me to think they are very rare in the nsr so they should probably relook this or do they want to get rid of sauger as to interbreeding with walleye?
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Old 05-09-2011, 03:25 PM
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Cool ....got any better pictures? That almost looks more like a walleye with screwed up coloring or maybe even a saugeye......Tail tells the story.
im thinking its a saugeye as well, looks a lil different

none the less nice fish
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Old 05-09-2011, 03:27 PM
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small one is a sauger, the big one looked different then the walleyes we were catching by the markings, thought it was a sauger
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Old 05-09-2011, 03:30 PM
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yea, just looked at the records, alot of record fish are from the 1970s and 1980s which meens 1 thing people are not recording there catches, arctic grayling record is just 2 lbs really?? lol, walleye in pembina is 15.9lbs which is huge, and yea sauger is 6lbs, dam so close, i really hope we see some huge fish this summer and hope people bring cameras with them a tape measure and enjoy
Canadian record for walleye is 22.25 lbs
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Old 05-09-2011, 03:34 PM
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that would be so sweet, going out today in a spot no one knows about, holding monsters, lets see what happens lol, the alberta record was caught in pembina river in 2000.
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Old 05-09-2011, 03:37 PM
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That is funny. I have been fishing the river for 15 years and I have only caught a hand full of sauger. or maybe I just never really knew the diffrence till lately.
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Old 05-09-2011, 03:42 PM
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i wonder why you can keep sauger though,as a member of the walleye family you wouild think release, for thoughs who keep fish down in the nsr you can keep unlimited suckers but lots of murcury in those bottom fish i would think. Tony i will catch a sauger for you tonight man.
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Old 05-09-2011, 04:30 PM
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i wonder why you can keep sauger though,as a member of the walleye family you wouild think release, for thoughs who keep fish down in the nsr you can keep unlimited suckers but lots of murcury in those bottom fish i would think. Tony i will catch a sauger for you tonight man.
There are a few senior citizens that visit a spot where i fish and ask us if they could keep the suckers.Apparently he pickles the fillets and claims that they taste great.
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Old 05-09-2011, 05:22 PM
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i wonder why you can keep sauger though,as a member of the walleye family you wouild think release, for thoughs who keep fish down in the nsr you can keep unlimited suckers but lots of murcury in those bottom fish i would think. Tony i will catch a sauger for you tonight man.
Was fishing along side two older chinese men afew weeks ago, they use suckers for in their words: "chinese herbal medicine soup", to each his own I guess.
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Old 05-09-2011, 05:57 PM
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I've caught many sauger out of Lac Du Bonnet Manitoba and some of the bigger sauger did have more faded dark splotches. Perhaps those bigger sauger I was catching were saugeyes. The fish in the top picture definitely seems to either be a sauger or a saugeye. The fish has the faint sauger marks and is the size of an average walleye. I'm thinking thats a saugeye for sure but I could be wrong.

As for a good tip to catch lots of sauger, just use a leech as bait. At Lac Du Bonnet, the leeches worked like magic while the minnows caught a few. When I switched to minnows again, the walleye started biting and the sauger were very few and inbetween.
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Old 05-09-2011, 06:04 PM
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Definitely a neat fish. I caught one in 2001 on the north shore of the 50th street footbridge, on the rocky shore on the east side that was just over 4 pounds.
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looking to break the record.....milk river alberta
The Milk near the Missouri is famous for big saugs
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Old 05-09-2011, 06:57 PM
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milk river, i hear there is a rare catfish in that river as well? that should not be handled
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Old 05-09-2011, 07:03 PM
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milk river, i hear there is a rare catfish in that river as well? that should not be handled
Yeah I have the fish of alberta book and apparently those catfish named "stonecats" have spiny dorsal fins that have a nasty irritant that can sting badly.
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i would love to fish it, not only do the spiney catfish bug me, the rattle snakes that rest up against the banks of the milk river bug me as well lol
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