Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

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Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by phishphool » Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:02 am

Last weekend at the Kosmos boat launch at Riffe Lake, we saw the carcass of a sturgeon that had been cleaned at the boat launch. Are there sturgeon in the lake?

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by ResQ » Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:52 am

Havent heard of sturgeon in there. Its deep as all get out but im sure its from a river somewhere and dumped.

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by rpm10 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:34 pm

I have seen sturgeon carcass at blue creek, well undersized too.

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by phishphool » Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:16 am

The one at Kosmos wasn't a big one either. Not sure if it would have been undersized or not, but definetly on the small side of legal.

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by Fishininja » Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:14 pm

might be out of Swafford pond. who knows what wdfw has put in there.

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by The Quadfather » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:04 pm

Not to take anyone's dreams away, but there was a similar happening as this one, a few years ago where someone fileted their sturgeon carcass from a Columbia trip, and then dropped it at a boat launch of some other lake.... Got everybody into a buzz about Sturgeon in that lake.
Who knows, maybe somebody is playing a trick on people. Or maybe you need to pull out the sturgeon gear at Riffe.

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by kevinb » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:11 pm

hard to say but I wouldn't be surprised if a sturgeon was cruising Riffe from either bucket(big bucket)bios or other methods. There's at least one sturgeon roaming Lake Tapps

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by phishphool » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:50 pm

Several years ago, a friend of mine had gone fishing out of Westport and caught a few nice Kings. On the way home, he had his wife let him out on the highway by Rimrock Lake and he walked down the highway with a couple of those salmon. People driving by would almost run off the road looking at those fish. LOL I am sure he tricked quit a few people into believing that those big fish came out of Rimrock. [biggrin]

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by bass kickin redneck » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:48 am

A buddy of mine was up there at the dam he said he seen a bunch of fish in schools and something that was about 5 feet long , this funny he just brought it up the other day
Shut up and fish

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by Ezlivn89 » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:56 am

kevinb wrote:hard to say but I wouldn't be surprised if a sturgeon was cruising Riffe from either bucket(big bucket)bios or other methods. There's at least one sturgeon roaming Lake Tapps

Say what? There is a sturgeon in tapps?

Have you seen it?
It wouldnt be called fishing unless you are always catching, best of luck!

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by rickydbasser » Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:35 am

A few years back I was bass fishing Alder Lake. In about ten feet of water I saw the white belly of a very large fish laying dead on the bottom. It looked like a shark, so finally I put a weighted hook down and snagged it. Turns out it was a salt water dog fish. Obviously, it was not native. How it got in the lake, only the Lord knows. But the answer may be the same for the suspect sturgeon.

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Re: Sturgeon in Riffe Lake?

Post by Dan360 » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:33 pm

They were put there by.......Aliens.
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