Discussion in 'Detroit River and Lake Erie' started by mike the pike, Jul 13, 2010. Sturgeon can leap … We'd really appreciate it! Thanks for your patronage - Steve. Many off-site friendships have formed with others who share the same interests in the outdoors through the site. The sturgeon hit them as they were helping the friend take the boat out of the water near the Joe Anderson Boat Ramp in Fanning Springs. If you are boating on the rivers during the summer months, there’s a good chance you could encounter a sturgeon jumping out of the water,” Krause said. All of a sudden a 6' sturgeon jumped complelety out of the water literally just 6 inches off the port side of my boat. In late 1999, we started our first message board. The sturgeon shot spinning out of the water like a spear, its gray flanks and white belly flashing, before crashing back and vanishing.
The management works very hard to make sure the community is running the best software, best designs, and all the other bells and whistles. Lake sturgeon are known to perform a peculiar act called porposing, meaning jumping out of the water. (You must log in or sign up to reply here. Moments before, some enigmatic urge had … It was a marriage of my passions for the outdoors and the internet. My buddy was standing right next to this and was completely soaked by … ). Founded in 1999, Michigan-Sportsman.com started as a collection of links to Michigan related sites, and a series of manually edited blogs. Scientists think this may be a way to help prevent lamprey from adhering to the lake sturgeon as most of these fish are found to have several lamprey attached to them at any given time. Care to buy us a beer? The lake sturgeon can completely leave the water by jumping into the air. It was one of Michigan's first social networks. Sturgeons also known to have the unusual activity of jump out of the water almost 2 meters without clear reasons (Thorn, and Falgiani, 2013).

On a cold late May morning a couple of years ago, I was jigging walleye in the D with a buddy.