Forums36
Topics38,561
Posts523,794
Members17,056
|
Most Online3,583 Jan 15th, 2020
|
|
 Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 44
|
OP
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 44 |
I am working on a house on ottertail lake in Mn. It’s a large lake in Mn. The dnr started to stock some sturgeon in 1997 and again in 2002 and I believe yearly after that. I check their recent gill net catches and fish are over 50” now!!! Has anyone every stocked these in a pond? And would they survive, I have read that they migrate a lot. Just curious if this has been tried before.
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 13,645 Likes: 40
Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker
|
Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 13,645 Likes: 40 |
Stocking lake sturgeon in ponds? Where would one get them except from the DNR or US Fish and Wildlife???
Last edited by Bill Cody; 10/06/19 01:03 PM.
Keep This Forum Viable, Read Pond Boss Magazine - America's Journal of Pond Management
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Jan 2019
Posts: 89
|
Joined: Jan 2019
Posts: 89 |
There would be no source to purchase lake sturgeon. Surely someone has thrown one in a pond, but I'd imagine it'd take very special conditions for them to survive in a small body of water such as a pond
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 2,607 Likes: 26
|
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 2,607 Likes: 26 |
There would be no source to purchase lake sturgeon. Surely someone has thrown one in a pond, but I'd imagine it'd take very special conditions for them to survive in a small body of water such as a pond I've heard that they are superb smoked, although smoking is not recommended by the Sturgeon General.
8ac, full 3/16. CNBG, RES, FHM 10/15; TP 5/16; FLMB 6/16. 100 12" NLMB & 1k GSH 10/17,L, 150# TP & 70 HSB 5/18. 1k PK 11/18. 100# TP 4/19, 200# RBT 12/19, 10k TFS 3/20, 100#TP 5/20, 25 HSB & 250 F1 9/20,L,180# RBT 12/20, 206,7
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Nov 2016
Posts: 208
|
Joined: Nov 2016
Posts: 208 |
You might consider paddlefish? They can survive in ponds.
4 acre pond 32 ft deep within East Texas (Livingston) timber ranch. Filled (to the top of an almost finished dam) by Hurricane Harvey 9/17. Stocked with FHM, CNBG, RES 10/17. Added 35lbs RSC 3/18. 400 N LMB fingerlings 6/18
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 33 Likes: 1
|
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 33 Likes: 1 |
Kansas state record 144 pound paddlefish was caught from a 5-acre farm pond in Atchison County.
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Jun 2018
Posts: 1,092 Likes: 34
|
Joined: Jun 2018
Posts: 1,092 Likes: 34 |
That would be crazy to catch in a pond. Where can you get stocker size of the paddlefish. I'm going to end up with 20 different kinds of fish in my little pond someday.
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 87 Likes: 3
|
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 87 Likes: 3 |
There is a hatchery in MO called Osage Catfisheries near Lake of the Ozarks that has paddlefish. I have direct experience in several lakes stocked for Paddlefish Ranching in 2002. They get very large. We see them to 75-80 pounds. Almost impossible to hook since you have to snag them. At high densities, they may mess with your forage base since paddlefish feed on the base food later, phytoplankton.
I Subscribe to Pond Boss Magazine
To Fish or Not to Fish? What a stupid question!
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 13,645 Likes: 40
Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker
|
Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 13,645 Likes: 40 |
Lake sturgeon are being raised and stocked but only by government agencies can you get the eggs, fry, or juveniles. If you don't kill them first these fish will outlive the pond owner; 80-150 yrs old. In my opinion lake sturgeon require better water quality 365 days than is present in most all ponds. Occasional low DO is likely to eliminate them. https://www.toledoblade.com/environment/...-events-near-me
Last edited by Bill Cody; 10/06/19 01:18 PM.
Keep This Forum Viable, Read Pond Boss Magazine - America's Journal of Pond Management
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 44
|
OP
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 44 |
A guy can dream, right? It would be so cool to have a few. In any case I am going to catch one of these dinosaurs some day soon.
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,065 Likes: 9
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,065 Likes: 9 |
The same day as the OP, this was in our local news: https://13wham.com/news/local/thousands-of-sturgeon-fish-released-into-genesee-riverIt is a big deal around here, as they were very rare for a while. The local Seneca Park Zoo has some in aquariums, so they may do OK in contained bodies of water, but I would be concerned of their appetite when they get larger. To support a fish that size would require a lot of food.
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 12,042 Likes: 13
Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame 2014  Lunker
|
Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Hall of Fame 2014  Lunker
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 12,042 Likes: 13 |
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
|
|
|
 Re: Lake sturgeon
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,065 Likes: 9
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 2,065 Likes: 9 |
They eat a kinds of stuff, similar to catfish. I think the key difference is they will eat things like mussels, where I believe catfish will not. If they do in fact eat zebra mussels, that is a win-win!
Looking up Wiki, there are some species that get over a ton!
What I wonder is how they managed to raise 2000 of them.
|
|
|
Moderated by Bill Cody, Bruce Condello, catmandoo, Chris Steelman, Dave Davidson1, esshup, ewest, FireIsHot, Omaha, Sunil, teehjaeh57
|
Bowfin
by Steve_ - 03/08/21 08:21 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ID?
by Quixotic, February 7
|
|
|
|
|
|