I'm gonna be (Shortnose Sturgeon fishing)

[MuskieBait]

Thanks for the correction. I thought you had 3 fair plus 2 fouled. I didn't count the fouls in the report.

After experiencing it, I think the fouls happened when the sturgeon are trying to find the baited hook, and accidentally gets fouled. My two fouls felt like the typical slow pull bite I felt from the other legit Shortnose bite that I had. I couldn't tell apart from a bite vs. a foul.

I certainly wasn't lifting the rod to check for a bite or using any jigging motion when the fouls came about. It was, as Joe said, about 30% foul hooked rate for me. In any case, I don't count those fish...but more of a curiosity why they get foul hooked.

I thought the 3 hooks rig was the issue...but seeing that you fouled hooked one as well, I don't think it really was the case. The double hook though...I cut that off after the first fish. It was just trouble waiting to happen. I still foul hooked them without any double hook on the line.

If I'm available next fall, I'd like to go back as well. I'll fish there until an Atlantic Sturgeon is caught!!!

Glad to have been part of this epic shit show Until next time