Here is an excerpt from the SF Chronicle Fishing Report, by Brian Hoffman, July 17, 08. Steve Talmadge, he of the Flash Fishing Charter Service that runs from the Jefferson Street line, went to Oregon's Columbia River with four other angler types late last month. They hired a sturgeon guide who works the water just below Bonneville Dam. They spent the first hour of their mornings catching shad to about 5 pounds, stood in genuine awe as the guide cut notches in the dead shad, half-hitched line down the entire fish, fixed a cannonball weight of 38 or 42 ounces to the main line (80-pound braided, no mono top shot), cast out with basically a tuna rod, and let the whole mess crash and drift some 80 feet down. The first day, they landed six sturgeon, with the smallest 7 feet and the largest 9 1/2 feet and nearly 300 pounds. Second day, the count was seven, with the "smallest" again about 7 feet and 160 pounds and the largest well over 9 feet and easily 350 pounds. Third day, they begged mercy from the torn muscles of their arms.