After casting his line into the Old Man River for about 60 hours over several days with barely a nibble, Blair Murphy was starting to think he was cursed. "It was quite a battle," said Murphy, talking by phone, back at the river where he landed his sturgeon. Swim in from SaskatchewanMurphy caught his sturgeon, which he released back into the river, at the western edge of the fish's habitat, and he says you can see them in the Old Man River for only about a month each year. Murphy, an avid fisher, has caught a bigger sturgeon, but that was in the Fraser River in B.C. An avid fishermanHe fishes in the river not far from his Lethbridge home and in the pond up the hill that's even closer.

Source: CBC News June 04, 2020 19:23 UTC