We are going to take a break from the normal hard hitting news and talk about what a NHL star caught while he was on vacation with his dad.
St. Louis Blues defenseman Nick Leddy seems to have an aura of excellence wherever he goes. The former #16 overall 2009 NHL Draft Pick won a Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks in 2013, fulfilling every hockey player’s dream.
Nick Leddy and his father Mike have made fishing with Sturgeon Slayers on the Fraser River in British Columbia an annual tradition. When it comes to sturgeon fishing, there’s no better place to catch record-sized white sturgeon, and there’s no better guide outfit than Sturgeon Slayers, whose reputation speaks for itself.
Just last year, Nick Leddy caught his second “fish of a lifetime,” any white sturgeon measuring 10 feet or more from fork to tail. Now, in an impressive repeat performance, Leddy has landed his third 10+ foot white sturgeon while fishing with Sturgeon Slayers.
To put this in perspective, a fully grown moose measures 7.9 to 10 feet in length. The fish Leddy caught measured over 10 feet from tip to fork, meaning it would easily dwarf a fully grown moose and even surpass the height of a polar bear standing on its hind legs (9.9 feet)!
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The odds of one man catching three white sturgeon each measuring over 10 feet are incredibly slim. Nick Leddy must thank his lucky stars—or perhaps his lucky loons and maple leaves, given the Canadian setting—for defying the odds and landing three ‘fish of a lifetime’ in nearly as many years.
In the U.S., fish are measured by their total length, but in Canada, they measure tip-to-fork, so what’s called ‘10 feet’ in Canada would be considered considerably longer in the United States. All sturgeon fishing on the Fraser River is catch and release, so this majestic fish was sent back into the river to continue its journey.
