I was busy inspecting a beer at the Anchor Pub in Everett yesterday when my landlord walked in with his laptop and showed me some amazing pictures of large numbers of stranded White Sturgeons out on the tidal flats of Port Susan at low tide yesterday. The pictures show scores of Sturgeon half in and out of a small tidal stream. Some of them were 10 or 12 ft long.

White Sturgeon is one of the most primitive fish found around here. It's the largest freshwater fish in North America and can get up to 20 ft long and weigh 1500 lbs. They can live up to 100 years. They are anadromous fish - living in salt water and estuaries and breeding in freshwater.

While I knew that monster sized Sturgeon lurk down in the Columbia River, I had no idea that such a number, and fish of such size made Port Susan and the Stillaguamish their home. Who knows what lurketh down in the murk of our local estuaries .


Jeff Gibson, enjoying nature's wonders down at

The Anchor Pub
1001 Hewitt Ave.
Everett Wa