Angler Catches Massive 3-Metre Sturgeon on Fraser River: One of the Largest Fish Ever Caught

January 28, 2025 TruthUSA

The morning was grey and cold, as days often are in January along British Columbia’s Fraser River. Yet Yves Bisson knew that there would be big sturgeon biting despite misgivings from his biologist client that day, the famous YouTube personality Forrest Galante.

To ease the chill, Bisson’s boat was stocked with hot coffee and doughnuts from Tim Hortons. He also had fish eggs to bait the great prehistoric bottom-feeders this river is world famous for.

Bisson, 50, a fishing guide with over two decades’ experience under his belt taking clients out on the protected river, waited on the gravelly shore beside his boat. His clients that morning, Galante and his assistants, soon arrived. Dressed for the weather, the men shook hands and then set out on the water.

“Our winters are usually around three to six degrees during the day,” Bisson told The Epoch Times.

He mentioned that Galante, being a scientist, had surmised that big fish didn’t bite in the winter, and even doubted Bisson’s expertise as a guide. Nevertheless, he promised Galante the “biggest fish he’s ever seen.”

The sturgeon not only bit, but later that day there was a double-header—two massive fish took the fishing lines at the same time.

Heading upstream, they boated an hour north of Chilliwack and Hope, then got warmed up by snagging several juvenile sturgeon and releasing them. Killing sturgeon from the Fraser River is illegal. They tagged the juveniles, because Bisson operates a program collecting data for government conservation efforts.