Pine Point Sally stretches six feet or more and weighs in at about 100 pounds with no teeth. "Sally" regularly frightens visitors to the Crane Lake area with her unpredictable leaping antics. Sally was last spotted during the summer of '99 as a shore fisherman at Pine Point Resort hooked into the giant sturgeon. The powerful fish threatened to stip all the line from the man's reel until the resort owner put the man on his pontoon boat so they could follow beast as it coursed around the bay. They played the fish for nearly an hour, bringing it to within three feet of the boat before "Sally" whipped her tail and broke the line...allowing her to tantalize another fisherman on another day. 

Sturgeon are a gourmets delight whether they are smoked or boiled. In fact, the children of commercial fishermen in the Crane Lake area back in the early 19-hundreds enjoyed sturgeon row sandwiches much like today's children enjoy peanut-butter and jelly. 
Contact: Cathy Erickson 218-993-2311
John Knox 218-993-2333

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