Hey Turbo, now I have a better idea where you're about. Generally I don't like fishing the Columbia west of the Umatilla/395 bridge. You are right about the pollution issue perhaps, but it is also more heavily fished, and I don't like so much pressure. If you can get up around the Hanford Reach, there are some nice hidey holes up there with big lunkers in them. I truly love smoked sturgeon, and I figure with all the crap I've been exposed to in my lifetime, well, whatever I might get from an occasional bite probably won't make matters much worse for me. Hell, just breathing the air in Baghdad for a week probably pollutes my body more than 10 years at the Nuc facility. They burn everything here, old batteries, tv sets, cars, plastic. It is the most common means of refuse control. It is so bad you can taste it. Maybe that is what's tearing my guts up.

Anyways, there are far too many people eating Columbia River Sturgeon for me to be too concerned about what may be in the fish now. If for no other reason, I will fish it and eat it just to [censored] off the local tribes more.