What do professional hockey players do on their day off? For Winnipeg Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien, and left winger Matt Hendricks, they catch gigantic fish when they have a day off from the NHL.
Byfuglien and Hendricks hit the Fraser River in British Columbia during their day off. There they met up with Sturgeon Slayers for a guided fishing trip. The results are pretty impressive to say the least:
What do the @NHLJets do on a day off? They catch lifetime dinos with us? #SturgeonSlayers #CatchRecordRelease pic.twitter.com/8bsP79bXh7
— Sturgeon Slayers (@SturgeonSlayers) October 10, 2017
They ended up catching one monster of a white sturgeon.
The fish was “9-foot-9 to the fork of the tail. The total length would have been well over 10 feet, but we don’t measure full length (in British Columbia),” said Kevin Estrada, owner of Sturgeon Slayers.
They held on to the fish long enough for a quick photo op before releasing it so it could potentially make someone else’s day, or life, because a sturgeon that size is “definitively a lifetime fish,” says Estrada.
Dustin Byfuglien and Andrew Ladd landed an absolute monstrous sturgeon. #Jets pic.twitter.com/FzO2X46gep
— NHL EXPERT PICKS (@NHLexpertpicks) June 18, 2014
