Carson Buck of Haines thought he’d maybe caught a big sockeye when his subsistence net took a hit while fishing about 100 yards offshore Mount Riley in Chilkat Inlet last weekend.
But instead of a shiny salmon, he pulled up a green sturgeon, the first known catch of the lizard-looking whitefish on the Chilkat.
Buck, who grew up in Haines, said he immediately recognized the fish from time he spent in northern California going to…
