As the sturgeon spearing season rolls on, some of those taking to the ice are finding success.That includes the Upriver Lakes ...

LAKE WINNEBAGO – Sturgeon spearers are finding clear pockets of water and bringing in heavy catches to start the 2025 season.

For the first three days of the season, there have been 355 total sturgeon speared. With 118 males speared on the upriver ...

Congressmen reintroduce SPEAR Act, a bill intended to keep the lake sturgeon in Wisconsin from protections of the federal ...

LAKE POYGAN (WLUK) -- The 2025 16-day Sturgeon Spearing season kicked off Saturday morning. Good Day Wisconsin spent opening day out on Lake Poygan with a group of anglers. The Sturgeon Spearing ...

The 2024 Sturgeon spearing season ... thousands of spearers set up shanties on Lake Winnebago and the Upriver Lakes — Lake Poygan, Lake Poygan, Lake Winneconne and Lake Butte des Morts ...

The sturgeon spearing season opens on the Lake Winnebago system Feb. 8 as fishing clubs monitor ice, but the water clarity is ...

the rush to spear giant sturgeon in Cheboygan, Mich., is important to the local economy. The 78-pound sturgeon that Austin Dreifuerst caught during the 2025 sturgeon season on Black Lake.Credit ...

FOND DU LAC – As sturgeon ... Lake Winnebago, the caps are broken down to 280 juvenile females, 717 adult females and 1,002 males. For the Upriver Lakes — Butte des Morts, Winneconne and ...

An ancient gentle giant of the seas ... Butte des Morts, Poygan and Winneconne, along with the Fox and Wolf rivers, are home to one of the strongest sturgeon populations in the world.

The sturgeon ... from Lake Winnebago must be registered at one of the registration stations on Lake Winnebago: Any fish harvested from lakes Butte des Morts, Winneconne or Poygan must be ...

For the Upriver Lakes — Butte des Morts, Winneconne and Poygan — the caps ... to manage the Winnebago System sturgeon fishery. A fish harvested from Lake Winnebago must be registered at ...