(WLUK) -- The 2021 sturgeon spearing season is now officially in the books after Sunday. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said 50 fish were speared on Lake Winnebago Sunday ...

STOCKBRIDGE (WLUK) -- The 2021 sturgeon spearing season is over, and by many accounts, it was a success. A long, slow-moving line of vehicles pulling shanties stretched across the Lake Winnebago ...

The sturgeon spearing season's second weekend came to a close with a systemwide harvest of 1,566 sturgeon, and a dropoff in harvest means the Lake Winnebago season could last the full 16 days.

Opening weekend of the sturgeon spearing season brought in around a quarter of the total sturgeon harvest caps in Lake Winnebago, but up to about half of the Upriver Lakes harvest caps, with a ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - The sturgeon spearing season is nearing an end on upriver lakes of the Winnebago System. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the harvest was just shy of the ...

About 42,000 sturgeon are in the Winnebago system, and this year’s harvest limits in Lake Winnebago for the sturgeon spearing season are capped at 430 juvenile females, 950 adult females and ...

More than 12,000 sturgeon spearing licenses were sold for the upcoming season. While that number of spearers isn’t out of the ordinary, how the season unfolds won’t be entirely the same this year.

Money raised from sales of sturgeon spearing licenses is ear-marked to stay local and help manage the fishery. About 12,000 licenses were sold this year, on par with recent history.

The unique nature of sturgeon spearing means the community learns from each other and gives their best home-spun ideas and specially designed spears. ... In 2021, Derksen speared his first sturgeon.