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 ...

The first fish was speared within three minutes of the 8 a.m. start time, and after only 17 minutes, the season was over.

On Feb. 9, 12-year-old Kolby Worth successfully speared his first fish on the upriver lakes with a 21.1-pound, 47.5-inch male ...

Sturgeon spearing season is here and officials with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources say that after opening ...

The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining lake sturgeon population in the urban river that runs up the northeast side of ...

The goal is to restore a wild, self-sustaining lake sturgeon population in the urban river that runs up the northeast side of ...

Wisconsin sturgeon spearing season opened Saturday on the Winnebago system, and the DNR said thousands of spearers took the ...

The Michigan sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake ended after 17 minutes when the quota of six fish was reached.

Lake sturgeon were found in relative abundance in Lake Michigan and nearshore waters of Milwaukee when European immigrants settled the area. However, the fish were extirpated over much of their ...

Several male sturgeon reared at Riveredge have returned to the river as adults. But since it takes about 20 years for female sturgeon to achieve maturity, no sturgeon spawning activity has been ...