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

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

A combination of water resources and dedicated people have succeeded in helping lake sturgeon thrive while they have failed ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

WINNEBAGO COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — As the sturgeon spearing season rolls on, some of those taking to the ice are finding ...

The 2025 Winnebago System sturgeon spearing ... stations on Lake Winnebago, and any sturgeon harvested from the Upriver Lakes – Poygan, Butte des Morts or Winneconne – must be registered ...

Winneconne and Poygan — the caps are 70 juvenile females, 80 adult females and 250 males. Last year's harvest was impeded by poor ice conditions, resulting in a total harvest of 432 sturgeon. This ...

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