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

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

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

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

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

Opening day of sturgeon spearing season proved successful for dozens of spearers on Saturday, with a total of 169 speared ...

Spearers took to the ice for the first time this weekend for the start of sturgeon spearing season on the Lake Winnebago ...

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 ...

It’ll be good ice and no fishy business this year.

For Lake Winnebago, this year's harvest caps are 280 juvenile females, 717 adult females and 1,002 males, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. For the Upriver Lakes ...

With sturgeon spearing kicking off this weekend and other popular fishing activities in full swing on Wisconsin’s lakes and ...

One of Wisconsin’s long-standing traditions, sturgeon spearing, gets underway on Saturday. Spearers call this the best ice in the last decade.