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

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 ...

LAKE WINNEBAGO (WLUK) -- Taking to the frozen waters and doing some sturgeon spearing is a unique part of "How WI Live" in Northeast Wisconsin, and on parts of Lake Winnebago, the race was on ...

The sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago begins Feb. 8 and lasts for 16 days, unless harvest caps are met sooner. Water clarity is lower than ideal this year, averaging 5.35 feet ...

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 ...

LAKE WINNEBAGO, Wis. (WBAY) - The DNR is reporting a total of 169 lake sturgeon speared on Saturday. That number is composed of 19 juvenile females, 57 adult females, and 93 males. Despite the ...

Thousands of spearers out on Lake Winnebago Friday prepare for the start of the Sturgeon Spearing Season. After last year’s poor ice conditions, many are excited to be back on the ice Chainsaws ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is preparing for the sturgeon spearing season, which open on the Winnebago System on Saturday, Feb. 8. With one of the largest lake sturgeon ...

The National Weather Service forecast for Fond du Lac for Saturday — the first day of sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago — calls for a chance of light snow in the morning, then light snow in ...