Whitefish Dunes State Park near Sturgeon Bay is the kind of place that makes you wonder if you’ve accidentally stumbled through a portal to coastal Maine or Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. But no, this is ...

Having traveled thousands of miles, white sturgeon of the Columbia River were to be their quarry. Growing to ten feet and ...

That’s Whitefish Dunes State Park for you – Door County’s best-kept secret hiding in plain sight near Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The name alone should give you goosebumps – Whitefish Dunes. It sounds ...

CHIPPEWA FALLS — Authorities have released the name of the woman who died in a watercraft accident on Lake Wissota. Chippewa County Sheriff Travis Hakes identified the victim as Elle Jo ...

The Best Bait and Rigs for Catching Lake Sturgeon Sturgeon are bottom feeders that prey on dead fish, mollusks, crayfish, worms and aquatic invertebrates. So you want to keep your bait on the ...

Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), the only sturgeon species found in the Great Lakes. By 1928, the total sturgeon harvest from all the Great Lakes fell to less than 2,000 pounds, according to ...

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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (XCEL ENERGY PRESS RELEASE) - With the fishing opener around the corner, anglers may find a few new hot fishing spots on Lake Wissota after two significant fish habitat ...

During a survey of Lake St. Clair last summer, the DNR captured and tagged a 6-foot, 3-inch lake sturgeon weighing 125 pounds. Staff estimated it could have been 80 years old.

Lake sturgeon are a protected species in Michigan and must be released immediately if caught. The fish are long-lived, slow to mature, and were overfished in the 1800s, leading to their threatened ...