It seemed like a bold prediction 10 years ago, but time is proving it true. When lake sturgeon were restocked in Big Stone Lake in 2014, it was estimated that in five years' time, some of the fish ...

The 2025 sturgeon spearing season has gone down as the fifth-best harvest in the last 10 years. By comparison, 2024 was the ...

The Lake Winnebago system's sturgeon spearing tradition saw several sturgeon over 170 pounds, but one 2010 catch is the only ...

LAKE WINNEBAGO – Many sturgeon spearers persevered through water clarity, weather and access issues on the Lake Winnebago ...

Driving around Lake Winnebago, there are fewer and fewer shacks every day, but spearers taking to the ice continue to say that when you are able to find a good pocket of water clarity, it will stick ...

Each year, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources stocks approximately 4,000 seven-inch sturgeon fingerlings into Big Stone Lake. The stocking began 10 years ago and has continued each year ...

Hayley Herzig speared the 4th-largest sturgeon ever recorded in the Lake Winnebago, Wis. system with the prehistoric fish ...

Anglers can target and harvest lake sturgeon in Michigan only in designated waters during designated seasons. (Photo courtesy ...

After only 65 minutes of fishing, this year’s sturgeon season on Black Lake (in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties) ended at 9:05 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. There were 630 registered anglers ...

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 ...

The 2025 sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago began with successful catches and improved ice conditions compared to the previous year. Spearers brought in a total of 290 sturgeon over the ...

Michigan's lake sturgeon are protected, the DNR reminds anglers, and must be released immediately if caught by mistake.