Sturgeon, Lake Winnebago and spearers

Sturgeon spearing: Upriver Lakes near harvest caps, Lake Winnebago at 22% entering week 2
As of Feb. 16, the Lake Winnebago system has seen 640 successful spearers so far, with Upriver Lakes getting closer to its harvest cap.
Sturgeon spearing: Tuesday’s harvest the lowest on Lake Winnebago for 2025 season
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 around for a good portion of the day,
Sturgeon spearing opening weekend saw 4th-largest fish, 3,340 shacks on Lake Winnebago
The Payne’s Point Bar & Grill registration station in Neenah processed the most sturgeon of the day for Lake Winnebago with 25 fish, followed by the Downtown Oshkosh station with 21. The Poygan station led the way for the Upriver Lakes with 53 sturgeon registered.
Snow continues to impact slow first half of sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago
Saturday marked the official halfway point to sturgeon spearing season on the Lake Winnebago System, and after an evening and full morning of snow, the slow season continued. Officials with the Wisconsin DNR stated that only 24 lake sturgeon were harvest from Lake Winnebago on February 15,
65 sturgeon taken on Winnebago system as 2025 spearing season hits one-week mark
The 2025 sturgeon spearing season reached its one-week mark Friday, and it was a better day for those who took to the ice on the Winnebago system.
'Fish of a lifetime': Woman spears 4th-largest ever sturgeon, bigger than her own body
Hayley Herzig speared the 4th-largest sturgeon ever recorded in the Lake Winnebago, Wis. system on Saturday with the ...
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Nearly 145 pound sturgeon speared as we enter final stretch of Wisconsin season
As the second weekend of the Winnebago sturgeon spearing season came to a close, 58 lake sturgeon were speared on Sunday, February 16. Officials with the Wisconsin DNR stated that ...
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Near-Record Sturgeon Pulled Through the Ice Was So Big It Took Two Spears to Land
“The sonar was most helpful, and with experience it’s easy to tell what a sturgeon looks like on a sonar screen compared to a big pike or other fish.” At 7:05 a.m. that morning, just five minutes ...
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Warm winter temps upended a popular fishing event in Michigan last year. This year it was back
After a historically warm winter last year canceled several events, Michigan’s sturgeon season came back in full swing ...
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Sturgeon spearing, Steelhead fishing, Bragging Board
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Remember when Ronald Grishaber snagged a 212-pound sturgeon in 2010? Here are Lake Winnebago's heaviest hitters.
The Lake Winnebago system's sturgeon spearing tradition saw several sturgeon over 170 pounds, but one 2010 catch is the only ...
Only 36 sturgeon speared Saturday, as Winter Storm Cooper blankets area with snow
The eighth day of sturgeon spearing season brought lower numbers of sturgeon speared with a total of just 36 throughout the ...