The Michigan DNR emphasizes following regulations for lake sturgeon during the winter ice fishing season to protect the ...

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

while sturgeon in Lake Michigan and the upper Mississippi River basin may be threatened. In lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario, as well as the St. Lawrence River basin, sturgeon are less imperiled. Most ...

Most sturgeon are caught with hooks and lines, but fishers can use spears at Black Lake, which is about 15 miles south of Lake Huron, and the far larger Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. Image Ivan ...