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Sturgeon River. Sturgeon River is a 63.6-mile-long (102.4 km) [2] river in the U.S. state of Michigan, flowing mostly southward through Alger County and Delta County counties on the Upper Peninsula. The Sturgeon River rises as the outflow of Sixteenmile Lake in Alger County at 46°17′35″N 86°46′00″W and flows primarily southward into ...
The lake sturgeon uses its elongated, spade-like snout to stir up the substrate and sediments on the beds of rivers and lakes to feed. Four sensory organs (barbels) hang near its mouth to help the sturgeon locate bottom-dwelling prey. Lake sturgeons can grow to a large size for freshwater fish, topping 7.25 ft (2.2 m) long and 240 lb (108 kg).
Area code. 906 [a] The Upper Peninsula of Michigan —also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop —is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north ...
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106 mi (171 km) National Wild and Scenic River. Type. Wild, Scenic. Designated. March 3, 1992. The Sturgeon River is a 106-mile-long (171 km) [2] river in Baraga County and Houghton counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. 25.0 miles (40.2 km) of the river were added to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in 1992. [3]
Feb. 15—BLACK LAKE, Mich. — The unique sturgeon fishing season on the 10,000-acre body of water of the same name here in the extreme northeastern corner of the Lower Peninsula came off as ...
The 2024 season, which will run through Feb. 25, has so far yielded 353 total sturgeon — 249 from Lake Winnebago and 104 from the Upriver Lakes — as of Feb. 19.
Established. 1987. Governing body. U.S. Forest Service. The Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness is a 14,729-acre (59.61 km 2) unit within the Ottawa National Forest. It is located in Baraga County and Houghton County within the U.S. state of Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-28, which runs south of the unit in a west-to-east direction.