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Conditions fluctuated over the course of the first week, including wet and heavy snowfall and an increase in open water on Lake Winnebago in the first half of the week, followed by freezing ...
Jon Sauer (left) and his son Drew, both of Brandon, hold the 76-inch-long lake sturgeon Jon speared about 8 a.m. Saturday on Lake Winnebago. Saturday was the opening day of the 2024 spearing ...
Lake Winnebago. Lake Winnebago (Menominee: Wenepekōw Nepēhsæh, [1] Ojibwe: Wiinibiigoo-zaaga'igan, Oneida: kanyataláheleˀ[2]) is a shallow freshwater lake in the north central United States, located in east central Wisconsin. At 137,700 acres, it is the largest lake entirely within the state, [3] covering an area of about 30 miles by 10 ...
Sturgeon spearing opening day: Warm temperatures deter most sturgeon spearers from going on the ice. By comparison, last year's count on Lake Winnebago found more than 3,000 shanties, which had ...
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).
The bed of the Lower Fox River in Appleton during bridge repairs. The Fox River is a river in eastern Wisconsin in the Great Lakes region of the United States. It is the principal tributary of Green Bay, and via the Bay, the largest tributary of Lake Michigan. The city of Green Bay, one of the first European settlements in the interior of North ...
Ice shove. An ice shove (also known as fast ice, an ice surge, ice push, ice heave, shoreline ice pileup, ice piling, ice thrust, ice tsunami, [1] ice ride-up, or ivu in Iñupiat) is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake onto the shore. [2] Ice shoves are caused by ocean currents, strong winds, or temperature differences pushing ice onto ...
Watchdog Q&A: Duke Behnke answers your local government questions Fox River locks at a glance. The lower Fox River falls 168 feet from Lake Winnebago to Green Bay, comparable to the drop at ...