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LAKE WINNEBAGO — When sturgeon spearing's opening weekend usually knocks out a large chunk of each season's harvest caps, 2024's harvest so far yielded just more than 100 fish.. With spearers ...
The population of lake sturgeon in the Winnebago System (lakes Winnebago, Butte des Morts, Poygan and Winneconne and the Fox and Wolf rivers) numbers about 35,000 adult fish and is among the ...
The season yielded fewer than 1,000 total sturgeon, 552 from Lake Winnebago and 295 from the Upriver Lakes, and the final four days came and went without a single harvest.
The first year of regulated sturgeon spearing was 1903, when an eight-pound limit was introduced. [12] All sturgeon spearing was banned from 1915 to 1931. The lake had the largest population of sturgeon in the United States in 2003. [12] The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources regulates the number of fish taken each year.
The Winnebago system, including Wolf and Fox Rivers and associated lakes, is home to the largest population of Lake Sturgeon in the world. The sturgeon which spawn annually in the springtime in the Wolf River and its parent, the Fox River, between approximately April 15 and May 5, as they swim upstream from Lake Winnebago. It is estimated that ...
The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), also known as the rock sturgeon, [7] is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skeleton, an overall streamlined shape, and skin bearing rows of bony plates on the sides and back.
The 2023 sturgeon season lasted 16 days on Lake Winnebago and 8 days on the Upriver Lakes. The DNR was involved Friday in a rescue of two people on Lake Poygan, according to DNR warden Chris Shea.
LAKE WINNEBAGO — With less than a week remaining for the sturgeon spearing season, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and spearers across the system are already calling 2024 a memorable ...