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More recently, Lake Winnebago's season has lasted the full 16 days since 2016, and while 2017, 2020 and 2024 have fallen on bad luck, they still haven't topped 1969 or 1973. More history: It ...
Jason Reinke speared a 104.3-pound, 68.9-inch female on Lake Butte des Morts Saturday, and Jacob Disterhaft brought in a 110.7-pound, 71.2-inch sturgeon on Lake Winnebago Sunday.
List of fishing records in the state of Wisconsin. All records are fish caught by use of hook and line and are handled by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. They are up to date as of May 20, 2021. All fish caught were in the waters of the state of Wisconsin.
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 spearfishing season for lake sturgeon is in February. 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]
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The fish, tagged and released by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crew, was about 7 feet long, one of the largest lake sturgeon caught in United States.
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 ...