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A harvested fish must be registered at a designated registration station no later than 6 p.m. the day after you caught the fish. 2024 Lake Sturgeon Registration Stations [PDF] Angling Opportunities. There are angling opportunities for hook and line sturgeon anglers in specific harvest areas in some of Wisconsin's larger river systems. Questions?
Sturgeon are living fossils, appearing first about 136 million years ago when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth. They have retained many primitive characteristics that have been lost or modified in other modern-day fishes. Nineteenth-century commercial fishermen considered them a nuisance for tearing their nets, and they slaughtered them ...
A giant among Wisconsin's inland freshwater fishes, the bottom-dwelling lake sturgeon is a living fossil - a relic from the Middle Ages of fish evolution. This ancient species made its first appearance about 100 million years ago in the Upper Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era, just about the time that the dinosaurs made their abrupt exit ...
Sturgeon spawning. From mid-April to early May, Lake Sturgeon travel upstream to their spawning grounds, giving the public a prime opportunity to see these ancient ones up close. Sturgeon spawning is dependent on water temperature and flow. During seasons when water flow is high and water temperatures rise slowly, spawning begins when the water ...
The 2024 sturgeon spearing season will open on Feb. 10 at 7 a.m. and close on Feb. 25 unless one of the harvest caps is reached earlier. Spearers can fish from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. each day the fishery is open and is required to register their fish at a DNR-operated registration station by 2 p.m. of the same day the fish is harvested.
Description: The shovelnose sturgeon is similar to the lake sturgeon in that its body is angular (5 sided) and torpedo-shaped with 5 rows of bony plates (called scutes): 14-19 dorsal plates, 38-47 lateral, 10-14 ventrolateral. However, the shovelnose sturgeon's body is much more elongated. Adult fork length (tip of snout to fork in the tail) is ...
Since this annual survey began in 2013, 75 juvenile lake sturgeon from the Lake Michigan rehabilitation project have been captured. They ranged from 1-6 years old and 12”-34” long. On average, a juvenile lake sturgeon stocked as part of the program grows 4.5” per year. After age 6, juvenile lake sturgeon commonly seek habitat outside of ...
Lake Sturgeon hook and line season. Wisconsin Fishes: Sturgeon. Wisconsin's Lake Sturgeon Management Plan [PDF] Lake Sturgeon: Fact Sheet [PDF] Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. 101 S. Webster Street PO Box 7921. Madison, WI 53707-7921. Call 1-888-936-7463 (TTY Access via relay - 711) from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Secretary's Office.
South Fork Flambeau River. Jump River below the North and South Forks. Menominee River above Grand Rapids Dam (WI/MI Boundary Water) Lower Wisconsin River below the Wisconsin Dells Dam. St. Croix River below St. Croix Falls (WI/MN Boundary Water) Lake sturgeon harvest areas [PDF 248KB]
In 12 to 14 days, the fry (newly hatched fish) are one inch long and have fully developed mouths and barbels. A female sturgeon reaches sexual maturity when she is 24 to 26 years old and about 55 inches long, and will spawn once every four, five, or six years thereafter.