'Fish of a lifetime': Woman spears 4th-largest ever sturgeon, bigger than her own body
Hayley Herzig speared the 4th-largest sturgeon ever recorded in the Lake Winnebago, Wis. system with the prehistoric fish ...
Remember when Ronald Grishaber snagged a 212-pound sturgeon in 2010? Here are Lake Winnebago's heaviest hitters.
The Lake Winnebago system's sturgeon spearing tradition saw several sturgeon over 170 pounds, but one 2010 catch is the only one past 200 pounds.
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Sturgeon spearing opens, Winnebago system's fourth-largest ever
Big picture view Luck struck many spearers ... from FOX6 News By the numbers The Wisconsin DNR said a total of 169 lake sturgeon were speared throughout the system on this opening day: 19 juvenile ...
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Big Stone Lake sturgeon restoration project doing well 10 years in
There are occasional reports from anglers of catching sturgeon approaching 60 inches in length. Some reports indicate that ...
These ancient fish swam with the dinosaurs. They may not survive us.
For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living ...
Water quality, weather didn't slow sturgeon spearing in Wisconsin. 2025's final numbers.
LAKE WINNEBAGO – Many sturgeon spearers persevered through water clarity, weather and access issues on the Lake Winnebago ...
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2025's sturgeon harvest may have been average, but it's better than several recent years
The 2025 sturgeon spearing season yielded more than twice as many sturgeon as 2024. This is the 10th consecutive year the ...
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'Fish of a lifetime': Woman spears 4th-largest ever sturgeon, bigger than her own body
According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website, the Winnebago system holds one of the largest lake sturgeon populations in North America and one of just two where lake sturgeon ...
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Big Stone Lake sturgeon restoration project doing well 10 years in
When lake sturgeon were restocked in Big Stone Lake in 2014, it was estimated that in five years' time, some of the fish could reach 30 inches in length. Ten years later, the Minnesota Department ...