Michigan's 2026 sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake starts Feb. 7. The quota for the season is six fish with no minimum ...

The season will open at 8 a.m. on Feb. 7 on Black Lake in Cheboygan County. It will close after the sixth fish is harvested ...

A lot of anglers in the Upper Great Lakes Areas covet the muskellunge, calling them the kings of freshwater. But these anglers must not fish for lake sturgeon. Indeed, in Wisconsin, which has dubbed ...

Michigan wildlife managers, along with their counterparts in Wisconsin, are proposing to add a catch and immediate release season for lake sturgeon on the Menominee River. The Michigan DNR is also ...

Two Michigan lake sturgeon rehabilitation programs reached significant milestones this fall in the marathon effort to restore the Great Lakes giants. In Cheboygan County's Black Lake, home to a short ...

The rare annual opportunity to catch a prehistoric lake sturgeon on Black Lake in Cheboygan County is scheduled to begin at 8 ...

COLUMBUS – Reintroduction efforts for state-endangered lake sturgeon expanded to the Cuyahoga, Sandusky, and Scioto rivers in 2025, according to t (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. As part of a large, ...

The deadline to purchase a license for sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago is Oct. 31, 2025. The Upriver Lakes fishery is separate and managed by a limited lottery (500 spearers), and has already been ...

The traditionally shortest fishing season in the State of Michigan – the one for Black Lake sturgeon - will open Feb. 7.