This makes 1,298 lake sturgeon harvested for the entire Winnebago system so far this season. The Pipe registration station continues to have the highest daily harvest, with 11 fish and 354 fish for the season. One of the nine fish was the 90.7 lbs., 77.9-inch F1 female speared by Russel Gulig. Lake Winnebago Sturgeon Spearing. Join group. Events. For all the people who spend countless hours sitting in a shanty and staring into the green water of Lake Winnebago seeking the elusive Sturgeon.
Ice Fisherman Spears Massive 177Pound Sturgeon Field & Stream
The 2024 sturgeon spearing season will open at 7 a.m. Feb. 10 and close 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. Spearers head out on the ice at the start of the 2023 sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago Saturday, February 11, 2023, at Waverly Beach in Menasha, Wis. Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is preparing for the sturgeon spearing season opener on Feb. 11, giving spearers a chance to harvest Wisconsin's largest and oldest fish species. With one of the largest lake sturgeon populations in North America, the Winnebago System supports an annual spearing season that. Spearing lake sturgeon on ice-covered Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin has a long and rich tradition. Jared Guelig, 22, of Fond du Lac has been spearing since he was 12 and his family has speared on Winnebago for 25 years. Guelig has taken several sturgeon over the years—including a 69-pounder—but the one he recently tagged on Feb. 17 is a true.
Sturgeon Spearing on Lake Winnebago
License: $20.00 Resident, $65.00 Non-Resident. radio, food, drink, camera. Spearing Information. The Winnebago system likely holds the largest natural sustaining lake sturgeon population in the world, and is used as an egg source for lake sturgeon re-introduction and rehabilitation projects throughout the fish's original North American range. The harvest caps for the 2022 spearing season were determined using the 2021 abundance estimates for the Winnebago System Lake Sturgeon population. We set harvest caps at 5% of the abundance estimates, and in 2021, we estimated there were 25,500 adult males and 15,000 adult females. The 2022 system-wide harvest caps were 400 juvenile females. 3:47. Sturgeon spearing season's opening weekend brought in more than a quarter of the total sturgeon needed to meet the harvest cap in Lake Winnebago — and around 71% of the Upriver Lakes. The sturgeon spearing season runs for 16 days or until any pre-set harvest caps determined by the DNR are met, whichever comes first. This year the season opened Feb. 9 and ran until Feb. 24 on Lake Winnebago. But the "Lake Winnebago system" also includes the Upriver Lakes of Lakes Butte des Morts, Winneconne and Poygan.
Lake Winnebago Sturgeon Spearing Headquarters Opening Day Sturgeon
OSHKOSH - The Lake Winnebago ice whisperer has some good news and some bad news for people looking forward to sturgeon spearing season and other winter events on the lake. First, the good news. James Gishkowsky speared a massive 177-pound, 79.9-inch (that's 6-foot-8 for you) female sturgeon from Lake Winnebago Tuesday. This is the seventh-largest fish ever speared throughout the system.
Huge sturgeon speared in Lake Winnebago system. FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. (WFRV) - Big, small, or in between for every sturgeon there's a fish tale. Oshkosh's Jim Gishkowsky has a good case. The group is on Lake Winnebago for this trip! We join John and Logan Lynch (and family) for the opener of the 2021 Sturgeon Spearing season in Wisconsin. The group is on Lake Winnebago for this trip!
Lake Winnebago DNR hosts hearing on technology for sturgeon spearing
James Gishkowsky of Black Wolf registered the largest sturgeon of the season and the seventh-largest ever caught in the Lake Winnebago system Tuesday at Wendt's on the Lake in Van Dyne. During an. With the sun shining and mild temperatures with a high in the 40s, excitement was in the air across the Lake Winnebago System for opening day of the 2023 sturgeon spearing season. Spearer after.
