(WLUK) -- Sunday marking the final day of the 16-day-long sturgeon spearing season for the Lake Winnebago system. A total of 943 fish were harvested across the Lake Winnebago and Upriver Lake ...

In 2012, a female sturgeon caught on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin measured more than seven feet three inches long and weighed 240 pounds. These freshwater behemoths are also extremely long-lived.

Hunter Minor from Elko, Minnesota came with his grandfather from Stockbridge and they were able to spear their first fish on Lake Winnebago. The fish was a 37.8-pound, 56.9-inch, M1 male.

LAKE WINNEBAGO – Past the halfway point of the sturgeon spearing season, this year's harvest caps have a way to go. As of Feb. 16, the Lake Winnebago system has seen 640 total successful ...

QUINNEY (WLUK) -- As the final weekend of the 2025 sturgeon spearing season approaches, experts say the ice on parts of Lake Winnebago is in relatively good condition, and along the eastern ...

WISCONSIN (WISN) — The 2025 Winnebago System sturgeon spearing season has ended. According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, on Feb. 23 on Lake Winnebago, seven juvenile females ...