The 2025 sturgeon spearing season yielded more than twice as many sturgeon as 2024. This is the 10th consecutive year the Lake Winnebago system has lasted the full 16-day season. The Upriver Lakes ...

LAKE WINNEBAGO (WLUK) -- With about 12,000 license holders expected to take part during the season, spearing sturgeon is part of "How WI Live" in Wisconsin -- and on Lake Winnebago, the 16-day ...

Successful spearers on the Lake Winnebago system so far number 481, despite poor water clarity and weather. The Pipe registration station on the southeast part of Lake Winnebago is closed, as the ...

(WLUK) -- Sturgeon spearing continued to be slow Tuesday, with a little more than four dozen sturgeon speared on Lake Winnebago and the upriver lakes. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds spearers interested in harvesting a lake sturgeon from Lake Winnebago for the 2026 sturgeon spearing season to purchase their license before ...

SINCE 1880. VERY LONG TIME WISCONSIN STURGEON SEASON IS IN THE BOOKS. THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES REPORTS 943 FISH WERE HARVESTED OVER THE 16 DAY SEASON. THEY SAY NO HARVEST CAPS WERE MET ON ...

LAKE WINNEBAGO – A beloved local tradition is nearing its end for the season, with its final day Feb. 23. As of Feb. 20, 752 spearers have come off the ice victorious throughout the Lake Winnebago ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - The following information is from the DNR: Driving around Lake Winnebago, there are fewer and fewer shacks every day, but spearers taking to the ice continue to say that when ...

(WFRV) – With just one day remaining in the Winnebago system for sturgeon spearing season, the sun finally showed up with ...

FOND DU LAC – The Lake Winnebago system's sturgeon spearing tradition has produced some massive prehistoric fish, and some records haven't been broken in about 15 years. The 2010 spearing season was ...