If you plan on registering your fish there, please head to the next closest registration station. Then in her 50s, the lake began rumbling as the first fuel-injected snowmobile took to the ice in 1991. | On Wisconsin Outdoors with Dick Ellis While there are unlimited licenses available for Lake Winnebago, the Upriver Lakes fishery is managed by a preference point system and limited to 500 permitted spearers. Join F&S+ to read exclusive stories by your favorite writers. Most fish are consumed by the spearer, with smoking and frying being the two most common preparation techniques. It was a trial run for the new harvest cap system, during a time when spearing in the Upriver Lakes was limited to every two to five years. Tomorrow, the Neenah registration station will reopen. For up-to-date harvest information, visit our sturgeon spearing webpage. All it would take is a multi-yearabundance of gizzard shad fish, the sturgeon's fattiest food source, to "shake up" the record books,Ryan Koenigs wrote in the 2019 season summary from the DNR. The survey also asked about spearers' involvement in sturgeon management with the WCC or other committees, as well as general knowledge of lake sturgeon life history. Sturgeon spearing is a sport of contrasts: The cold air outside, the warmth of a propane flame inside; the blinding white of snow on the lake, the dark interior of the shanty; long hours. It was an F4 female measuring 75.6 inches. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources published their opening day report. Father and son duo Paul and Eli Muche both speared big fish during this snowy Thursday. Continue to be safe if you are headed back out tomorrow. Pipe continues to put up big registration numbers, with more fish registered today (18 fish) than the other shacks combined. This is it; today wrapped up the 2023 sturgeon spearing season! In Wisconsin, lake sturgeon inhabit the Mississippi, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior Drainage basins. The season on the Upriver Lakes is closed. The spears used are also hand-made by local vendors and come in all shapes and sizes. In 1979, the same year ESPN launched its cable network, the first successful efforts to propagate lake sturgeon artificially occurred. Minnows can be used provided they are in a sealed container. Because of this, only 261 fish were harvested throughout the system (42 juvenile females, 93 adult females and 126 males). Following the drawing, there is no deadline for those who are successful to purchase a license on the Upriver Lakes. This can be almost 30 additional pounds. The sale of sturgeon spearing licenses funds a variety of sturgeon management activities on the Winnebago system, such as successfully restoring lake sturgeon to the upper Wolf River in partnership with the the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. There are still 2 adult females left until the 90% trigger is activated or 10 more adult females until the 100% cap is reached on the Upriver lakes. The species is characterized by its heavy, torpedo-shaped body and thick armor arranged in five rows along its flanks and back. As neither of these fish were speared through the ice, however, Schroeder kept his record until 2004. One of the nine fish was the 90.7 lbs., 77.9-inch F1 female speared by Russel Gulig. I had another come through at 9 oclock and another at 9:30. Liv Halbach, his daughter studying fisheries at Stevens Point, was working the station as a volunteer with the DNR.

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