Thousands of anglers come to the annual sturgeon spearing season in February on Lake Winnebago and beyond.

Hayley Herzig speared her first Wisconsin sturgeon in February. It's a near-record and one of the biggest sturgeon ever speared on Winnebago.

The spring catch-and-release sturgeon season on Rainy River has seen many big fish including one that measured more than 80-inches, according to Department of Natural Resources officials.

LAKE WINNEBAGO – Sturgeon spearers are finding clear pockets of water and bringing in heavy catches to start the 2025 season.

The lake sturgeon is the oldest and largest native fish species in North America’s Great Lakes. Lake sturgeons can grow huge. It’s not unusual to find one six feet long and 200 pounds.

Two anglers had a big day May 8 when they reeled in, measured, photographed and released huge fish – one caught a lake sturgeon, the other a flathead catfish – leading both to set the ...