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

With far better ice conditions than last year, Battle on Bago returns to the Lake Winnebago system for the 18th year.

The sturgeon spearing season opens on the Lake Winnebago system Feb. 8 as fishing clubs monitor ice, but the water clarity is ...

LAKE POYGAN (WLUK) -- The 2025 16-day Sturgeon Spearing season kicked off Saturday morning. Good Day Wisconsin spent opening day out on Lake Poygan with a group of anglers. The Sturgeon Spearing ...

Lake Poygan Sportsman's Club reported a large crack impeding access at Indian Point, for example. The Payne’s Point Bar & Grill registration station in Neenah processed the most sturgeon of the ...

That includes the Upriver Lakes of Poygan, Winneconne, and Butte des Morts. Pickup trucks parked next to shanties off the northern shoreline of Lake Poygan. Inside, spearers are waiting.

Sturgeon spearing will kick off its 2025 season in Wisconsin Feb. 8. Here's what to know about this year's regulations and ...

The 2025 sturgeon spearfishing season began on Friday in Wisconsin, and every town off the lake is buzzing with anticipation to see what great monsters are brought out of the lake this year.

Congressmen reintroduce SPEAR Act, a bill intended to keep the lake sturgeon in Wisconsin from protections of the federal ...

The sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago begins Feb. 8 and lasts for 16 days, unless harvest caps are met sooner. Water clarity is lower than ideal this year, averaging 5.35 feet, which ...