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Location: Greenfield, WI | We were out today with great friends on Lake Winnebago watching them sturgeon spearing (except without sturgeon). It was a great day. We didn't see any sturgeons in the water but we saw an incredible number of sturgeons at the registration station, including one at 111 pounds.
I understand that Lake Winnebago jumps up into the top ten highest population when compared to Wisconsin cities.
It is a Wisconsin tradition and spectacle!
In many ways it is much like deer hunting with everyone having stories of the "big one" that they got as well as the bigger one that got away! |
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Location: Appleton,WI | We saw a full size bus out there |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | One thing I noticed at the registration station was that the spearing community as a whole seems to exaggerate, instead of being incredibly truthful and honest about all aspects of their sport as we muskie fishermen are!
How bizarre to see so many sportsmen devoted to all aspects of one kind of fish!..........Wait a minute.....that sounds like muskie fishermen!? |
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Location: WI | My buddies uncle got a 140 pounder yesterday on the east side.
Not sure the draw of sturgeon. I've tried it smoked still tastes like crap in my opinion. Must be the hunt for a monster. Hate to pay 12-14 dollars a foot to get one of those mounted. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | heard the season may be over after todays look and throw session. quota is close to goal already. |
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Location: The desert | The absolute best managed sport by the WDNR. There isn't anything close. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | but they do it with a spear mike!! |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Yesterday was at or exceeded 50% of the quota, and with these high skies I can't imagine the season going past today. |
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| As Pointer Pride states, one of the great success stories. If you have fished the Wolf during the walleye run, you know a big part of the success is the many volunteers who fan out during the sturgeon spawning season to prevent poachers. Whether there is really a volunteer, many times a retired DNR employee, behind every bush with binoculars looking for poachers is not important. What is important is that those would would poach these pre historic fish, think there darn well might be someone there, watching, ready to bust them.
I live near Winnebago, but don't spear. However, every year I try and make it to a place outside of New London where you can see them staging to spawn. It is quite a sight. Couple years ago we were there and there were a good number up on the rip rap, 40 to 50" fish, with a couple larger ones. Suddently the folks on the bank all started to point towards the middle of the river. There was a giant swimming right down the middle of the river. Looked to be a foot or more across the back and well over 80". I have seen a 70"+ fish registered that went over 150# and this fish dwarfed it. A couple guys who had anchored in the river with a 12 ' boat fishing for walleyes, quickly pulled their anchor and moved out of the way. I think they were worried about getting rammed ;>). |
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Location: Shoepack | North of 8 - 2/9/2014 2:38 PM
As Pointer Pride states, one of the great success stories. If you have fished the Wolf during the walleye run, you know a big part of the success is the many volunteers who fan out during the sturgeon spawning season to prevent poachers. Whether there is really a volunteer, many times a retired DNR employee, behind every bush with binoculars looking for poachers is not important. What is important is that those would would poach these pre historic fish, think there darn well might be someone there, watching, ready to bust them.
I live near Winnebago, but don't spear. However, every year I try and make it to a place outside of New London where you can see them staging to spawn. It is quite a sight. Couple years ago we were there and there were a good number up on the rip rap, 40 to 50" fish, with a couple larger ones. Suddently the folks on the bank all started to point towards the middle of the river. There was a giant swimming right down the middle of the river. Looked to be a foot or more across the back and well over 80". I have seen a 70"+ fish registered that went over 150# and this fish dwarfed it. A couple guys who had anchored in the river with a 12 ' boat fishing for walleyes, quickly pulled their anchor and moved out of the way. I think they were worried about getting rammed ;>).
fun. thanks for sharing. |
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Anybody Lake Winnebago Sturgeon Spearing Today?