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Poor ice conditions caused a rocky opening weekend for the Winnebago system’s 16-day sturgeon spearing season, according to the Department of Natural Resources. “The ice this year is an anomaly,” DNR senior fisheries biologist Margaret Stadig said. Last Saturday opened the season with only an estimated 450 shanties on Lake Winnebago, down from roughly 3,000.