Wisconsin DNR closes Upriver Lakes sturgeon spearing season
By FOX6 News Digital Team
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A man speared one big fish, part of the Wisconsin DNR s sturgeon spearing season.
FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. - Sturgeon spearing season on the Upriver Lakes Poygan and Butte des Mortes is closed, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced Saturday, Feb. 20.
Upriver Lakes spearers with unfilled tags can no longer harvest sturgeon. The Lake Winnegabo harvest will continue until those caps are reached.
The DNR reported 156 fish harvested Saturday on the Winnebago System. Total, 364 were harvested on the Upriver Lakes this season.
WINNECONNE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) â Frigid temperatures marked day three of the 2021 sturgeon spearing season.
The campaign continues not only on Lake Winnebago, but also on the Upriver Lakes of Poygan, Winneconne, and Butte des Morts.
At the drive-thru sturgeon registration station at Marble Park in Winneconne, Nicholas Duesterbeck is celebrating what he calls the catch of a lifetime, so far.
âItâs 37.5 inches, and just a touch over 10 pounds.â
Duesterbeck tells FOX 11 he was getting ready to leave the shack on Lake Poygan, when the fish came through the hole.
âIâm about to grab the handle, my dad says, whoa, whoa, right there. So I turn around and the fish comes in, sits right on the bottom. It was there for five or ten seconds, kind of taking a look, if we think heâs big enough.â