Speared 165lb Sturgeon

Story behind a 165lb sturgeon speared through the ice on Lake Winnebago in Feb. of 2010 bearsolis.com; Bear Solis Outdoors

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Sports

Tags:

• sturgeon;
• spearing;
• ice
• fishing;
• Lake
• Winnebago;
• wisconsin;
• fishing

[BearSolisOutdoors]

As stated below, it is legal to spear sturgeon in the state of Wisconsin. It is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years. About 12,000 people buy tags each year. Fish must be registered each day and once a harvest trigger is hit, the season is closed. If no triggers are hit, the season runs 16 days. Any sturgeon caught throughout the year via hook and line must be released. The population is controlled through spearing.

[ejhandler1]

@maildabradbass There are also very conservative quotas set for the male and female sturgeon and when one of these quotas are met, the season automatically ends at the end of the following day. Ron Bruch (WI DNR, biologist) has done wonders with the sturgeon management in this state, one of the very few things the Wisconsin DNR is doing right in this state.

[ejhandler1]

@maildabradbass You probably don't realize this, but the sturgeon fishery on the Wolf River system is probably one of the closely watched and highly managed fisheries in the upper midwest. These fish are no where near extinction and if you ask anyone who spears in WI, they will tell you the population is in much better shape than it was just 10-20 years ago. This is all thanks to the dollars brought in by license sales and all the volunteers who watch spawning grounds.

[MrPatient82]

catch and release!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maildabradbass]

its kinda sad because these fish are endangered. the females take 25 years before they start spawning and once they do they only spawn every 3-4 years. its going to take a long time to get the population up and this really isnt helping

[guitarplayingcat]

Spearing sturgeon? Seems wrong. Very wrong. Sturgeon are not good for eatting.. caviar maybe, and but even I frown upon that.

[ripstik69]

@insomdob you obviously don't know know crap about fishing. Spearing is very fun and challenging and people also eat sturgeon MORON!!!!

[insomdob]

use a rod and reel morons why kill all those nice big fish for nothing.

[Damico07]

@tristancooper1997 yes thats why 8-10 thousand people go out there every year because its illegal.....