89 sturgeon speared during second weekend of spearing season

Cool but sunny weather allowed quite a few spearers to find success this weekend with 89 lake sturgeon harvested on the Lake Winnebago system.

The Southwest registration station continues to have the greatest harvest, with 21 of the 24 lake sturgeon speared Sunday on Lake Winnebago, and 24 of the 34 speared on the lake Saturday bringing the total for that station to 174 lake sturgeon for the season.

The largest lake sturgeon of the weekend also came from the southwest area of Lake Winnebago. It was a 113.3-pound, 68.8-inch, F2 female speared by Mark Kraus.

The Upriver Lakes harvested 31 lake sturgeon this weekend.

At the close of this second weekend for the 2024 Winnebago lake sturgeon spearing season, 353 lake sturgeon have been harvested system-wide, with 56 juvenile females, 116 adult females and 181 males.