Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

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Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby Dewey » Wed Feb 18, 2015 1:39 pm

Top 3 fish so far..........weights are 127, 129 and 137 lbs in that order.

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Re: Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby SRWbowhunter » Wed Feb 18, 2015 1:40 pm

Those are some great fish! would love to try that sometime
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Re: Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby hunter_mike » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:58 pm

wow those are truly amazing fish!
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Re: Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby bigwoodsmn » Thu Feb 19, 2015 3:40 am

Those fish are huge. I've kept and smoked some 45-50" fish. We've caught a couple 63-69" range. The most recent video by the Uncut Angling guys is ice fishing for them on the Rainy River.

http://www.uncutangling.com/videos/

The top video.

[bbvideo=425,350]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlI4DV8DI80[/bbvideo]

If you haven't seen these guys... they're expert fishermen and genuinely funny guys.

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Re: Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby Dewey » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:00 am

Cool video from drone on Lake Winnebago last year.

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Re: Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby bkraus » Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:11 am

I speared one around 30 lbs four years ago, and that was a rush! I couldn't imagine the rush of seeing one of those monsters swimming threw a hole. It gets me all amped up thinking of it!

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Re: Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby Dewey » Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:32 am

Wednesday marked the final day of the 2015 sturgeon spear fishery on the Winnebago System Upriver Lakes. The season closed with a harvest of 288 fish and 59.5 percent of license holders successful. Nine fish tipped the scales at more than 100 pounds. The five-day season is on par with the average season on the Upriver Lakes. There were 152 fish harvested from Lake Winnebago Wednesday and 135 Thursday bringing the season total to 1,582. Thursday's harvest of 52 adult females didn't quite get the season to the 90 percent closure mark and the season will continue at least through Friday. A harvest of 94 or more adult females Friday would close down the fishery. A total of five fish over 100 pounds were harvested Thursday.

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Re: Lake Winnebago Sturgeon spearing

Unread postby Stanley » Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:13 am

Uber cool. :o
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