How Many Registered Sturgeon Tday Feb 10

Concluding Chance for Spearers

With below normal temperatures and above normal water clarity for the length of the 2014 Lake Winnebago System Sturgeon Spearing Flavour, there is actually no surprise that it will exist coming to an early end. Spearers on Midweek speared a total of 118 Sturgeon, with 5 of these fish exceeding 100 pounds!

In that location were 16 Junvenile Females, 55 Adult Females, and 47 Males taken. With these totals, the 90% trigger for Adult Females has been exceeded, which means spearers will have one terminal gamble tomorrow to spear a Sturgeon this year as the flavour will close at 1:00pm tomorrow.

The due south terminate of the lake still yielded the most fish today, but Quinney and Stockbridge besides yielded strong numbers of fish today. With the flavour slated to end tomorrow, 2014 volition go down as the third shortest season since the half-dozen hour season alter went into effect in 2002.

Although there accept been 99 fish speared weighing over 100 pounds, there haven't been whatsoever true monsters exceeding 170 pounds registered this year. Even though there oasis't been any this large taken, the DNR is confident that there are a fair amount of these truthful dinosaurs still roaming the waters of Lake Winnebago!

Look for a detailed summary of the 2014 Sturgeon Spearing in the nigh hereafter as the season wraps upwards. Thank you for visiting my site, I hope to grow the site in the next year by compiling lots of useful spearing information also as get interviews with lucky spearers, pictures, videos, and much more! If you are interested, I also have a fishing web log that is defended to Northeast Wisconsin angling, Walleye Tournament News, and many other topics of local interest. You lot can view my line-fishing blog at www.midwestfisherman.blogspot.com

Opening Weekend Sturgeon Spearing 2014

Day 2 of the Sturgeon Spearing Season was once once more a very successful one for many spearers, as 321 Sturgeon were taken on Lake Winnebago and 77 on the Upriver Lakes. The south end of Lake Winnebago was in one case once more the near productive surface area, with the majority of the fish being registered at Wendts on the Lake and Pipe. The largest Sturgeon speared today was taken past David Feldner and his Sturgeon weighed in at 148 pounds!

David Feldner'due south 148 Pound Sturgeon

My good friend Chris Kons accompanied his uncle on Lake Poygan this morning and pointed out this nice 51", 35 pound male Sturgeon as it crossed the white boards on the lesser. Subsequently seeing a Northern, a Muskie, several Walleyes, White Bass, and Shad, a Sturgeon finally made it's mode across their pigsty.

Without hesitation the spear was launched, which actually pinned the fish to the bottom briefly, before it attempted to swim off. This fish made all of the preparations worth it, every bit the axle on the original shack they had planned to use bankrupt en route to the Lake. Luckily, Chris had just purchased another shack, which the two ended up using together to spear this Sturgeon.

With the harvest totals on the Upriver Lakes exceeding the 90% target for Adult Females, spearers will have ane final solar day on Monday to become their Sturgeon earlier the season closes. Spearers on Lake Winnebago will likely accept a few more days for a hazard at getting a Sturgeon as the Adult Female harvest cap is at 62% after opening weekend. See the charts below for spearing totals as of the cease of the 24-hour interval on Sunday February 9.

2014 Lake Winnebago - By the numbers as of February 9

	Daily harvest	Flavor harvest	Harvest cap
Juvenile females	38	112 (35%)	320
Developed females	146	460 (62%)	745
Males	137	385 (40%)	960
Totals	321	957	-

2014 Upriver Lakes - By the numbers as of Feb ix

	Daily harvest	Season harvest	Harvest cap
Juvenile females	9	39 (49%)	fourscore
Adult females	25	82 (99%)	83
Males	43	198 (83%)	240
Totals	77	319	-

Opening Twenty-four hours Sturgeon Spearing a Huge Success

All the hype leading up to the 2014 Sturgeon Spearing Season lived up to the high expectations as over 600 Sturgeon were registered on Lake Winnebago lonely! The Upriver Lakes spearers besides had better than boilerplate success, spearing a total of 242 Sturgeon during the opener.

Amanda Scheafer with her first Sturgeon! 67"/78lbs

The hot spot on Lake Winnebago this flavour was the due south end of the lake from Fond du lac to just due south of Oshkosh. Spearers took advantage of the clearest water in several years, which allowed for bang-up visibility for spearers every bit well as the Sturgeon. Sturgeon are curious fish which have shown a tendency over the years to inspect foreign objects that are placed in the water by spearers. These decoys attract the curious Sturgeon to awaiting spearers.


Brandon Engel Speared this 72" 134 pounder on the north stop of the lake	!

The busiest registration station on Lake Winnebago by far was Wendts. There was reportedly virtually a three hr await in line at the finish of the twenty-four hours to register Sturgeon here! With then many fish being registered, Wendts made for a keen place to take the kids and check out the fish and festivities that brand Sturgeon Spearing such a great family sport in our area.

The final tallies from opening day are as follows.

2014 Lake Winnebago - By the numbers as of February 8

	Daily harvest	Season harvest	Harvest cap
Juvenile females	74	74 (23%)	320
Developed females	314	314 (42%)	745
Males	248	248 (26%)	960
Totals	638	638	-

2014 Upriver Lakes - By the numbers as of February 8

	Daily harvest	Season harvest	Harvest cap
Juvenile females	30	30 (38%)	lxxx
Adult females	57	57 (69%)	83
Males	155	155 (65%)	240
Totals	242	242	-

The flavour will come up to an end at the end of the day when either 100% of any one of the cap limits are met, or at the cease of the adjacent day if 90% or more of any of the cap limits are met. With so many fish being taken on opening day, this season volition most likely be a short one! Marker Schram of My Fishing Partner.com has also done a great job covering Sturgeon Spearing with videos, articles, tactics and enough of other great information pertaining to the sport. Here is a video on opening solar day 2014, savor!

Over the past few years the local new stations have really done a nice job covering Sturgeon Spearing, which is contributing to the popularity of the sport. In that location is something special most the entire Sturgeon Spearing procedure from the scouting for worms and articulate water, to the cutting in of the shacks, to hanging your lucky decoy, to throwing that spear at a prehistoric fish, and finally to celebrate with family and friends later on a successful season. For those of you because spearing in the future, I strongly encourage you to give it a shot and decide for yourself if Sturgeon Spearing is a sport for you!

Lake Winnebago Sturgeon Spearing Season Nears

What a deviation a year makes, as this twelvemonth is the polar reverse of terminal yr! Last yr anglers were hampered by poor water clarity and unsafe ice conditions due to a warmer than normal winter. This year, the lake has around 24" of solid, clear water ice which has fabricated for rubber travel, with the exception of the snowfall drifts in certain areas which accept slowed people downward a fleck when going of the plowed roadways.

Fishing clubs around the lake have roads plowed and marked with old Christmas trees, with many of the roads connecting with roads from other portions of the lake. The fishing clubs also have bridges out nigh shore for safely crossing the cracks that always form in sure areas.

As for the water clarity this season, its the all-time nosotros have seen in nearly a decade! Anglers are reporting being able to see bottom in upwards of 17 feet of h2o, which should let anglers to meet more than Sturgeon this yr.

The main challenge spearers will face this twelvemonth will undoubtedly be cut their holes. With ice thicknesses between 22 and 28 inches spearers may have to put less of an angle on their holes to be able to go their saws all the way through the ice. Pushing the huge chunks of ice under once cut will likewise bear witness to be challenging, as the thicker ice volition be more buoyant and take more forcefulness to push nether the water ice.

The main change that the DNR has made for the 2014 season is spearing hours, the spearing hours will now be from 7:00am-1:00pm, with spearers having until 2:00pm to annals their fish at any 1 of the registration stations around the lake.

Harvest caps for the 2014 season on Lake Winnebago have been set at 320 Juvenile Females, 745 Developed Females, and 960 Males.

The flavor begins next Saturday February 8 and will go until either whatever 1 of the 3 harvest caps is met at the end of a spearing day, or 1 spearing twenty-four hour period afterwards xc-99% of i of the harvest caps is accomplished. For more data on Spearing Regulations and full general spearing information, follow this link to the DNR Sturgeon Spearing Page. WI DNR Sturgeon Spearing Regulations