The 2025 sturgeon spearing season has gone down as the fifth-best harvest in the last 10 years. By comparison, 2024 was the ...
The largest harvested sturgeon spearing of the day came from Patrick Nolan, who speared a 109.7-pound, 75.5-inch female, one of 27 lake sturgeon harvested in the Winnebago system on Thursday.
The number of sturgeon weighing more than 100 pounds this year was 63. LAKE WINNEBAGO – Many sturgeon spearers persevered through water clarity, weather and access issues on the Lake Winnebago ...
with almost 7% of the harvest weighing more than 100 pounds compared to last year's 2%. The heaviest catch in 2025 was Hayley Herzig's 180.5-pound sturgeon. 2024's was Kurt Knoll's 148-pound sturgeon.