The Red River’s lake sturgeon restoration effort is seeing fruits of its labor with signs of spawning taking place after decades of work.
Reports of lake sturgeon in the Red River date back to
Founder of the Westonka Walleye Program, Johnny Range, has spent the past 12 years fundraising and annually stocking 8- to 13-inch walleyes in Lake Minnetonka.
As he plans to continue doing that work, he’s
Lake sturgeon spawning near the Melvin Price Lock and Dam near Alton, Ill., is under way for the fourth straight year, earning a round of applause from fisheries biologists and wildlife officials in both Illinois
Sporting a fluorescent green Sturgeon For Tomorrow vest, Tom Markowski and Mike Schmalzer stood out like sore thumbs as lake sturgeon cruised the Fox River in downtown Princeton, Wis.
The pair were two of
A local high school fishing club was able to get up close and personal with spawning lake sturgeon on the Fox River in Wisconsin.
The annual sturgeon spawning ritual on the Fox River in
Saugatuck Brewing Company is once again partnering with the Michigan DNR to launch the “Lake Street Light x Lake Sturgeon Program.”
Set for April, the collaboration is designed to raise awareness and support the
School administrators likely pondered whether to change Warren Nelson’s absence Feb. 10 from “illness” to “unexcused” when learning the boy speared a sturgeon that morning on Lake Winneconne during Wisconsin’s Winnebago system’s 16-day season.
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 7, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
The Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season closed after running the full length of the season with some space left on the harvest caps.
On the last day, Lake Winnebago gave up seven juvenile females,
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