How to catch Wisconsin’s biggest fish – video
Site Staff
September 22, 2024
These fish are challenging to catch, insanely powerful, and just downright cool.
Sturgeon
Northern Wisconsin DNR fisheries teams continue with sturgeon work
DNR Report
September 13, 2024
Wisconsin DNR fisheries team members from the Park Falls and Hayward offices have been doing some lake sturgeon work in Sawyer, Price, and neighboring counties for several years now, and have found these large, old
Documentary highlights Minnesota’s Red River lake sturgeon recovery
DNR Report
September 11, 2024
The Minnesota DNR recently released a new 30-minute documentary called “Kings in the North: Lake Sturgeon Recovery in the Red River Basin.”
The video tells the story of decades-long efforts by Minnesota DNR fisheries
Streams of Thought: Lake sturgeon the coolest of our Minnesota fishes?
Tim Spielman
September 11, 2024
I caught my first and only lake sturgeon many years ago on the St. Croix River somewhere east of Rock Creek. To say I was smitten by the smallish 36-incher might be taking things a
Michigan DNR catches giant lake sturgeon in Lake St. Clair
Darren Warner
September 10, 2024
For more then 150 million years, the species colloquially referred to as “living dinosaurs” have roamed Michigan waters. Today, a healthy population of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) swims in the St. Clair/Detroit River system, living
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Multiple hunting seasons open in September
Staff and News Reports
August 30, 2024
A number of hunting seasons open in September on six different dates, starting on Sept. 1 when the mourning dove, early teal and early goose seasons open. Seasons for rail, snipe, and common gallinule also
Wisconsin DNR team tracking Couderay River sturgeon, smallies after 2011 dam removal allowed fish to roam
Dave Zeug
August 5, 2024
The term fish passage in rivers has been a buzzword for years among fish biologists and is often used when describing the advantages of allowing fish to move upstream or down to find suitable habitat
Hudson River researchers in New York boat rare Atlantic sturgeon
Charles Witek III
July 23, 2024
In June, biologists and volunteers working for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program caught a female Atlantic sturgeon, estimated to weigh about 220 pounds, in the Hudson River near
Lake Michigan fisherman: ‘Holy crap – it’s a sturgeon’
Anthony Candia
July 19, 2024
Ernesto Amparan has been fishing Lake Michigan since he was just a tiny tot – yet despite ongoing jokes about Chicago shorelines, he’s never come across a dead body.
He’d never seen a sturgeon,
