Day 2 of the 2017 sturgeon spearing season on the
Winnebago System is in the books with a harvest of 115 fish from Lake Winnebago
and 60 fish from the Upriver Lakes. That brings the season totals to 313 from
Lake Winnebago and 183 from the Upriver Lakes. We are currently at 19.0%
of the adult female harvest cap meaning the season will go the full 16
days. On the Upriver Lakes we have reached 50.6% of the male harvest cap
and 42.1% of the adult female harvest cap. Therefore, there is a strong
chance that the season will go into next weekend.
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The big fish trend continued today with 8 fish larger
than 100 pounds being harvested from Lake Winnebago. Today’s biggest fish was
140.6 pounds, 78.9” and registered by Michael Larson from Seymour (photo
attached). Through the first 2 days of the season there have been 23 fish
100 pounds or larger harvested from Lake Winnebago (7.3% of harvest) and 4 from
the Upriver Lakes (2.2%).
I want to thank all of the spearers who have donated
their sturgeon heads thus far. As I write this report there are a number of my
colleagues and volunteers working to remove otoliths from sturgeon heads that
were dropped off at our stations today. It looks like we will have a
pretty good sample of aging structures to work with. I have included a
photo of a pair of otoliths (2 white structures)that were removed from one of
the sturgeon heads collected today.
Until my report tomorrow, good luck to those spearers
venturing out on Monday!
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Ryan Koenigs
Senior Fisheries Biologist / Winnebago
System Sturgeon Biologist
Wisconsin Department of Natural
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