More than 500 sturgeon speared on Opening Day
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources says more than 500 sturgeon have been speared on the season’s opening day.
DNR biologist Ron Bruch said Saturday the one-day harvest total was 506 fish.
Fourteen fish weighed in at more than 100 pounds. The largest fish of the day was a 148-pound sturgeon, speared on Lake Poygan by Doug Koball of Elkhart Lake.
Bruch says 91-year-old Aelred Schumacher of Hilbert speared a fish almost as old as himself. It was a 125-pound female registered at Stockbridge.
Sturgeon spearing is conducted in Lake Winnebago and the upriver lakes of Winneconne, Poygan and Butte des Morts.
The season continues until March 1 unless spearers reach harvest caps before then.
Feb 16, 2009 at 7:59 a.m.
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Spoken like a true "never-went-sturgeon-spearing-before" type of an individual.
Feb 15, 2009 at 11:35 p.m.
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Why spearing the fish? These people must be lazy and is the only way of using a spear. Hook, line, and sink is the best way to catch a fish. And it's the only way to fish.
Feb 15, 2009 at 1:52 p.m.
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"Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow. Death to" the sturgeon!
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apologies to Mr. Melville.
Feb 15, 2009 at 1:02 p.m.
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"Call me Ishmael."
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