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2-15-18 huge sturgeon speared on lake winnebago

todayFebruary 15, 2018

The DNR’s senior fisheries biologist says its not surprising that huge sturgeon have been harvested this season, and expects there will be more.   Ryan Koenigs says a fish registered in Oshkosh this week was 84 and a half inches long, which is longer than the current state record, but  70 pounds lighter.  “We’ve known for five to ten years that there’s a lot of these big fish out there,”  Koenigs told WFDL news.  Koenigs says 229 sturgeon have been harvested on Lake Winnebago and 297 fish on the upriver lakes.   The upriver lakes season closed Tuesday afternoon.  The season on Lake Winnebago will go the full 16 days.

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