When thinking of the lake sturgeon, some liken the fish to a living fossil. It grows scales, can live over a hundred years, ...

The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan, will begin at 8 a.m. on Feb. 7. All ...

The 2026 sturgeon spearing seasons on Lake Winnebago and the Upriver Lakes open Feb. 14. Here is what to know about ...

Michigan's 2025 sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake starts Feb. 1. The quota for the season is six fish with no minimum ...

The Winnebago System sturgeon spearing season will start Feb. 14 on Lake Winnebago and the Upriver Lakes of Butte des Morts, Poygan and Winneconne.

A lot of anglers in the Upper Great Lakes Areas covet the muskellunge, calling them the kings of freshwater. But these anglers must not fish for lake sturgeon. Indeed, in Wisconsin, which has dubbed ...

The traditionally shortest fishing season in the State of Michigan – the one for Black Lake sturgeon - will open Feb. 7. The sturgeon spearing fishing season will last for four days at Black Lake in ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY — Seventeen minutes. That’s all it took. At 8:17 a.m. on Saturday morning, the 2025 Black Lake sturgeon season ended as the final fish was pulled from the water, marking a ...

After only 65 minutes of fishing, this year’s sturgeon season on Black Lake (in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties) ended at 9:05 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. There were 630 registered anglers, including a ...

A prehistoric visitor, a sturgeon fish, washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19, baffling beach goers around Islanders Beach Club. Photographed by John Billings, vacationer from Tennessee. Courtesy of ...