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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

So often anglers tell tales of the fish they've caught and the stories are much bigger than the fishes themselves. That wasn't the case for 22-year-old Hayley Herzig, who caught the fourth-largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another rare and prehistoric fish washed ashore on Fripp Island in Beaufort County this week. Here’s what we know.