Attention
Winnebago System sturgeon spearing enthusiasts:
For starters,
I’ve been informed that I forgot to send the daily harvest summary sheet
showing how many fish were registered at each station. So I have attached that
summary to this email.
You may
remember that last season I chronicled some past sturgeon spearing seasons
(1957, 1967, 1977, and 1987). This season I plan to chronicle some of the
seasons ending in 8.
Sturgeon Vignette – “The 1958 sturgeon spearing season”
It’s always
interesting to read through these documents and see what changed over the past
60 years. A couple of things jumped out to me as I was reviewing these
documents:
- There was a spearing season open
on Little lake Butte des Morts
- The minimum length limit was 40”
- 1.3% of the harvest was fish >
100 pounds (through 3 days 7.0% of the Lake Winnebago harvest and 3.8% of
the Upriver Lakes harvest has been fish larger than 100 pounds)
- There was not a license required,
but you needed to pay $1.00 to have a tag to lock on the tail immediately
upon harvest
- There were 8 registration
stations, 3 of which are still in operation (Waverly Beach, Stockbridge,
and Calumet Harbor (Pipe)
- There was not a registration
station between Oshkosh and Pipe. Our Wendt’s station is there now
and this is one of our busier stations year in and year out.
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Ryan Koenigs
Senior Fisheries Biologist / Winnebago
System Sturgeon Biologist
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
625 E County Rd. Y, Suite 700
Oshkosh, WI 54901
Phone: (920)303-5450
Fax: (920)424-4404 R
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