(WFRV) – Thirty lake sturgeon were harvested on Thursday in northeast Wisconsin as spearers continue to be affected by the warmer temperatures; however, the trigger to close the season inches closer.
Jordan Schmitz came away with the largest lake sturgeon harvested today with a nice 102.6-pound, 68.6-inch lake sturgeon. (Wisconsin DNR)
The Wisconsin DNR’s daily sturgeon report states that two juvenile females, 12 adult females, and 16 males were harvested on February 19.
Only one of the 30 harvested was over 100 pounds. The 102.6-pound, 68.6-inch female was harvested by Jordan Schmitz and was their first-ever lake sturgeon.
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The current totals for the entire Winnebago system are 193 juvenile females, 622 adult females, and 620 males for a total of 1,435 lake sturgeon.
“We continue to inch closer to the 90% trigger for the adult female harvest cap with 85% of the adult female harvest cap for the entire Winnebago system total harvested after today,” DNR officials stated.
