WI sturgeon spearing season ends…

  • buck-slayer
    Posts: 1499
    February 25, 2013 at 9:45 pm #1145708

    I’m going to try that some day. Can you rent shacks?

    PowerFred
    Posts: 395
    February 26, 2013 at 3:46 pm #1145908

    there are people who rent out shacks on both Winnebago and the upriver lakes. If you end up drawing a tag on a year with poor visibility, its tough to connect.I’ve done it twice with no results. It seems like a crap shoot as to where you place your shanty.They don’t hang to specific structures. They just cruise around in rather large, non-descript areas, like mud flats.

    I don’t understand why you can spear them in February but if you hook one during the open water season, you can’t even bring it into your boat to CPR it. We have strange laws here in Wisconsin!

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59944
    February 26, 2013 at 4:15 pm #1145922

    I’ll take a stab at that PF.

    The fish can handle being played (with limits of course) but it’s how the fish are handled once the angler gets it too the boat. Holding large fish by the gill plates or the tails is harmful to any fish. More so when they start weighing in at 50 pounds.

    I would like to see some delayed mortality studies of sturgeon though.

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
    Posts: 1736
    February 26, 2013 at 5:18 pm #1145945

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    I would like to see some delayed mortality studies of sturgeon though.

    –Just what we need another fliping DNR study. …rrr

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11299
    February 26, 2013 at 5:41 pm #1145959

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    I would like to see some delayed mortality studies of sturgeon though.

    –Just what we need another fliping DNR study. …rrr

    There’s still some money left over after they quit making the AIS stickers.

    1hl&sinker
    On the St.Croix
    Posts: 2501
    February 27, 2013 at 6:05 am #1146242

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    I would like to see some delayed mortality studies of sturgeon though.

    –Just what we need another fliping DNR study. …rrr

    There’s still some money left over after they quit making the AIS stickers.

    That money was used up on a study on how much the sticker program helped and adapting red yellow stickers for your boat for non infested water and infested waters.

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