Northeastern Wisconsin Great Lakes Sport Fishermen held its annual Smoked Fish Contest at its October meeting at City Limits.

Winners in the Smoked Fish category were Ken Lau in first place, Bob Lutze in second place and Bruce Meissner in third place.

Winners in the Smoked Fish Spread category were Eugene Runnoe in first place, Terry Meissner in second place and Ken Lau in third place.

First-place winners received a plaque, $35 and bragging rights. Second-place winners received a plaque, $25 and bragging rights. And third-place winners received a plaque, $15 and bragging rights.

Judges were Jerry Kirk, Wayne Monka, Atiq Khan and Andy Lindsay.

Meeting attendees got to sample all the smoked fish and smoked fish spread entries.

Guest speaker for the meeting was Titus Seilheimer, fisheries specialist with UW Sea Grant.

Visit Fish & Game Commemorative Park in Newton

Manitowoc County Fish & Game Memorial Park is at 14107 Newton Road, Newton, and now is a great time to visit.

Applications to have a name added to the memorial park will be available in November and due in February. Watch for more about the memorial park in the coming weeks.

If you want to visit the park, here’s how to find it:

• Depending on the direction you are coming from, you will need to be on County Road C, which runs east and west from Interstate 43 to State 67.
• Take County Road C to Pigeon Lake Road and go south along the lake to Newton Road.
• Pigeon Lake Road is east of St. Nazianz and east of Sinawa Road.
• On the corner of Pigeon Lake Road and County Road C, there is a storage unit building, so turn there.
• Once you turn onto Newton Road, going east to the 14107 address, the Fish & Game Memorial Park is on the right side of the road.

Maribel club plans gun sight-in days

Maribel Sportsmen’s Club will hold gun sight-in days on Oct. 25 and 26, and then again on Nov. 8 and 9.

The public is welcome to take in their guns to get help with the sight-in process from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on these days.

Food and refreshments will also be available in the upper bar.

Woodland Dunes holds raffle for UTV or $20K

Woodland Dunes Nature Center & Preserve in Two Rivers invites you to enter to win a 2025 Polaris Ranger XP 1000 Premium UTV or choose $20,000.

Tickets are $250 each and only 200 tickets are available. Proceeds will support Woodland Dunes.

Stop in to get a ticket today at 3000 Hawthorne Ave., Two Rivers, or call 920-793-4007. The Nature Center is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays.

The winner will be drawn Nov. 8.

DNR reminds of sturgeon spearing license deadline

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reminds all spearers interested in harvesting a lake sturgeon from Lake Winnebago during the 2026 sturgeon spearing season to purchase their license before Oct. 31.

An unlimited number of licenses are available for Lake Winnebago. Both residents and non-residents can purchase a license through the Go Wild system or at any license sales location.

All license holders must be a minimum of 12 years old. However, military personnel home on leave during the spearing season and youth who will turn 12 between Nov. 1 and the last day of the 2026 spearing season do not need to purchase their license by the Oct. 31 deadline.

The Upriver Lakes fishery (lakes Poygan, Butte des Morts and Winneconne) is managed by a preference point system and lottery that is limited to 500 permitted spearers. Successful Upriver Lakes tag applicants have already been authorized for the 2026 season and have until the start of the spearing season to purchase a license. Successful Upriver Lakes tag applicants cannot purchase a tag for Lake Winnebago.

The Winnebago lake sturgeon population continues to be one of the healthiest populations in the world, supporting the spearing season, but protecting and maintaining this special opportunity has and continues to require a lot of time and resources.

Sturgeon spearing license sales help fund the necessary management activities on the Winnebago System, such as staffing the registration stations during the spearing season and the work during the spawning season to gather data to set the sustainable harvest caps.

The license sales also fund the large acoustic tagging project in the Winnebago System, which tracks lake sturgeon movement throughout the system and helps ensure all Winnebago lake sturgeon management decisions are made using the latest science.

The 2026 sturgeon spearing season will open on Feb. 14, 2026, and will run for a maximum of 16 days, or until any of the predetermined harvest caps are met.

Additional season information can be found on the DNR’s Sturgeon Spearing webpage.

Maribel club elects officers

During the October meeting of the Maribel Sportsmen’s Club, election of officers was held.

President will be Rodney Gove, vice president will be Scott Paquette, secretary will be Nel Spangler and treasurer will be Sue Siebert.

The rest of the directors include Lynn Robinson, Jack Eisner, Tim Meyer, Joe Niec and Bill Mecha.

These officers and directors will start their terms in January 2026.

That’s it for this week, so have fun in the great outdoors.