Winnebago System Sturgeon Spawning Run Update

Attention Winnebago System Fisheries Enthusiasts:

We are roughly a week removed from my last update related to the lake sturgeon spawning run on the Winnebago System tributaries. Our crew has been busy catching our breathe after a long spring of sampling and starting to enter some of the data we collected for sturgeon and other fish species including walleye, yellow perch, and northern pike. I don’t have the final tally for how many lake sturgeon were handled during the 2019 spawning stock assessment and that number may increase if we observe and capture fish during a 2nd spawning run in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to send out the summary reports from the 2017 and 2018 lake sturgeon spawning stock assessments that were conducted on the Winnebago System.  I plan to put a similar report together for the 2019 assessment once everything is entered and time allows. The reports are accessible through the following links:

2017 Winnebaog System lake sturgeon spawning stock assessment report_Final.pdf

2018 Winnebago System lake sturgeon spawning stock assessment report_FINAL.pdf

I hope you enjoy the reports and best of luck to all of the anglers during the 2019 fishing season!

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Ryan Koenigs

Senior Fisheries Biologist / Winnebago System Sturgeon Biologist

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

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