Follow up: Day 3 sturgeon spearing harvest report
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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