02/02/2026
Record-breaking sturgeon speared at Lake Winnebago
Angler Hayley Herzig speared an F4 female that weighed 180.5 pounds and measured 79.3 inches long on Saturday. (The largest fish on record speared in the Winnebago system was 212.2 pounds and 84.2 inches long back in 2010.)
According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, spearers harvested a total of 290 sturgeon in the Winnebago system over Saturday and Sunday. That included 35 juvenile females, 78 adult females and 90 males.