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MENASHA (WLUK) -- Like clockwork, a notorious pest for residents around Lake Winnebago has returned: the lake fly. Pam Schoenecker has lived on Brighton Beach Road in Menasha, along the lake's ...
The nearly 146-acre Lakeside Park offers a variety of backgrounds for photos, from Lake Winnebago and the lighthouse to the flower gardens and gazebos on the islands. Christine Peck of the Sparkle ...
THEY SAY NO HARVEST CAPS WERE MET ON LAKE WINNEBAGO THIS YEAR, BUT 63 FIS The 2025 Winnebago System sturgeon spearing season has ended.According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ...
LAKE WINNEBAGO – A beloved local tradition is nearing its end for the season, with its final day Feb. 23. As of Feb. 20, 752 spearers have come off the ice victorious throughout the Lake ...
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - The following information is from the DNR: Driving around Lake Winnebago, there are fewer and fewer shacks every day, but spearers taking to the ice continue to say that ...
LAKE WINNEBAGO, Wis. (WSAW) - Spearers took to the ice for the first time this weekend for the start of sturgeon spearing season on the Lake Winnebago system. Thousands participated in the opening ...
LAKE WINNEBAGO (WLUK) -- Lake Winnebago welcomes anglers for day two of the sturgeon spearing season. Good Day Wisconsin spent day 2 of the sturgeon spearing season with the Otter Street Fishing Club.
AND TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF STURGEON SPEARING SEASON. THE HUNT IS CENTERED ON LAKE WINNEBAGO AND SEVERAL OTHER UPRIVER LAKES. THE DNR SAYS FISHERS SPEARED 169 STURGEON ON THIS OPENING DAY.
The spearing season will last 16 days, unless any of the harvest caps are met sooner. For Lake Winnebago, this year's harvest caps are 280 juvenile females, 717 adult females and 1,002 males ...
OSHKOSH - The Lake Winnebago ice whisperer has some good news and some bad news for people looking forward to sturgeon spearing season and other winter events on the lake. First, the good news ...