Lake sturgeon in a lake

  • lhprop1
    Eagan
    Posts: 1899
    July 23, 2015 at 10:16 am #1556056

    I’m going to be fishing a lake in northern WI that has sturgeon in it. As luck would have it, the sturgeon season will be open while I’m there and I was hoping to take the wife and in-laws out to catch their first sturgies.

    I’ve caught plenty of those beautiful critters on the St Croix, but does fishing sturgeon in a lake differ much from fishing them in a river? Are there any certain things I should look for? Max depth of the lake is only around 30′ or so.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    July 23, 2015 at 10:29 am #1556058

    Hope you have a good sonar!

    Your best intel would come from people fishing the lake already or possibly a bait shop.

    lhprop1
    Eagan
    Posts: 1899
    July 23, 2015 at 11:26 am #1556076

    I’ll ask around. The lake survey (WI doesn’t do very in depth surveys) said that lake sturgeon were present. I don’t know in what numbers or if there is any size to them at all.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    July 23, 2015 at 3:41 pm #1556137

    Chum for them with corn.

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