Mar. 8---- It seemed like a bold prediction 10 years ago, but time is proving it true. When lake sturgeon were restocked in Big Stone Lake in 2014, it was estimated that in five years' time, some of ...

The early morning air temperature was only 15 degrees on Feb. 8, when Hayley Herzig, her boyfriend, Charlie Loehr, and his cousin, Ben Loehr, stepped out of their truck and onto the rock-solid surface ...

VAN DYNE, Wis. (WLUK) — Hayley Herzig, 22, has been sturgeon-spearing for six years but she didn't expect her first harvest to be larger than herself. "It was very exciting, did not feel real," said ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. — So often anglers tell tales of the fish they've caught and the stories are much bigger than the fishes themselves. That wasn't the case for 22-year-old Hayley Herzig, who caught ...

A lot of anglers in the Upper Great Lakes Areas covet the muskellunge, calling them the kings of freshwater. But these anglers must not fish for lake sturgeon. Indeed, in Wisconsin, which has dubbed ...

FISHING — Numerous decades-old sturgeon being found dead in the Columbia River near the Tri-Cities are prompting a proposal to close catch-and-release fishing for the species. The proposal is ...