Episode 557, Sturgeon Spearing Lake Winnebago Wisconsin With Carrie Zylka

Mar 2, 2020

We talk with HuntFishTravel's Carrie Zylka about her experiences sturgeon spearing Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin.

1. Ice conditions haven't been good this season in Wisconsin
2. How Carrie began sturgeon spearing
3. A culture all within it's own
4. Heated ice houses
5. Styles of ice houses
6. Lake Winnebago and what to expect
7. Fishing limits
8. The Upper River Lakes of Lake Winnebago
9. The Upper River Lakes tags are coveted tags
10. How the season runs in Wisconsin
11. Times for spearing
12. License fees
13. The festival atmosphere
14. The Frozen Chosen movie
15. Sitting waiting on the fish
16. The hole, the decoy and the spear
17. How they size the fish
18. Using a coffee cup
19. The things people put in the water for a visual reference
20. Decoy carving
21. Trying to pattern them
22. The secret spots
23. Following the guys who know where the fish are
24. Left over holes in the ice
25. Hole size 48 sq ft
26. Talking about the spears used
27. What happens when you spear one
28. The size of sturgeon
29. What the DNR check for when registering your catch
30. Equipment used to cut the holes and push the ice
31. Holes cut day before season
32. How to prepare sturgeon for the table
33. Where people come from to spear on Lake Winnebago
34. What people from the south think about the life on the ice
35. Bonfires on the ice
36. Renting the ice houses

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