CHEBOYGAN — For those who use Black Lake for recreation and the businesses located near the lake, the first weekend in February is eagerly anticipated. That is when the lake sturgeon season opens on ...

The 2025 Black Lake sturgeon fishing season concluded in record time, with all six allowed sturgeon caught in just 17 minutes. This year saw a record number of registered fishermen at 797. The largest ...

In a groundbreaking collaboration, the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation, the Seneca Nation of Indians, ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The 2025 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1. All anglers must register online in advance to ...

After only 65 minutes of fishing, this year’s sturgeon season on Black Lake (in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties) ended at 9:05 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. (Michigan DNR) CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Mich. – Black ...

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 ...

Twenty-five years ago, the Tennessee Aquarium embarked on a conservation program to help bring back a locally extinct ...

Sep. 21—TRAVERSE CITY — Students are creating a personal and emotional connection with the Boardman River system by caring for the sturgeon that live in it. Students throughout the region have been ...

Sturgeon is better known for being the fish responsible for caviar, but this sleepy Michigan town is a safe haven for the ...

FOND DU LAC – Sturgeon spearing season is almost here, but is the ice ready? This year's spearers will be cutting into the ice Feb. 7 in preparation for opening day of the sturgeon spearing season ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY — Seventeen minutes. That’s all it took. At 8:17 a.m. on Saturday morning, the 2025 Black Lake sturgeon season ended as the final fish was pulled from the water, marking a ...