The traditionally shortest fishing season in the State of Michigan – the one for Black Lake sturgeon - will open Feb. 7. The sturgeon spearing fishing season will last for four days at Black Lake in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has announced the details of the state’s extremely limited lake sturgeon season for 2026. The season will open at 8 a.m. on ...

The season is allotted for Feb. 7 until the afternoon of Feb. 11, but will likely end sooner. Once a quota of six fish is reached or five fish are harvested at the end of one of the fishing days, the ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has announced the date of the brief lake sturgeon fishing season in Northern Michigan. This is the only chance for anglers ...

Will the Black Lake lake sturgeon fishing season again set a time record in 2026? We'll find out Feb. 7 when the season begins — and most likely also end. The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on ...

Two Michigan lake sturgeon rehabilitation programs reached significant milestones this fall in the marathon effort to restore the Great Lakes giants. In Cheboygan County's Black Lake, home to a short ...

(WXYZ) — The 2026 Black Lake sturgeon fishing season will officially open on Saturday, Feb. 7, the Michigan DNR announced on Monday. According to the DNR, the ...

Every year, Michigan hosts one of the shortest fishing seasons in the country with the Black Lake sturgeon harvest, and the details have just been released for 2026. The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY — The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan, will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, with a harvest limit of six fish. According to a Jan. 5 ...

Lake sturgeon can grow up to 7 feet long and weigh 200-300 pounds – roughly the size of a female ostrich. Some have lived up to 150 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says. “Lake sturgeon is ...

Sitting over an 8-inch hole on a one-million-acre lake does give an angler an incredibly wide range of potential outcomes, although none are guaranteed to you. This is the draw that is Lake of the ...