Episode description
We talk with HuntFishTravel's Carrie Zylka about her experiences sturgeon spearing Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin.
- Ice conditions haven't been good this season in Wisconsin
- How Carrie began sturgeon spearing
- A culture all within it's own
- Heated ice houses
- Styles of ice houses
- Lake Winnebago and what to expect
- Fishing limits
- The Upper River Lakes of Lake Winnebago
- The Upper River Lakes tags are coveted tags
- How the season runs in Wisconsin
- Times for spearing
- License fees
- The festival atmosphere
- The Frozen Chosen movie
- Sitting waiting on the fish
- The hole, the decoy and the spear
- How they size the fish
- Using a coffee cup
- The things people put in the water for a visual reference
- Decoy carving
- Trying to pattern them
- The secret spots
- Following the guys who know where the fish are
- Left over holes in the ice
- Hole size 48 sq ft
- Talking about the spears used
- What happens when you spear one
- The size of sturgeon
- What the DNR check for when registering your catch
- Equipment used to cut the holes and push the ice
- Holes cut day before season
- How to prepare sturgeon for the table
- Where people come from to spear on Lake Winnebago
- What people from the south think about the life on the ice
- Bonfires on the ice
- Renting the ice houses
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