Yes, you learn that proper, 65 minutes of fishing for this 12 months’s sturgeon season on Black Lake (in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties). The 2023 lake sturgeon season for Black Lake ended at 9:05 a.m. Saturday, February 4th this 12 months. This season included sturgeon spearing and hook and line fishing for sturgeon was initially set to run from February 4th to eighth or till the harvest quota of six lake sturgeon was reached. Sturgeon anglers had been initially going to have a harvest quota of seven sturgeon this 12 months, however the Michigan Department of Natural Resources set the harvest restrict at six fish. The 2023 season had 630 registered anglers, which included a superb variety of youth anglers. According to the Michigan DNR, the harvest sturgeon ranged in measurement from 32 inches lengthy to 55.5 inches lengthy and 6.4 kilos as much as 35.5 kilos.
- The first fish was a 49-inch male that weighed 30 kilos.
- Fish quantity two was a 55.5-inch feminine that weighed 35.5 kilos.
- Fish three was a 54.3-inch male that checked in at 32 kilos.
- Fish 4 was a 32-inch immature fish that weighed 6.4 kilos.
- The fifth fish was a 54-inch male that weighed 34 kilos.
- The sixth fish was a 39-inch male that weighed 11.8 kilos.
Of the six harvested fish two of them had been captured earlier than by the Michigan State University and the DNR throughout spring spawning runs within the Black River or from earlier years’ surveys of Black Lake. The 55.5-inch feminine was initially captured within the Black River in 2012, whereas the 54-inch male was tagged within the lake in 2007 after which recaptured within the river in 2017. The 32-inch immature fish’s intercourse might be decided utilizing a DNA take a look at, and the 54.3-inch male fish was a identified stocked fish. Anglers who participated had been notified of the closure by quite a lot of methods, primarily by a textual content alert system and their ice shanty being visited by DNR personnel. To be sure the harvest of fish was reported shortly DNR personnel had been on the ice with the fishing communities.
Black Lake’s 65-Minute 2023 Lake Sturgeon Season
Rehabilitation of lake sturgeon within the Cheboygan River watershed is a cooperative effort involving the DNR, the Black Lake Chapter of Sturgeon For Tomorrow, Michigan State University, Tower-Kleber Limited Partnership, the Bay Mills Indian Community, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
For extra data on lake sturgeon in Michigan, go to Michigan.gov/Sturgeon. To be taught extra about all fishing alternatives statewide, go to Michigan.gov/Fishing.
