The sturgeon don't generally spawn until the end of April or early in May. However, due to our unseasonably warm temps in the middle of March, they were spawning over a month earlier than usual. After meeting on warm Sunday in March, we headed up to the Wolf River to get our first view of the sturgeon. I obviously don't know my fish very well, but I most certainly did NOT expect them to be that HUGE! It was a fascinating day....and we all learned a lot!
About 3-4 days earlier, there were so many sturgeon that they could be seen actually flopping up on the shores along the river. The day we went was a day or two after the weather had cooled a bit but we were still able to see 4-5 at a time just off the shore in the shallow waters.
Some of the fun facts that we learned......sturgeon do not begin to spawn until they are about 20 years old. They can live to be 100 years old and weight an average of 200 pounds!
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