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Sturgeon Spawning In Full Swing on the Wolf River Photo of the day: Senior Fisheries Biologist Kendall Kamke and his “sturgeon discount double-check” – check it out. Eat your heart out Aaron Rodgers. photo WDNR ©2012 The annual spring sturgeon spawning run is on in the Wolf River. DNR fisheries biologist Ron Bruch issues daily reports on the progress of the run and on DNR tagging activity. Here’s a sample report from Tuesday, March 27: We found more sturgeon on spawning sites to tag today despite the cold weather this morning, ending up with 63 total fish captured and tagged at two sites, Hwy 156 and the Pines. There were fish actively spawning or “lollygagging” at a few other sites as well strongly suggesting that fish will continue to trickle onto spawning sites even though the water temps are much lower than they were late last week. We will continue to work fish wherever we find them – we like to get as many fish tagged from as many sites as possible each year. Nothing again at Shawano today, although I still expect fish to begin spawning at this site within the next 3-6 days – we’ll see – these fish never tire at making a fool out of me (they’ve been doing it for over twenty years; why stop now). ……………. Read more here: Ron Bruch’s Blog, Winnebago Lake Sturgeon For more information contact: Ron Bruch – (920)424-3059 Sturgeon HOTLINE – (920)303-5444 eMail Ron Bruch