Michigan's 2026 sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake starts Feb. 7. The quota for the season is six fish with no minimum ...

Anglers looking to bring home a lake sturgeon from Cheboygan County’s Black Lake should plan to hit the ice on Saturday, Feb.

The 2026 Black Lake sturgeon fishing season will officially open on Saturday, Feb. 7, the Michigan DNR announced on Monday.

The rare annual opportunity to catch a prehistoric lake sturgeon on Black Lake in Cheboygan County is scheduled to begin at 8 ...

The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan, will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. All ...

Changes to sturgeon fishing regulations may be coming to Michigan. Michigan’s Natural Resource Commission met last week to discuss several issues including a pair involving the prized prehistoric fish ...

The quota has been set for the 2025 Black Lake sturgeon season in Michigan. The state's shortest fishing season takes place the first Saturday in February; in 2025, it falls on Feb. 1 in northern ...

Lake sturgeon are a protected species in Michigan and must be released immediately if caught. The fish are long-lived, slow to mature, and were overfished in the 1800s, leading to their threatened ...

WAYLAND, Mich — The Lake Sturgeon can grow to be over 6 feet in length, and live to be more than 100 years old, but if you blink - you might miss the very short fishing season for the Michigan icon.

After a historically warm winter last year canceled several events, Michigan’s sturgeon season came back in full swing earlier this month. It broke records with the most participants and the fastest ...

After only 65 minutes of fishing, this year’s sturgeon season on Black Lake (in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties) ended at 9:05 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. There were 630 registered anglers, including a ...

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 ...