Michigan's Black Lake sturgeon fishing season lasts 65 minutes

[Louie Detroit]

I hope it was worth it.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...n/69873149007/

Michigan's shortest fishing season lasted 65 minutes Saturday.

The 2023 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County began at 8 a.m. and ended at 9:05 a.m.

The harvest limit for the season was six lake sturgeon. Officials close the season either when the sixth fish is harvested or five fish have been harvested at the end of any fishing day.

Last year, the season ended after 36 minutes. The largest fish caught in 2022 was a 62-inch male that weighed 67 pounds.

The DNR and several entities have been working to rehabilitate lake sturgeon populations in Michigan after they declined dramatically since the 1800s due to habitat loss and degradation and overfishing, according to the DNR.

"Lake sturgeon rehabilitation efforts in Black Lake over the last two decades have been a successful collaboration between the Michigan DNR, Sturgeon for Tomorrow, tribal agencies, Michigan State University and Tower-Kleber Limited Partnership," according to DNR. "This population has increased in the past 20 years due to rearing and stocking efforts, research and protection of spawning adults, and this trend is expected to continue."

[Anjdog2003]

Black Lake Lives Matter

[Bill]

This seems kind of stupid, but I get the overall point of trying to restore a fishery through conservation.

[Aerovette]

Like a sturgeon
Caught for the very first time
Like a Sturgeon
It got hooked at
Two minutes past 9.

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

This seems kind of stupid, but I get the overall point of trying to restore a fishery through conservation.

Michigan DNR kicks major kick ass providing hunting/fishing/conservation opportunities to it's citizens, no matter how sometimes the reasons may seem obscure.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

This seems kind of stupid, but I get the overall point of trying to restore a fishery through conservation.

So why fish them at all?

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

So why fish them at all?

Reason #1 - Because it's a Michigan thing and a good opportunity to party hard out on that nasty ice.

Reason #2 - Because we are Michigan and we kick serious ass.

Reason #3 - Michigan = **** the World, how many others can hold up their hand to identify their superior placement in world geography?

[Big bob]

Did you even get good ice this year?

[Bill]

I'm surprised this diabla allowed her subjects out of their houses for an hour.

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by Big bob

Did you even get good ice this year?

Didn't verify personally, but it's been cold AF and haven't heard of any Michiganders becoming Ice Cubes lately.

[Louie Detroit]

Reason #4 - Michigan has been a dominant tool of American industry rolling and controlling shit for a century now. We design, we build, we create, we produce, we ship, we bill. FTW

If it wasn't for Michigan the US easily could have lost WW2.

[Egnalf]

Wasn't that the place the husband of the governor fished while everyone else was locked down?

Weren't these total lockdowns a big part of the auto industry crisis? Asking for a fiend.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

Reason #1 - Because it's a Michigan thing and a good opportunity to party hard out on that nasty ice.

Reason #2 - Because we are Michigan and we kick serious ass.

Reason #3 - Michigan = **** the World, how many others can hold up their hand to identify their superior placement in world geography?

My wife's grandfather, an orphan in Detroit, was educated in a private Catholic school on charity, started pushing a broom for FoMoCo at 16. They put him through college for industrial engineering, and he worked for Ford until he retired at age 55.

[ricks327]

Originally Posted by Big bob

Did you even get good ice this year?

Black Lake is in northern Michigan's Lower Peninsula, plenty cold.

[ricks327]

Originally Posted by Egnalf

Wasn't that the place the husband of the governor fished while everyone else was locked down?

Weren't these total lockdowns a big part of the auto industry crisis? Asking for a fiend.

You are partially correct, our dumb **** governor's husband tried to get their boat launched at their northern cottage during the lockdown and threw out his wife's/governor's name in an attempt to avoid the lockdown. The lockdown was set in place to stop cottage/vacation homeowners to come north and open their seasonal residences. Typical of dumbocrats that the rules didn't apply to them, "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I RULE".

[Big bob]

Originally Posted by ricks327

Black Lake is in northern Michigan's Lower Peninsula, plenty cold.

Not this year ice was unsafe in January.