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    2022 Black Lake sturgeon season begins Feb. 5

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    Jan. 10, 2022
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    2022 Black Lake sturgeon season begins Feb. 5
    Sturgeon

    Michigan's 2022 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 5. All anglers must register online by Feb. 4 to participate in the fishing season.

    The harvest limit for the 2022 season on Black Lake is six lake sturgeon. To prevent overfishing, Department of Natural Resources officials will close the season when one of two scenarios occurs:

    The sixth fish is harvested.
    Five fish have been harvested at the end of any fishing day.

    Fishing hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day of the season. The season will end either at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, or when one of the above scenarios is met, at which point anglers will be notified via text message and on the ice by DNR personnel that they must immediately stop fishing for lake sturgeon.

    Anglers must register for the season, and those 17 or older must have a valid Michigan fishing license. This year, anglers must register online by Feb. 4 to participate. Get more registration information at Michigan.gov/Sturgeon.

    Participating anglers must bring their own 1-foot-diameter or larger bright red flag to hang on their fishing shanty to help DNR personnel identify those who are sturgeon fishing. Anglers are asked to hang one or more of these in highly visible locations on their shanty.

    Anyone harvesting a lake sturgeon must immediately contact DNR personnel on the ice to register the fish. Official registration of harvested fish will be at the Onaway DNR Field Office 1 mile south of Onaway State Park. Harvest registration may include an examination of internal organs and removal of a piece of fin tissue for DNA analysis or aging.

    Lake sturgeon rehabilitation efforts in Black Lake over the last two decades have been a successful collaborative effort between the Michigan DNR, Sturgeon for Tomorrow, tribal agencies, Michigan State University and Tower-Kleber Limited Partnership. 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.

    Anglers should be aware of marginal ice conditions on regional lakes so far this year and use extreme caution if fishing. Visit Michigan.gov/IceSafety for tips to stay safe on the ice.

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    Will be out there trying to get a dinosaur of a fish, will let ya know where I am PM me if ya going out for the short season, we have a few that get together and have a ritual at 7 am come on and join us on the lake cheers, Ice is getting thicker and better by the day, cooooold temps have settled in and making Ice everyday bring tips and jigging poles, many more fish to get when not after Sturgeon and support the Sturgeon for tomorrow chapter of Black Lake lots of hard working people have helped to keep this a thing to do on Black Lake, not like the older days but better than none.

    Jerry

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    Well a bust in our shack, season lasted 35 mins this yr 6 fish taken, biggest taken was 63 lbs and smallest was 23 lbs 1 small female 48 lbs IIRC and rest where male all fish where tagged 2 had 2 tags

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    The End.

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    Nice picture, by looks of it, was taken down by the state park

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    We spent, we went and speared nothing . The fish were speared all over the lake , so no one spot was better than another .

    I did end up catching 6 subpar perch .

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    Perch fishing as gone to hell anymore out there its hit and miss to many Pike and Muskie keep numbers down, same with the walleye, no chance to grow, we were set up on Morgan Bar down towards state park, think 3 came from closer to park

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