Sheboygan man spears 185-pound sturgeon

 

 

 

 

SHEBOYBAN, Wis. —

A Sheboygan man has speared a 185-pound sturgeon while ice fishing on Lake Winnebago.

Twenty-year-old Josh Genske pulled in the monster catch Monday. He tells The Sheboygan Press from his ice shanty that hanging up, the sturgeon is almost a foot taller than he is -- and he's 6-foot-1.

The sturgeon measures 80.2 inches long and 40.5 inches around. It ranks as the third-biggest speared in the Winnebago system since records began in 1941.

Fisheries biologist Karl Scheidegger with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the sturgeon was likely 90 to 100 years old.