
When I asked John Krizek if he knew what his 72-inch lake sturgeon weighed, he said, “I have no idea. We don’t have a scale that big on the boat. We were in shock.”
Krizek, of Antioch, and his fishing friend of 30 years, Steve Esler, have fished Wisconsin’ hook-and-line season for lake sturgeon in September out of River’s Edge Resort at the Wisconsin Dell for about 25 years.