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Hayley Herzig's Winnebago sturgeon weighed more than 180 pounds, and it took four people more than 20 minutes to haul it through a hole in the ice.

The early morning air temperature was only 15 degrees on Feb. 8, when Hayley Herzig, her boyfriend, Charlie Loehr, and his cousin, Ben Loehr, stepped out of their truck and onto the rock-solid surface of Lake Winnebago. They’d parked on the north shore near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and they headed straight for a wooden ice shanty where they waited for the lake’s short spearing season to begin.

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