Dick Koerner interviewed Dan Gerhardt for the People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish project. Dan Gerhardt was born in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1940 and has fished in Lake Winnebago for most of his life, moving to Pine River, Wisconsin, around 1995-1996. The interview begins with Dan recounting his early interest in sturgeon spearing, which started when his father took him out on the lake in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He recalls spending time in the shanties of seasoned spearers like Frank Besson Stein, Freddie Whitburn, and Woody Rabideau.