I don't know much about sturgeon fishing in Michigan, but here in northern California we use 3"-4" pieces of lamprey eel or ghost shrimp with a pile worm. hope this helps TIGHT LINES TO YOU ALL !!!!

Sturgeon love clams. Otherwise go with a big gob of nightcrawlers. You might also try my favorite channel catfish bait, frozen squid.

As cyberfish said we use ghost shrimp and ell , but i also use rowe ..we have done very well with those ..JOHN

Not sure if you can see it very well but that is a sturgeon that i'm holding in that pic under my name....JOHN

in the st. clair river in michigan we have big lake sturgeon and in michigan gobys [an invasive species] are like sturgeon candy!

I know Im way late on this blog but Ive tried many different baits for lake sturgeon. Shrimp, catfish bait, cut baits. shiners a bunch of fathead minnows on the hook. and the one thing that ive gottem every time was a ball of nightcrawlers. dont leave them stringy and hanging off. hide the hook in worms. and the smaller the hook the better. but it also has to be strong enough to not straghten out. I use number two catfish hooks. I can fit about 3 big crawlers. As for using eel and lampray I think thats more of a white and green sturgeon bait.