Minnesota Outdoorsman
Midwest Neighbors => South Dakota => Hutch's fishing reports (Lake Sharpe and Lake Oahe) => Topic started by: Hutch on June 06/27/17, 09:39:06 PM
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Once again guided some of my great repeat customer groups for a great outing sending them home with full possession limits of walleye along with some meals while they were here. The Shaun Callahan (the voice of NE Cornhusker football) along with dad Pat Callahan (former Big Red Lineman) and group caught their fish on bouncer/nightcrawler or minnow rigs fishing both shallow and deep on Oahe and (5 fow to 25 fow) and fishing around 25 fow on Sharpe the second day. These guys are experienced fishermen so made the guide jobs easy and fun. One thing I will mention is the large 14 inch year class fish on Sharpe. Many boats are catching up to 50 fish a day and ending up not keeping limits. I have said before the key to this fishery for us guides is to fish away from picked over community spots and get on humps that are away from the heavy boat traffic. This means sometimes fishing in real snaggy (trees) spots that most boats avoid. This tactic will put a bigger ratio of keeper fish and bigger overs in the bag for you but will require more time to find and fish these kind of places but well worth the effort. In this Callahan group Shaun landed a 25 inch 5 to 6 lb. walleye along with numerous 18 to 19 inch walleye fishing right along trees (while I tied on around 10 bottom bouncer rigs that we snagged up) and a 25 incher is a real nice walleye for Sharpe and the others made for real nice stringers for this group. For some going thru this kind of effort isn't realistic but still the catching of 50 fish a day makes for a lot of fun for most. A reminder for those coming after July 1st until September 1st the 15 inch slot limit goes off so these 14 3/4 inch walleye can work their way into frying pans making for a lot of fish meals. I started to use smilee spinner blades on some of the rigs and they seem to work great. Many of the guides have been using these little spinners so if you haven't tried them they are easy to tie and can be worked at a faster speed. When releasing numbers of fish you will get less deep hooked fish along with minnow fishing and pulling plugs so that is also a plus.
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