June 22nd & 23rd Oahe Report

[Hutch]

Just about everywhere from the Cheyene river up to Akaska the fish are biting. Alot of juvenile fish this year all over so the future fishery on Oahe is looking very good. On a very windy day on Wednesday and a nicer day Thursday I helped guide the BP group for the Outpost Lodge. A great bunch of guys and everyone caught some fish. I fished the Whitlock bay area and the fish had moved out a little deeper to the 15 to 20 ft. range but we still caught them on crawler/bouncer rigs. Some guides pulled plugs and some used minnow/bouncers so alot of ways working. Heard of a few big fish coming from 30 ft. deep but for the most part I still think you have a better chance hooking a lunker in shallow water. If I just wanted a big walleye I think I would still pitch jigs with berkley porgy gulp into tips of gravel points in 3 to 4ft of water.Harder work than dragging bouncer's but if a trophy is what you are after it is probaly your best odds. Watch your depth finder on the lake. There are alot of points running way out into the lake with the higher water. Salmon still spotty, smallmouth excellent and northern pike good.

Hutch

[Dan R.]

Thank's for the report Hutch