May 21st to 23rd Lakes Oahe/Sharpe, Pierre SD Fishing Report

[Hutch]

The bigger female fish are for the most part over the spawning recuperation period and starting to bite producing some real nice stringers of fish on Oahe. I guided Luke, Jake, Will and Dave Gideon from Burwell Ne. to an example of this with them catching possession limits of walleye with all of these boys catching there over fish (23 inchers) and throwing back at least 40 fish or more to end up with the rest of there slot fish running 18 to 19 inches. We caught all of these fish in around 5 fow to 10 fow drifting night crawlers. I then guided Bill Sterrup and his son to nice limits of both walleye and smallmouth bass but this trip was in big time wind (40 mph gusts) so we quit fairly early to get off the lake. All of these fish seemed to be healthy but hungry and easy to catch. The walleye, northern & catfish bite is excellent on Oahe with the better area's being from the Cheyenne river up to the 212 bridge. Most fish being caught on bttm/bouncer crawler or minnow rigs but both jig fishing and trolling plugs are working. Staying shallow seems to produce bigger avg. size fish but there are fish in 17 to 20 fow. Lake Sharpe is still very good from Pierre down to the Big Bend area with crawlers working there also. I have no information on the salmon bite but I believe it is not good.

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