October 28th to 31st Lake Oahe and Lake Sharpe, Pierre SD Fishing Report

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The fall fishing/ hunting in the Pierre area is excellent. The Lake Oahe northern pike bite has come back on as a lot of these species have moved back along with the walleye/smallmouth bass into the shallow's. The how of it is minnow/Gulp presentations and the where is around the Cow creek/ area to the Cheyenne river/ Bush's Landing area's. Most fish are being taken in 20 fow or less with many coming from less than 10 fow. Sharpe is also good but experience counts as the fishermen who know the system are limiting on just about every outing with nice walleye. Night crawlers still work better on Sharpe some days. I fished Troy Coats and his brother from Missouri to a nice limit of walleye to 24 inches and some big northern to 34 inches and a lot of smallmouth bass. The weather was great and we had a great time. I then hunted and fished the Gordy Sorenson Roberts Pump/Franklin electric group. Once again we had great weather and just a great bunch of guys. They shot there limit of pheasant's for a half a day and then caught a great bunch of fish with many over walleye and a lot of northern pike (one fish well over 20 Lbs.) and plenty of smallmouth bass. These kind of trips this time of year are a great way to go. I have mentioned weather several time's because it is such a big factor late in the season. If you come to hunt and fish and the weather is bad you can hunt bird's and leave the fishing for another nice day but if the weather is good so is the fishing. Both the groups above got lucky and had those great Indian summer days and for many a trip of a life time both catching fish and shooting limits of birds. It is great for company's like Roberts Pump/ Franklin electric to put on trips like this for there honored employee's and all of us Guides/resort's appreciate the business big time. From me and all the guide's a very big thank you. If you can still get over to Pierre and the weather holds the fishing is excellent when the weather is and the pheasant hunting/bird numbers are great. Some geese are in the area but very few are being shot/hunted.

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