Lakes Oahe/Sharpe Pierre area fishing report for June 28th thru July 3rd 2014

[Hutch]

Weather has been a factor in recent days with rain/wind making fishing much tougher when the weather is a factor. I guided the DSI drywall /Knuth group from Lincoln Ne.to one much tougher day on Oahe with all the guides struggling in lots of rain. We all caught some fish but quit early to get out of the rain. The second day everyone of the boats brought limits of walleye and some smallmouth at West bend on Sharpe. I then guided repeat customer Kurt Jones and sons for one day in big wind (gusts to 50) on the river in Pierre having limited results.We then spent day two at West Bend and once again when the weather was nice caught over 40 walleye and bass at the Bend keeping nice limits of 17 inch avg. size walleye and some real nice bass.A real nice family and the DSI group of guys was great. We caught most of the walleye at West Bend in around 30 fow on crawler bouncer  rigs and the smallmouth in around 10 fow on crawlers or gulp.The fishing on Oahe for walleye is still going for numbers of fish however putting larger walleye in the boat is harder. Lots of little walleye but most boats struggle to get many over 15 inch fish. Smallmouth fishing can be good on Oahe and is very good for big smallies on Sharpe.Minnows, leeches, crawlers and pulling plugs are all working.The water level on Oahe is high with the lake full due to reduced discharges and snow rain/ run off.

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