Fishing Report Lakes Oahe/Sharpe Pierre area for November 9th thru 18th 2015

[Hutch]

It is the tail end of the open water season around Pierre and there are still a surprising number of boats out especially on some of these great Indian summer days. The bite is somewhere between decent and excellent on both Sharpe and Oahe. I have been on the water just about every day fishing hunters and then a great trip fishing and hunting with friend Mark Dorn son Jake and son in law Randy. We had both limit fishing and limit hunting for another annual fall trip that ended in success. All of these trips produced either limits or 6 to 10 walleyes if fishing just a few hours. We caught most of these fish either pulling plugs (flicker Shads) or with jigs/minnows /gulp in 10 fow or less within 15 miles of Pierre on Sharpe. Oahe can be really good especially for over 20 inch fish in depths from 3 fow to 15 fow with most of the action generated by tailing jig/minnow/chubs way back or casting them away from the boat. Not as much traffic on the big lake any more so have a buddy boat around or a real good running boat to fish out of is smart as a break down now will probably leave you on the lake alone especially during the week or if weather is iffy. Water temps are in the 40's in most areas. Bird hunting is super on private land but requires a lot of guns and dogs to work most of the public ground around Pierre as birds are wilder now. There are probably not a lot of open water days left unless El Ninio keeps the winter mild so my reports will be less frequent.

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