Fishing Report Lakes Oahe/Sharpe Pierre are for May 7th thru the 11th 2016

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The spawn on both Oahe and Sharpe is for the most part done with male walleye's hanging around spawning area's. These are the fish that are providing the best action/catch's on both lake's. I finished guiding Zach and friend Roger from down Kansas way catching catfish /northern to round out there trip as they had full possession limits of smallmouth and walleye. Roger got a real nice northern in the 16 lb. class along with 20 catfish. We caught these fish on dead smelt in the back of creeks/bays on Oahe in very shallow warmer water fishing slip bobbers/smelt. A real nice trip for a couple of great guys. Then fished the Jerry Fennel party of repeat customers from Ne KS Colorado and Wisconsin to great smallmouth and walleye fishing at West Bend on Sharpe and northern /catfish on Oahe. We caught all of the different species in warmer shallow stained water with the walleye/ bass hitting either jigs/gulp or bottom bouncer/minnow. Smelt for the cats and northern. Overall most nice days are producing limits however bad weather days can make for more work to come in with limits. The open water fishing is good and should get better every day as water temps move up. I have heard of a few salmon being caught around the dam.

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