June 5th - 8th Lakes Oahe/Sharpe, Pierre SD Fishing Report

[Hutch]

Lots of boats around and they are all catching a lot of fish. The bite for all species is excellent. The fish are biting just about anything you want to fish with. I finished guiding Larry Porters Wessal group from NE catching limits of walleye with many over's numerous small mouth and Northern and then went on to guide The Dale Vandyke family from NE. to limits of walleye, some nice northern and some small mouth bass. We caught these fish using bttmbouncer/minnows or crawlers with most of the bigger fish coming in 5 fow to 7 fow. We caught fish all the way out to 20 fow but it seemed that the deeper we got the smaller the fish From the dam all the way up the river to the 212 bridge you can have all the action you want but there are big numbers of 14 inch fish around so releasing them very carefully comes into play. Most boats are working out a 17 to 18 inch avg size limits with a few over 20 inch fish every day. Sharpe is excellent also with the West Bend area producing lots of fish. I have been thinking about using more minnows along with Gulp as it also seems that you get less swallowed hooks on minnows. Once again I will mention that for the most part the fish in the areas I am fishing seem healthy enough but they are just biting all the time so even though I am seeing bait around a worry is there about bait hatches this spring. From my viewpoint it is just to good but part of this could be huge numbers of the 3 year ago walleye hatch making fishing easy. One nice thing is this year you don't seem to see big groups of boats all in one spot indicating every one catching fish just about everywhere.

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