September 11th to 14th Lake Oahe and Lake Sharpe, Pierre SD Fishing Report

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The fall bite is in full swing on Lake Sharpe with limits of walleye in the 16 inch to 18 inch range common for most boats. The fish are all over but the majority of the fish coming from around 8 fow along weed lines/sand bars. Lake Oahe is also still very good and a good number of fish are coming back up shallow making for catching them in 20 fow or less real possible especially in the back of creeks that have a lot of bait present. I fished the 2nd group of guys Lonnie Wann of the Agri Grow Corp brings up annually mostly from down NE way. A great bunch of guys and they had a great trip taking home possession limits of walleye, some northern pike and a good amount of smallmouth bass. We fished two days on Sharpe and one day in the Cheyenne river arm of Oahe and we caught a least 50 fish a day or more in both places. I was using spinner/bouncer rigs with crawlers and had guides Dave Spaid and NE John helping me and they used gulp on plain hooks or crawlers and all boats caught fish all day long all three days. Many presentations are working from minnow fishing to pulling plugs but on Sharpe due to a lot of floating weeds I think the live bait fishing is better but even then you have to clean plenty of grass off of the bouncers. The weather has been picture perfect making for a lot of real happy anglers. As good as it is I think it will get even better as water temps cool with 30 degree nights coming. Be prepared to fish around other boats as the week ends are real busy on Sharpe. If that bothers you you can catch plenty of fish on Oahe and boat traffic is minimal. A tip on Oahe. Look in the back of big creek arms for bait fish and if they are present the walleye will be there and in shallow water (10fow or less).

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