July 28 to 29 Lakes Oahe/Sharpe, Pierre SD Fishing Report

[Hutch]

I finished guiding Gary Loseke and Jared Sprunk from down around Platte Center and Monroe NE and then guided retired schoolteacher Jerry from Iowa and grandson Mike from Pierre. to possession limits and limits of walleye with a few northern and a few bass. Fished both these party's primarily way in the back of creeks or on the flats. There are hatches of some kind of bait going on in many of the feeder creeks right now and were ever you find these there will be walleye. We pulled spinner night crawler or spinner gulp on bottom bouncers mostly in around 12 to 17 fow in the creeks but fished deeper (28 to 35 fow) when on the main lake flats. It is harder to come up with the 18 inch and up fish than it has been. I think the reason might be many are chasing suspended bait on the main lake and maybe down deep.(45 to 50 fow) Also as I mentioned many are finding the hatches in back of the creeks making running them down a little harder. Although I haven't been down on Sharpe those fishing there are doing well and 17 inch limits of fish or better are not uncommon. All ways are working this summer so if you are a plug fisherman a lindy or Jig angler or whatever you can probably come home with limits of walleye but the avg. size limit seems to be getting smaller on the under 20 inch fish with more people keeping the 14 inch fish know. If you are going to use the little bend boat ramp be careful. GF&P has closed the right side and the left side has 2 fow. Foster bay in the back of the Cheyenne is closed due to dropping water so if you are planning on using some of the out of the way ramps better check the boat ramp reports on GF&P site.

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