Lake Oahe/Lake Sharpe Pierre area fishing report for Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2012

[Hutch]

The fishing on Sharpe around Pierre is maintaining a steady catch rate of nice walleye in the 15 inch to 19 inch range with some over 20 inchers in a few daily limits. Once again for the fishermen who know the holes or area's to fish, limits are the norm with many guide boats catching 20 to 30 fish a day and keeping the nicer ones. For me the bite here has still been on crawlers but I am aware that some boats are doing well on minnows or shallow running plugs trolled. Here my favorite is a Berkeley flicker shad usually in just pearl white. Some anglers fishing in community spot's struggle to catch a lot of fish and more of the smaller walleye but that is due to heavy fishing pressure reducing numbers of quality fish. Traveling to area's with less fishing pressure usually pays off. Oahe is still doing just great on smallmouth (around 10 to 20 fow) but nicer walleye are scattered. Here again guides or local fishermen that know the lake are coming in with plenty of fish. Pitching jigs/gulp is sure worth a try in many areas but there are still a lot of walleyes way out deep chasing smelt. I guided a real nice couple from Redfield SD to a nice limit of walleye avg. 17 inches on Sharpe. We caught these fish way East of Pierre in 10 fow on nightcrawler/ Bouncer rigs. Kelly and Amber Siebrect came over to Pierre to celebrate a wedding anniversary and decided to make a part of that a walleye trip and they had a great time getting nice weather and nice fishing Great couple and once again I got real lucky having the chance to guide them. The fall weather has been excellent and the fishing is good. Not a bad time to sneak off if you can.

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