oahe stocking.

[REW]

The article would read a lot better if it said that 100 Million shad had been planted.

A few hundred shad in a body of water this size will make essentially 0 difference.

REW

[suntracker]

there are a bunch in here from shadehill with the high water and no winter we had last year. There will be alot of shad showing up shortly going of past years. caught a bunch in the smelt nets this spring

[dmel]

I just spent the last 3 days on lake sharpe and with 3 people in my boat and we caught and released large numbers of walleye every day and these fish are skinny! Where are they catching these large numbers of gizzard shad to release in Oahe if the fish on sharpe are starving!

[suntracker]

the gizzard shad come from shade hill resevior over by lemmon. they get in oahe when the water goes over the spill way then travel up the grand to the lake. sharpe has all the smelt that were in oahe and every one i have talked to said the fish are fatter than **** there are you sure you are talking about the right res.

[dmel]

I fished from the DeGrey area cleared to the big bend dam and I know the fish are skinny. All the fish in francis case are really fat! I grew up and lived on the this river for 25 yrs so I am very familiar with this river1

[gillysmi]

yup been fishing sharpe and LFC. fish much fatter on LFC than above the dam.

http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=132577

I'm assuming that you have a mistype with the number of 1800. That would be the equivalent of feeding all the cattle in South Dakota one square bale. The fish are small, skinny and the long fish are even very small. Once again the Corp. has the river system back to where the poor people in Mobridge will watch there tourism profits dwindle to nothing. Maybe that is what creates a great story. This one would start. Remember back in the day? I think it was in 2011 when you could actually catch a decent fish....ahhhhhh those were the good ole days.

These did not come from Sharpe. There are no Gizzard Shad in Sharpe. Perhaps a like from the glacial lakes area... or from a fish hatchery. Either way. I guess it is something

[doug1542]

Bandaid,
For you to say there are no gizzard shad in Lake Sharpe shows you have no clue what you are talking about. That's all that needs to be said.

[Traxion]

Originally Posted by doug1542

Bandaid,
For you to say there are no gizzard shad in Lake Sharpe shows you have no clue what you are talking about. That's all that needs to be said.

I agree. Here's a little education-

http://gfp.sd.gov/fishing-boating/ta...ingOutlook.pdf

I can't for the life of me find the articles that told of the total # stocked, total # of offspring, and the locations. One showed the adult shad, they're BIG fish. I think some people are thinking they dumped 1800 minnows in there. It's about the offspring of those 1800. The article, from my fuzzy memory, was 300,000 per adult. Maybe a drop in the bucket, who knows. Better than nothing though.

Edit- Here is one article that discusses the amount stocked and where they came from, the same article you posted.

http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail61...ahe/?Id=132577

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BjS4...1&feature=plcp