June 14th - 17th Lakes Oahe/Sharpe, Pierre SD Fishing Report

[fishinghutch]

The fishing on Oahe continues to be as good as it gets. Just about every boat out in the Pierre area (dam to bush's landing) coming in with limits of walleye plenty of northern pike and smallmouth bass. The size sometimes is smaller for those boats not wanting to release the nice eating size walleye (14 to 15 inch fish) and you have to throw a lot of fish that size back to build a bigger overall avg stringer if that is what you want to keep. I guided repeat customers, Dave, Rex, and Mike Reezac to two great days of limits of walleye's averaging well over 18 inch's catching and releasing at least 75 fish daily to do this. Mike had the largest a 28 incher but all the brothers caught big fish and we had a great time also catching a few big northern and some smallmouth. I then took out repeat customers Randy and Randy Downing from Sioux Falls and Rapid City, SD to great limits of all there over's and around a nice 18 inch avg on the rest of the limits doing the same just keeping 17 inch fish or better. Dad Randy caught the biggest of the bunch a nice 24 incher. All these fish were caught in 10 fow to 20 fow on bttm/bouncer crawler bttm bouncer gulp worms and some on leeches fishing out of the cow creek /spring creek area on Oahe.

Hutch

[Brotsky]

Hutch, what kind of condition are the fish in? Skinny/fat/somwhere in between?

[jjk]

Brotsky I can't speak for Hutch but have been down there the last 3 weeks in a row and the fish we have been catching have looked good. Not overly fat but not the skinny looking ones I have heard of from further north in the system? Fishing is as good as i have seen it

[Ned]

Further North (akaska -pollock area)

The most recent tourney's have been weighing a 28" fish in the 5-6.0lb range. Some bigger.

Not your typical hawg belllied walleyes Oahe normally is putting out.

One fish will look very healthy and the next one, not so much.

[Brotsky]

Originally Posted by Ned

Further North (akaska -pollock area)

The most recent tourney's have been weighing a 28" fish in the 5-6.0lb range. Some bigger.

Not your typical hawg belllied walleyes Oahe normally is putting out.

One fish will look very healthy and the next one, not so much.

That's what I was afraid of....I think by July and into the late summer the skinny ones will be the rule and not the exception.

[njmccorkle]

Originally Posted by Ned

Further North (akaska -pollock area)

The most recent tourney's have been weighing a 28" fish in the 5-6.0lb range. Some bigger.

Not your typical hawg belllied walleyes Oahe normally is putting out.

One fish will look very healthy and the next one, not so much.

Yes. I fished out of Mobridge Friday and Saturday. Having grown up in town I can't ever remember the fishing being this good. Granted, I never had a boat that would allow us to get out on even slightly gnarly days until this season.

Lots of little stuff in there. You'll catch 1-2 ten/12 incher for every 14+ fish you catch. We managed one over each day but were only out for 4 hours each day. Stuff had to be done at my parents' place, so we weren't too picky, but we had a ton of fun.

Here's the catch from Saturday. Fish seem skinnier when they came out of the water compared to this picture. Bottom right fish was near 24" and 3.5 pounds according to our cheap scale.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...n/Saturday.jpg