Lake Oahe (North Dakota) - Sunday, July 3, 2011

Well day 2 of the 4th weekend takes us from docking in at beaver creek bay in sak to beaver bay in Oahe.  I had heard the stories of logs floating etc in the main channel.   The bay and the main channel had some logs floating --- keep your eyes open and dont go to fast and you should be alright.  I heard a merc wind up like he hit one and spun the prop.  No issues as far as getting around.    Anyway back to the report:  - a bunch of boats lined up against the bridge wall.   We had to check it out just in case if the bite was going.   From what we caught in that area --- all dinks and crappie.   We spent to much time doing that and then made the decission to go out into the main lake and try it.   I told my son lets try crankin this mud -- i went and tied on my medium cranks and small cranks with leadcore to get them down.  My son opens his tackle box and puts on a super sized walley diver (mag).   I looked at him and shook my head.  We started to roll and boom two fish on his cranks right away--- i thought they were northerns ---- i told him take the most bent over one first and i tried to maintain the boat.   Nice pig  26 and then another pig 21.   Well i hurried and put two big cranks on mine--- the problem was i only had one other cranking rod without lead core .   We ran a  bombers, a thunderstick and mag wally diver.  The FOW was 15-19   We ended up catching 4 more ---  20 and a three dinks.  The wind really came up and the fish went shallow in my opinion.   White bass moved in and that ended our afternoon picking up 3  of em.    We spent to much time in the bay and should of hit the mud right away -- as the bite seemed good right away.   Water temp was 67 --- to 74 in the bay.

Dont be scared of the mud or the logs fish the spots you fished last year and you will be surprised.    Go big on your bait or go home.   Let em hear ya.

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Region: Lake Oahe (North Dakota)

Categories: Fishing