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Lake Sakakawea Fishing Reports
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Lake Sakakawea | Van Hook Arm | New Town / "River" Area | Beulah / Douglas Bay Area | Tobacco Gardens / White Earth Bay Area | Deepwater / McKenzie Bay Area | Indian Hills / Mahto (Red Butte) Bay Area | Garrison Bay / Pick City Area | East End | Garrison Dam Intake Area | Salmon Report - Lake Sakakawea
Lake Sakakawea - Monday, June 6, 2011
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Mad Dog
on 06/06/2011 2:22 PM
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Fished for four days in Van Hook and never got a bite. Did everything for jigging trees, slip bobbering, spinners, lindy's , fishing really shallow to really deep.... nothing not even a goldeye. I am afraid the Hook is dead until the end of July I think. Maybe catch some fish them
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Lake Sakakawea - Sunday, June 5, 2011 | |
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Went to Mels the last two days. Road north of dunn center it very uneven and rough from the fixing of pot holes. Water on the boat ramp is a couple feet from the top. On saturday we never made it past Fish point. Ended up keeping 2 walleye and one sauger. Overall very slow. If you want to know what the water looks like, pour a glass of chocolate milk, about the same thing with visability only 2-3 inches. Most fish were in the 12-15' depth. Went out again sunday, started where we caught some on Saturday and only a couple bites, no fish. ran around by Mckenzie with no luck. Went out past the mouth and found someones ice house floating in the middle of the lake............I can definately say that was a first for me. Tried around the picnic tables and whopper and nothing happening there either. Talked to a few other boats and a warden and it sounded if you had 2-3 keepers, you were doing well for yourself.
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Lake Sakakawea - Sunday, June 5, 2011 | |
Lake is dirty by the hook and lots of crap floating. Fished for the past two days and two nice saugers and one dink walleye. Very, very slow right now we tried everything. Good luck hopefully she heats up soon.
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Van Hook Arm - Sunday, June 5, 2011 | |
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Please, I need some good fishing reports for the Van Hook area, will be at Parshall Campground next week for 3 days 2 of which I am fishing in a small tourney. The last few years I have really struggled with fishing the lake as many have do to the higher water, but if anybody can spare a little info that would be great. I am thinking the water should be warmer and cleaner up in the northern hook area.
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Lake Sakakawea - Saturday, June 4, 2011 | |
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Any reports from Beulah west the past couple days?
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Deepwater / McKenzie Bay Area - Wednesday, June 1, 2011 | |
Seen a dozen boat trailers down at Mel's north of Dunn Center Sunday.Anybody catching anything?Want to get the boat out maybe this weekend. Also drove up to Beaver Bay.Waters alot cleaner up there.Hows the fishing up there?Post somebody???There was boats at both places.Thanks
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Lake Sakakawea - Sunday, May 29, 2011 | |
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Put in at White Earth Bay -- scooted across to south side and preceded to pick up 4 sauger and a real nice walleye-- 18- 25 ft-- lindy with a leech-- bottom bouncer with perch colored spinner tipped with a leech-- not a frenzied bite but a good afternoon-- water is very high and stained--- incredible
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Lake Sakakawea - Monday, May 23, 2011 | |
Fished sakakawea sunday and loaded up on northerns caught about 20 on daredevils and spoons. all on red and white and five diamonds. Fishing weed edges and flooded trees around a deep channnel
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Tobacco Gardens / White Earth Bay Area - Saturday, May 7, 2011 | |
Put in at Tobacco Gardens Saturday morning should have known it was gonna be bad when the dock was under two feet of water and the huge log laying across the ramp. But we tried it anyway, we took off and ran to the guard camp and up to lewis and clark state park then back over around the beacon. The only bite we had all day was a perch about six inches long. Between all the crap floating in the water and the fishing sucking I think im gonna wait til memorial day before I go back out.
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Tobacco Gardens / White Earth Bay Area - Sunday, May 8, 2011 | |
put in at tobacco yesterday ran to guard camp and lewis and clark. Fished all day and the only bite we had all day was was a perch about six inches long. Might be a little too early yet.
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Lake Sakakawea - Thursday, May 5, 2011 | |
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anybody fish lunds landing area by boat yet?
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Beulah / Douglas Bay Area - Thursday, May 5, 2011 | |
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The ice is almost gone in the Hazen/Beulah area. Just a little bit sitting at the mouths of the bays on the south side that had blown in. I would guess it would be all cleared up by the weekend.
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Lake Sakakawea - Saturday, April 30, 2011 | |
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thanks for the info
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Lake Sakakawea - Friday, April 29, 2011 | |
Lunds landing is open and so is lewis and clark
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Lake Sakakawea - Friday, April 29, 2011 | |
Geez, if the wind closes that gap we are trapped!
Half the battle was just gett’n to the lake. We are not short on water after a record snowfall and much of ND looks the same, a little past full. The other obstacle right now is cold temps have yet to let go of winter. Everything is frozen, even the sloughs are still mostly solid. Normally, ND live opens the season last week of April to 30 mph winds, 30 degree temps, and a trip to the Missouri. High water has the Missouri a little dirty and it’s pretty quiet at the Tail race right now. The thought is those fish that were biting like crazy 2 weeks ago have moved south for warmer water. Time to spawn. The search began for open water. Everything is frozen solid. Cripes, it’s the end of April, let winter go. Seems if you can find some moving water you can find a small section that has thawed a little. That is what we found at the northeast corner of Audubon. It ain’t much but with a lot of effort you can get a boat in it. Our 11 footer was salvaged from a friends pasture. The kids had been using it for a snow sled and just left it at the bottom of the hill. The idea is to keep it light. No GPS, depth finder, not even a livewell. In fact the best option is an old fashioned stringer. Once you get to the secret spot all you do is toss your anchor out on the ice, turn around and drop down a jig with a fathead minnow stuck through the head. This bite doesn’t last long and as soon as ice is out the bite is normally over. With Sakakawea still frozen but the itch to be on the lake, try looking for any area with water running into the lake. Places like White Earth, Shell Creek, Deep Water are all places to check. The moving water does two things, opens the ice cap and triggers the spawn. If you love the northern, Wolf Creek is a good option and is open right now. We had an awesome day with good weather and good fishing. Both of my school skipping boys out fished me, which for some reason seemed to delight them. To top it off, Levi found a Whitetail buck skull in the cattails. Geez, it’s good to be outside again! GPS Google Earth Locations, Video and Pictures of this report please visit: www.ndlive.com |
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