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Lake Sakakawea Fishing Reports
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Lake Sakakawea - Tuesday, July 5, 2005
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Jig-em-up-Josh
on 07/05/2005 2:56 PM
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Fished at Deepwater Bay this weekend. We caught lots of fish, but nothing to write home to mom about. I caught a 14 inch smallmouth, LOTS of 5-10 pound northerns, the biggest walleye I caught was about 3 pounds (I lost one that was a little bigger, it got wrapped around the anchor line) Shiners are about 1 dime for a dozen, and I caught probably 2 dozen. Caught a couple white bass, a 12 pound carp, and lost alot of spinners from big old water wolves. The guy I was fishing with caught a 7 pound eye, but pretty much they were all "cookie cutters" that were all about 18 inches. We pretty much just trolled the whole time using spinners and a couple split-shots in 9-12 feet of water, with crawlers, and occasionally picking one up jigging in 12-18 feet, or pulling cranks while we were trolling.
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Lake Sakakawea - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 | |
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My buddy, our boys, and I were out at Shell for an hour Sunday afternoon after "Trolling Pouch Pavement" (see Freaky Day on VH), and we picked up a 15 inch walleye, 2 shiners and a carp. My buddy just likes to reel in fish, so he was happy.
Sunday we got up at 6 AM and fished Shell adn East Eight Pound Flats until 9:45 AM. Picked up two walleye and a couple shiners. Other boats were doing about the same. Spinners with leeches and crawlers. Pretty slow. Later I heard other guys were doing well on the East side of Van Hook pulling cranks. Stizo :) |
Lake Sakakawea - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 | |
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Weekend fishing was average. Fished out of Wolf Creek on Saturday from about 3pm until 6pm. Managed to keep 5 nice walleyes. Had to keep a 26 inch fish because it was deep hooked and bleeding everywhere (I guess thats what I get for handing the pole to my wife while I reach in the cooler). Other fish were 17 - 22 inches, all on crawlers and lindys anywhere from 8 - 20 feet of water. Went over to tailrace for the night bite and sat at the ramp until midnight before we put in because of the storms. Ended up with another 5 walleyes 15 - 21 inches on floating raps. Went back up to Wolf creek yesterday and picked up another 5 walleyes in 2 hours (kept three 18 inchers). 18 feet seemed to be the magic number. Fished the back side of a point that extended out into the lake a ways, lindys and crawlers again. Good luck and safe fishin!!
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Lake Sakakawea - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 | |
We went fishing around beaver bay on friday. Started out shallow 12 foot but we werent picking up any walleye. We eventually pulled one out of 18 feet. We pulled a few more out of 20 feet or so. We found the fish were deeper and eventually got all the way up to 30 feet where we cought a nice 23 incher with a charteuse spinner and a bottom bouncer with a night crawler. I think the reason they were deeper was storms were on the horizon and heading our way.
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Lake Sakakawea - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 | |
School is out and that means fishing season has begun for me and I'm taking full advantage of it. Went out Friday to Van Hook and probably had one of my worst days that I've had in quite awhile. Went out in the afternoon and hardly caught anything at all. Just absolutely couldn't catch a fish. Was out of town for the weekend but went today and was also kind of slow although we did do better. Caught quite a few small ones and only had 3 between 15-18 inches and then decided to try cranking and caught a real nice pair of 21 and 22 inch fish. I really think that if you want bigger fish you are going to have to go to deeper water. We picked up the smaller fish on lindy's with crawlers/leeches in 8-12 feet and the two bigger fish on cranks in 18-20 feet. The weather is going to be beautiful this week which means the fishing should only get better and I'll be out Tuesday-Thursday so I'll hopefully have some more reports for you guys.
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Lake Sakakawea - Monday, July 4, 2005 | |
we fished sat. and today . Saturday went really well, we ended with 11 nice fish. lindys with a worm worked best for us in 10 to 20 feet of water. today I landed one 4lb walleye thats it.
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Lake Sakakawea - Monday, July 4, 2005 | |
we were fishing in the mid section. using crawlers and leeches, caught fish from 15- 30 feet
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Lake Sakakawea - Monday, July 4, 2005 | |
Hey swamp
I was out saturday also and was all over. Where were you fishing at, and what were you using. Also what depth were you fishing. Were you fishing flats? Just kind of curious. Thanks |
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Lake Sakakawea - Monday, July 4, 2005 | |
Fished friday, saturday, and today. Friday we went west and it was pretty slow we ended up with a couple keepers. Saturday went really well, we caught around 30 fish kept 15, but had some nice fish between 18" and 24". This morning went alright but had trouble finding size. And then it started raining so came home for a while
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Lake Sakakawea - Monday, July 4, 2005 | |
Fished friday and saturday starting out pretty early. Was out on water at about 8 each morning. Fished on friday till around 3. Ended up only with 3 keeper fish. Really slow day. Saturday fished all day till 6:30. Tried spinners of all colors, lindies, everything. Kept 7 keepers all day. Nobody I talked to had limited or came close. Boats all over. Caught fish from 10-20 ft. Good Luck
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Lake Sakakawea - Sunday, July 3, 2005 | |
We fished the east end all day Saturday. Fished the seven sisters area, Mallard Island points, and other shorelines. We had a slow day with 2 small walleyes in 12 feet with lindys and crawlers. Many boats, but didn't see too many fish caught.
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Lake Sakakawea - Saturday, July 2, 2005 | |
send me your big fishing pictures and I choose one a week to put on my website. send them to James_Owens1@hotmail.com It would be appreciated if you'd send because I'm trying to get my site going. Thank you for reading this!
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Lake Sakakawea - Friday, July 1, 2005 | |
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I caught a limit of 14-17 inch walleye and also a sauger and another tiny walleye both of which I released today, but it took from 10:30 AM until 6:00 PM to get it done. 7 fish total. Pretty slow. Missed a fewbites too. Crawlers and leeches on sninners, Eight Pound Flats had the most activity. It was a freaky day. I will save the story of my fishing day from hell for the forum. Stizo :)
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Lake Sakakawea - Friday, July 1, 2005 | |
Just got back from the big lake. Fished from 8:00 until 5:00. Caught 16 walleyes, 1 bass. Took forever to find them but once I did it was pretty fast and furious. Used lindy rig with crawlers in 11-17 ft. of water.
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Lake Sakakawea - Friday, July 1, 2005 | |
fished out of beulah bay this morning and went west. pretty slow. didn't look like anyone was doing to great. managed to land a 4lb and a 2lb. the rest where small. skipjacks started biting, moved a couple times with no luck. pulled cranks, no luck. Everyone was just sort of wandering around, lots of head scratching today. Were marking them in 11ft and 19ft right on the bottom. all were caught on crawlers. water temp was 64*. Think the recent storms has everyone confused....even the fish. Didn't see a limit at the cleaning station yet in the last week or so.
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