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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
New Town / "River" Area - Monday, July 4, 2011
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johnr
on 07/05/2011 3:32 PM
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Picked up a few walleye here and there in the bays, on crawlers in about 9-14 fow, tried the new town marina bay picked up 2 in the morning about 18 inchers, went down to reunion bay took the rest of the afternoon and tons of northerns and several busted spinners to catch three more.
Wasnt the fast and furious action that i was told about last week. My son did however catch a 31 inch Northern on a crappie rod, was pretty exciting. The end of the day we had 5 in the 18-20 inch range |
Garrison Bay / Pick City Area - Monday, July 4, 2011 | |
Fished a few hours by sportsmans centennial Sunday night. caught 4 walleye, 5 northern, few smallmouth, lots of perch. steady action. Spinners and earth worms in 10 feet. |
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Garrison Bay / Pick City Area - Sunday, July 3, 2011 | |
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fished garrison bay yesterday, used crawlers in flooded grass areas from shore drug back on lindys and jigs. red or orange hooks & jigs. keeping the bait moving seemed to catch more walleyes and dead sticks caught everything else...I mean everything. carp, pike, smallys, white bass, goldeyes, suckers, perch, catfish, drum, etc.
ended up with a limit of 20" walleyes |
Deepwater / McKenzie Bay Area - Sunday, July 3, 2011 | |
Fishing wasnt that great yet around Mel's area.We went way up towards the mouth.Graphed fish but no takers.Caught one walleye 14"around Scoria Flats and alittle perch.That was it.All around a pretty good day.Water temp's from 70-75.Tried worms ,minnows and whatever we thought would work.Tried shallow and deeper.Must of lost my touch.But will keep trying.
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Deepwater / McKenzie Bay Area - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | |
Wanting to head up to Mel's on Saturday.Anybody having any luck finding them marbleeyes? Water should be clearing up by now.Help me out people.Not asking for the "Hot Spots". Just want so info an what everybodys trying and depths everybodies trying.Thanks!
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Tobacco Gardens / White Earth Bay Area - Sunday, June 26, 2011 | |
Warm grassy water + Wind = Walleye. Yup.
Got a late start as the battery for our motor went dead over winter, first time out this year. Was hoping to get out earlier this year but so busy with lots of things, and bad weather. Put in at white earth and saw the water was stained but not as muddy as it looks, can see a foot in it at least. Took my new wife out for the first time ever fishing for walleye and she had the hot pole today. Water was warm, 68-70 degrees so we fished shallow with cranks. In the bay we hooked into a fish but never landed it but we moved around the point to the girl scout camp and thats where my walleye senses started to tingle. Grassy shore with waves beating onto it, up behind the trees from years past. She got the first one... little guy but still a keeper, and the second one about 10 minutes later a nice big 4 pounder and boy did she smile for that. biggest fish she has ever caught. then it was more small walleye, 12-13 inch all in the same little hole we found. we took 11 keepers from noon until 5 pm when it just stopped dead. My dad managed to catch 2 more of those nice big ones and we had a few in the 17 inch range as well.
At the cleaning station it was 11 walleye and probably the best walleye fishing i have found in 2 years. Firetiger JSR-7 and Little Ripper Deep Firetiger were the hot lures for the day though we did manage 2 fish from lindy rigs and crawlers once the cranks turned off when the wind died.
Did not see many other boats out and did not see any other fish caught besides ours, talked to 1 other boat they had 2. We noticed everybody seemed to be fishing to deep, trying in the 16 foot range, we found our fish 8 to 12 feet, mostly kept the boat right in 10.5 feet. |
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Garrison Bay / Pick City Area - Saturday, June 25, 2011 | |
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shorefished with the kids at Ft. Stevenson saturday. Used nightcrawlers on lindys, bobbers, and jigs. fished flooded grass areas. managed to reel in 5 20" walleyes, missed quite a few others at shore since the little ones aren't real good at setting hooks yet. also caught several drum, catfish, smallmouth bass, goldeyes, lots of perch (some 8 to 9"), carp, white suckers. |
East End - Saturday, June 18, 2011 | |
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Fished mainly back bays in Douglas Bay. Fished all the way back in the bay past the cabin site with only a perch and a northern. Pulled lindys while pitching jigs into shallow water. Water temps 59- 62 degees and very dirty. Tried out closer to main lake where water was a liitle clearer but still nothing. Went all the way west to the Douglas Bay campground road. Nothing . Ended up by campgrounds and caught about a dozen big perch and one slimmer. Kept enough perch for supper. Graphed very few fish any stops we made. Fished from 3-45 ft. Talked to others on water, all with same results. Probably have to wait till water warms up.
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Van Hook Arm - Friday, June 10, 2011 | |
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I fished Friday evening through Sunday early afternoon. Well the fishing sucked. On Friday we fished the Shell Creek area, working from depth of 3ft to 26 ft, the only thing landed was a northern and small white bass, however it was a very nice evening to be out fishing. Saturday fished from 7-2pm. Started out very nice day, no wind, sunny then the wind came up, wanted to head south but didn't want to fight the waves, fished Shell Creek again, nothing. Headed back into Parshall Bay, a caught 1 nice W. Bass. Sunday, morning wind again so fished the deeper depth of Shell Creek areas in the 35ft depth, picked up a perch. The wind went down finally so we head south and picked up another perch. Fished some more rocky points and caught 5 northerns, 3 more perch, descent sauger. Much better, not great but at least we were getting bites. Fishing is very slow, only seen a hand full of people catch 1 to 3 fish each day. But I still had a good time lov to fish. |
Lake Sakakawea - Friday, June 10, 2011 | |
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Started in Skunk, first drop in 40 fow 24" hammer handle. Third drop, 22" cat. Went to Independence jugged up two saugers in 45 fow. Clouds started moving in so we called it a day.
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Van Hook Arm - Saturday, June 11, 2011 | |
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Went out of Van Hook this weekend. Fishing was absolutely poor.depths ranged from 4-20 ft. and could not manage one bite. Tried every where on the north shore of the van hook arm. Water was 55 in most places and maxed out at 57 in some places. I only heard one report out of many of anyone catching walleyes.
Fished offshore on Sunday and managed 6 nice white bass and two small catfish on a jig and gulp or bobber and leach. I should have done that all weekend instead. |
East End - Tuesday, June 14, 2011 | |
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Well, after a good weekend with around 18 hours on the water and every presentation I could think of, there were no walleye's boated! Went out of Pick City and fished mallard island, douglas bay, and a good portion of the southwest shoreline with nothing to report. It was as if we were fishing the dead sea! I found a small northern or two up inb douglas bay, spoted what looked like some nice walleyes in 3 ft or so of water in the trees off of an island but we were unsuccessfull in landing any. Had a few short bites while pitching jigs into the trees and had some action with some bass on spinner baits but overall fishing was very slow. I figured I should have been at audobon which I can report that there were boats at the clean station both friday and sunday as I drove by, didn't see a single boat at the pickcity cleaning station. Apparently I wasn't the only one that found fishing tough!
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Lake Sakakawea - Monday, June 13, 2011 | |
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Fishing on par with that I predicted. Tough conditions for walleyes and some life for saugers. Although, even the sauger bite is what I'd consider pretty slow.
I actually didn't even specifically try for sauger this weekend. Figured it is June in Sakakawea so fishing should be lights out. Ha ha...um...okay Tim. Ya, fishing was very slow for walleyes. In fact, zero were boated. I tried shallow specifically looking for that rebound bite many talk about. Never happened. Caught quite a few northern, some small mouth and got into a crappie for the second time this year. Had some short bites again so think they were crappie. The good news is I think I missed two good walleye or sauger bites. No idea on size, just felt "decent. Set the hook, heft and then boink....off. Fun. Water temps are around 58 degrees. Yes, cool but still, it is June in Sak. Think I will be trying next weekend up in the back bays again and near inlets. Otherwise, think I'll get myself a new driver and 3 wood and enjoy my summer. ..... Yeah, I know. Bit harsh but seriously... |
Lake Sakakawea - Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | |
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Fished the river below the New Town bridge on Sunday with fair results. Took a half dozen sauger/saugeye 22 to 39 ft on jigs and lindys with minnows. Water condition is fair. Not nearly as murkey as I had expected. Fished Van Hook on Monday. Water was crystal clear and 55 degrees with a small amount of trash in the water. Fished shallow in the north end, Probst and Moore (top at 18 ft), south side of Gull in shallow water, and the far NE corner of Shell Creek. Not a bite so its back to the river as soon as the weather breaks.
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Lake Sakakawea - Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | |
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Fished the river below the New Town bridge on Sunday with fair results. Took a half dozen sauger/saugeye 22 to 39 ft on jigs and lindys with minnows. Water condition is fair. Not nearly as murkey as I had expected. Fished Van Hook on Monday. Water was crystal clear and 55 degrees with a small amount of trash in the water. Fished shallow in the north end, Probst and Moore (top at 18 ft), south side of Gull in shallow water, and the far NE corner of Shell Creek. Not a bite so its back to the river as soon as the weather breaks.
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