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As your Lake Oahe fishing guide, we strive to do anything possible to put you on fish. We’re on the water almost every day of the week so we’re on top of the hot bite. Lake Oahe is one of the Midwest’s best kept secrets, with an abundance of quality walleyes like so few waters we’ve experienced. Most of our bait presentations include trolling to cover water and entice big fish to strike. At times, we will also run live bait rigs, spinners, and jigs. Usually we don’t switch to these presentations until mid-summer and fall. Most days of the water boasts easy limits, but at certain times of the year the fish can migrate in and out of certain stretches of the lake and it can be tougher fishing. We are honest and will be upfront with you about current fishing reports and what you can expect for fishing action. Your safety fishing Lake Oahe is important, and your total experience is what matters. Our Lake Oahe fishing guides will provide nothing short of a great experience all around.
Lake Oahe information from Wikipedia:
Lake Oahe (oh-WAH’-hee) is a large reservoir behind Oahe Dam on the Missouri River beginning in central South Dakota and continuing north into North Dakota in the United States. The lake has an area of 370,000 acres (1,500 km2) and a maximum depth of 205 ft (62 m). By volume, it is the fourth-largest reservoir in the US. Lake Oahe has a length of approximately 231 mi (372 km) and has a shoreline of 2,250 mi (3,620 km). 51 recreation areas are located along Lake Oahe, and 1.5 million people visit the reservoir every year. The lake is named for the 1874 Oahe Indian Mission.
Species of fish in the reservoir include walleye, northern pike, channel catfish, and smallmouth bass. Chinook Salmon, native to the Pacific Northwest, are artificially maintained in Lake Oahe and are a popular target for anglers. The lake also supports populations of the endangered pallid sturgeon.
Lake Oahe begins just north of Pierre, South Dakota and extends nearly as far north as Bismarck, North Dakota.
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Here is an example of how fishing on Lake Oahe can be.
Another morning and another nice bunch of fish. We were trolling even more shallow today and found a lot of active fish between 18-20″ (when we weren’t sorting out smaller fish). They’re saying thunderstorms this evening/tomorrow but then I’ll be back on the water for Sunday with my son.
We were pulling crankbaits on Lake Oahe.
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A 24" walleye caught on crankbait in Lake Oahe.
Lake Oahe Fishing Guides – Well it’s been a couple weeks since I reported last, my apologies. I’ve been really busy pre-fishing for last weekends tournament and pre-fishing for the southern end of Lake Oahe for clients. The fishing hasn’t slowed down in the least. We’re now in the post spawn period and it’s long enough now where the females are starting to go on a terror. I am occasionally catching pregnant females and some milking males, but for the most part the fish are a bit skinnier then the prior weeks. There’s two different bites going on right now. One is still taking place on the river north and south of Bismarck. The other is taking place on the southern end of Lake Oahe. We’re still pitching/vertical jigs around Bismarck and in the big lake we’re trolling crankbaits. Both are equally effective right now. I’m still finding the fish shallow and it makes for a good time with aggressive fish. If you’re looking to head out on the water with our Lake Oahe fishing guides, just let us know if you’re looking to jig, run spinners and live bait rigs, or crankbait. All 3 will catch fish in great numbers right now. Give us a call and we’ll get you on the water!
Lake Oahe Fishing Guides – It’s getting to be that time of year, tournament time. I have the Big Muddy Walleye Tournament on May 5th (2 Saturdays from now) – so I will be pretty secretive with my photos and reports for that reason until after the tournament is over. When I’m not with clients I’m doing a lot of tournament scouting; looking for new holes, seeing what works and what doesn’t, etc. Fishing was great this past 5 days. We had a 80-walleye day with a client late last week – this weekend I took my kids fishing. My son is fast becoming an addict and didn’t want to get off the water. It makes daddy proud. :-)
I’m moving my RV down to Lake Oahe on May 6th. Most of my fishing will be based out of there for the post-spawn and thereafter. I’m looking forward to some dynamite crankbait fishing.
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Lake Oahe Fishing Guides – Kicked off the guiding season with a bang with a 50-walleye outing. The fish size ranged from 14-24″. We even caught a few nice sauger going up to 20″ in length, and as always, a few pike. We rarely went over 5 minutes without some action. The dead sticks have been crazy this year and leaving a jig dragging the bottom has been picking up A LOT of fish. So when you’re not jigging them up, you’re reeling them up – it’s a heck of a good time.
Guiding Lake Oahe - another solid walleye.
We’ve been receiving a lot of calls this week for guiding Lake Oahe – so call soon to pick up the best dates!
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29 inch walleye from one of our Lake Oahe fishing guides.
Lake Oahe Fishing Guides – I’ve been fortunate enough to have a very flexible schedule this year so I’ve been cherry picking the best weather days of the week. Saturday was no exception with almost 70 degree temps and very light winds. There’s a lot of guys on the water so we’ve been going out really early, getting to the landing at 6:30 a.m. Some of the community holes are holding a lot of nice fish and the key is to get there first. I’ve been hitting around 4-8 holes every outing and it’s been paying off. Typically all the holes are holding fish, it just depends on how many and what size. We’re starting to see a lot more males as the fish are moving up the river system and we’re doing most of our fishing south of Bismarck.
On to Saturday’s walleye fishing…it was again, excellent. We fished for around 4 hours and boated almost 30 walleyes, a couple pike, and a bonus 6 lb. salmon. We just kept the small to mid sized males to clean and released a lot of females. I was lucky enough to boat a 29″ walleye as well. It was VERY thick and was probably the biggest fish I’ve seen out of my boat so far this year. I did not weigh it, just got it back in the water right away to swim and be caught again.
I will be guiding Tuesday, April 17th and Thursday, April 19th. The rest of the week is open so give me a shout if you want to get in on some of the great walleye fishing action!
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26" walleye from your Lake Oahe fishing guide.
Fishing has finally gotten slightly stagnant the past couple days. Heavy winds coupled with cold temperatures has dropped the water temp into the 40 degree range. While we’re still catching 20 fish an outing with many over the 24″ mark, it’s not like it was a week ago. That’s typical but still a great day on the water. We’ve spent half our time seeking out new water the past couple days in the colder temps. We’ve found many nice holes 15-20 miles from the nearest landing. The good thing is, there’s no boats in the area. So we’re going to be fishing secluded areas for our wallyees.
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One of the many walleyes we released over 4-5 lbs.
Lake Oahe Fishing Guide – Fishing just continues to get better and better and with healthier fish average. We fished the past couple days on the north end of Lake Oahe and had some unbelievable fishing. We started the day on crankbaits but the bite was a bit slow. We managed to pick up fish but the size had dwindled in that area. We bounced around and hit up a bunch of spots before we finally hit THE hole. We caught over 40 walleyes in just a couple hours. We pitched light jigs to get all of our fish. We managed to boat and release 12 walleyes over 24″ with the biggest fish of the day being a 28″ eye. It was just one after another and had the spot all to ourselves.
There’s no better time than now to cash in on big pre-spawn fish. Contact one of our Lake Oahe fishing guides to book a spot!
Well I’m starting to sound like a broken record but I can’t stress enough how good the fishing is around here. Pretty much a guaranteed limit as far as they go this time of year.
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Lake Oahe Fishing Guide – Fishing just isn’t slowing down on the Missouri River and Lake Oahe. We went out yesterday early in the morning to beat the rush and got to the landing before sunrise. To my surprise there was already quite a few boats loading. We got on the water and caught four quick keeper walleyes in a very short drift. After a few more drifts the boat traffic picked up so we moved onto quieter waters. We made around a half dozen stops at good looking water and caught fish within minutes at all holes except one. Picked up our biggest fish in a hole without a boat in sight (there was easily 40-50 boats at the landing). Picked up all of our fish pitching jigs and vertical jigging. We started the day on minnows and ended the day using Gulp Alive chartreuse. They were really hitting the gulp hard, including the biggest fish of the day which was a 25″ walleye that was of course, released. We figured we boated at least 40 walleyes between 14-25″. It was pretty fast action all morning long and into the afternoon. When the wind started to blow it slowed down a bit and we got off the water.
I don’t see the action slowing down anytime soon. For the weather and the fishing were having in the month of March, it’s just short of amazing. Give me a call at 701-866-1909 to book a day on the water with Lake Oahe fishing guides!
This is already turning out to be a FANTASTIC year for fishing on Lake Oahe. Spent about 3-4 hours on the water today. We boated around 30-40 walleyes from late morning to mid-afternoon. All fishing was with jigs and a minnow. We caught about an equal amount of fish vertical jigging as we did pitching jigs. Most of the fish were between 14-22 inches – we lost some bigger fish at the boat but we’ll get them next time.
Plenty of openings available if you want to spend a great day on the water and enjoy this beautiful weather. Give me a call at 701-866-1909.
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