Lake Sakakawea Fishing Guide

As your Lake Sakakawea fishing guide, we’re excited to show you the legendary Lake Sakakawea.  Lake Sakakawea is a lake of ups and downs in terms of water levels and fishing.  In the matter of just a few years, Lake Sakakawea has gone from a record drought to a near record high water stage in recent years.  With that has come a major rebound in fish numbers and size.  We typically don’t start fishing Lake Sakakawea until July, as the water temps take awhile to increase with the deeper, colder water.   We shift from Lake Oahe when the fishing slows down and Lake Sakakawea fishing picks up.  Timing is everything and we want to be there when the action heats up.

There’s a wide variety of fish sizes in the lake, and our Lake Sakakawea fishing guides use MANY presentations to pursue them.   Most of our bait presentations include trolling to cover water and entice big fish to strike.   With the long stretches of flats, we can spread out a large number of lines and pinpoint fish and baitfish pods.  We use only the best electronics and side imaging to locate fish.  This means less times searching and more time catching.  At times, we will also run live bait rigs, spinners, and jigs.  Weather and time of year dictate presentations and fish moods.  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 Sakakawea is important, and your total experience is what matters. Our Lake Sakakawea fishing guide will work hard to provide the best experience possible.

Lake Sakakawea information from Wikipedia:

Lake Sakakawea is a reservoir in the Missouri River basin in central North Dakota. Named for the Shoshone-Hidatsa woman Sakakawea, it is the third largest man-made lake in the United States, after Lake Mead and Lake Powell. The lake lies in parts of six counties in western North Dakota: Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, and Williams. A map centered around the Van Hook Arm 47°53′00″N 102°21′14″W of the lake perhaps better shows its westward extent from its origin at the Garrison Dam.
It is located about 80 km (50 mi) from Bismarck, North Dakota; the distance by the river is about 120 km (75 mi). The lake averages between 2 and 3 miles (3.2 and 4.8 km) in width and is 14 miles (23 km) wide at its widest point (Van Hook arm). Lake Sakakawea marks the maximum southwest extent of glaciation during the ice age.
The reservoir was created with the completion of Garrison Dam in 1956, the second (and largest) of six main-stem dams on the Missouri River built and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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