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Hutch's Guide Service Fishing Reports.

We had some great fishing trips in 2011 and look forward to many more in 2012. Please visit our 2010 and 2011 past fishing reports to see photos and read the reports.

2012 Fishing Reports

Coming soon!

Month by Month Guiding Breakdown

April/ May

Both of these month's produce excellent walleye fishing along with great smallmouth/ Northern/ Catfish. Weather is a factor so many times we have to stay off big water because of high winds etc. but this is a great time to go after the big northern and catfish in the back of creeks/bays to beat the weather. Also fishing on Sharpe below Dam keeps you out of wind and produce's nice limits of walleye. Jig fishing when water temps cold along with btm. bouncer presentations as water warms most common .Boat traffic can be much more around the Pierre area.

June

By far the busiest month on both lakes.( School out and just traditionally start of summer season] so book early if possible to get best guides/lodging. The fishing is excellent for all species. Weather can still be a factor. We are usually fishing with Lindy or btm. bouncer's.

July

Best all around month for both fishing and weather especially. family trips Walleye fishing at seasonal peak especially in high water periods on Oahe. and Sharpe good two. Btm. Bouncer presentations most common.

August

Same as July but there can be hotter weather. If there is a breeze it is not to bad as big lake water temps keep heat down. Fish can be a little deeper but still great fishing.

September

Very good on the walleye fishing with fall weather great toward end of month. As water cools jig fishing starts to come into play again.

October / November

Fishing is still good but weather coming into play again Jigs work best especially in colder water. Combination Hunting /fishing trips most common. Just a note: You can catch fish in all the months above tolling or casting plugs and we do that often. But I have found that guiding people over the years most prefer live bait hover fishing better so I spend more time with bttm/bouncer/crawler/minnow/leeches than the plugs but pulling plugs is always a good alternative and sometimes can be the best.

2012 as good as last year? I'll go out on a limb and say it will be but even a little step down will keep Oahe and Sharpe two of the best fishing destinations in the Midwest.

Kent Hutcheson

E-mail: fishinghutch@aol.com

Summer Phone: 605-224-4755 ~ Pierre, South Dakota

Winter Phone: 712-364-3508 ~ Ida Grove, Iowa

Cell Phone: 605-220-2844
  
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Hutch say's...

First I would like to thank all of my customers for booking trips with me in 2011 and hope we can go again in 2012. If you scroll through last year and the year before catch's/trips by tapping on 2011 or 2010 trip/catches above you can see both Lake Oahe and Lake Sharpe are producing some Hay Days catch's with limits of walleye almost at a 100 per cent rate. There have been more numbers of big walleye being caught with reports of 10 to 15 pound walleye almost a weekly thing this fall.

I still don't think Of Oahe as a trophy lake but they are there along with great numbers of two to three lb fish. Northern fishing was up big time last year with good number's coming in and catching one over 20 pounds a realistic possibly.

Oahe and Sharpe are also both full of smallmouth bass averaging two to three pounds.

Cat fishing and white bass fishing are almost all you want to catch and there are no limits on catfish on Oahe.

The Salmon fishing was way off and there were more catch's of these fish below the Dam this fall raising the possibly that many of these fish went through the tubes with the record water releases all summer. This could also explain the number of big walleye being caught below the Dam. It sounds like water levels will be down from the all time highs. I expect them to still be much higher than they were in the 2000 to 2008 levels and I expect fishing to be similar to the last two years on Oahe and maybe even better on Sharpe.

 I will break down how we usually guide month by month next and if you would like to see how we catch them read some of my reports for the time frame that you might be fishing on either Sharpe or Oahe to see what we are using to catch the fish.

Hope to see you soon.

Hutch