Richmond Lake Fishing Reports

[Bobb-o]

heading out to fish the Richmond Lake NAIFC qualifier in January. Anyone have any info on the lake? or know where i can get a better map than what the SD DNR has?

[aquafang]

Bobb-o

Is it the Richmond near Aberdeen? Fill me in on the qualifier you are coming for????? Are they having a big tourney there? Give me details. I am a local to that lake and that lake is finally coming back. That's all we need now is a bunch more fishing pressure on the lake. Your PM's are not working. if you would like you can e-mail me at [email protected]

talk to ya later

Ty

[Jarrod32]

Yeah, aquafang, NAIFC has a tournament there on January 10. As for a lake map, I haven't come across any better maps. Not much hidden structure to talk about on that lake, though.

There are some nice crappie and gills in the lake...I have a pretty good idea on the spring patterns for them, but don't have a lot of advice for the ice patterns. We've found the crappie under the ice suspended a couple feet off the bottom, and not necessarily in real deep water.

That's about all I can tell you...

[cold one sd]

heading out to fish the Richmond Lake NAIFC qualifier in January. Anyone have any info on the lake? or know where i can get a better map than what the SD DNR has?

The map that you referring to is the only map I know about for Richmond Lake. I think it is about the same map that Navionics uses on their North chip and about the only thing that is accurate on it is the basic outline of the lake. I believe the map shows Richmond to be only ten feet deep and it is actually around twenty nine feet by the dam.

[Bobb-o]

Th eproblem with the SD game and fish maps is that they weren't scanned in correctly and you can barely make out any of the contour lines. if any of you guys have any other info, feel free to shoot me an email dropshot at teamiceault dot com

[Dicky_Ray]

Hey Bobb-o,

I got a map off www.sportsmansconnection.com/ it cost about 4 bucks and its ok not very detailed but it gets the job down better then the other ones I have found for free.

Dose any one know the catch limit on the lake? I hear its 10 per day. We will be making the long haul from Michigan to try our luck on the ice.

See you on th ice

[aquafang]

10 crappie, and 10 gills per day.

[Jarrod32]

Hey, bobb-o...let us know how it went. We hit Richmond for just a couple hours last weekend, but couldn't find the fish...