How is the fall pike fishing on Sakakawea?

[sled59]

I have been reading about the great pike fishing out there and wonder how the fall pike bite is.

[NDLive]

If you mean walleye it should be good at times but don’t expect excellent. We don’t have any history to help predict the bite. Water is up so we are in a time of transition.

If northern is what you have in mind that is a different story all together. I would say you can expect poor to downright bad fall fishing for northern. Our numbers are way down and water is way up. It will be a couple of years before we see good northern fishing and likely a couple of more before we begin to approach what we had 5 years ago. There are some big fish left but not many. The positive side is we have uncountable small northern right now and all they have to do is grow.