Input for S.Dakota bass lakes and motels

[rascal23]

Planning on going to SD for some early season bass fishing week after easter, weather willing (blizzard = no-go).   Any thoughts on lakes and lodging?  Kinda planning on fishing Roy and Clear, with Reetz and Enemy Swim on the radar.   Roy seems to have a good dual black,brown bass fishery.   Lindners fish Clear for the brownies.    Any input is of course, appreciated.

      rascal 

[Jeff13]

Just Ice fished out there. We stayed at the Galley. Has a bar and restaurant right there. Plenty of parking and 15 min from Enemy Swim. No far from Blue Dog or Bitter Lake as well. Every lake we fished we talked to guys who said the smallmouth fishing is great out there. 

The Galley is in Webster and the town had numerous places to stay.

[bassfshin24]

Love that area. I am originally from SD and made the trip quite often up to the Roy Lake area. Roy and Clear are both great. I think you can probably do a little better early in the year on Clear but I think Roy has bigger fish. The best thing about Roy is the chance of big largemouth and smallies. Usually when we head up that way we stay are Roy Lake Resort. Decent cabins but they raised their prices recently which I think is a complete joke but they get the business. I've never been there early spring so I'm not sure what the bite is like then. I know the Linders are up there a lot right when ice is out throwing jerkbaits for smallies. 

A couple years ago I was up on Roy for labor day and it was absolutely amazing. Went shallow into some of the bays and started throwing buzzbaits at timber and it was game on...and you never knew if it was a brown or green one. Caught quite a few 4lbs+ brownies on buzzbaits in weeds and timber. So fun!!! By far one of my favorite places to fish. 

[rascal23]

Nice to hear, b24.  Yeah, it's been on the bucket list for a few years now. Lindners have done quite a few shows right after ice out that look like a pretty good bite - jerks, shad raps, jigs.  The main draw though, is fishing bass in march - that would be a first.  Hope the weather cooperates. Wind, as usual, is the factor.