West River

[Noble1]

Here is my report on West River. Fished Orman Dam and caught an eye 14" and a pile of 6"chers. Next day fished in 32' of water next to dam and caught a dozen channel cats. Kept 6 of them and the biggest one was 23". THey were fun to catch. Fished near Wall and caught a bunch of Bluegills and a few other stock dams and got into the bass pretty good.

[Waterbeater]

You've been busy Noble1,
Keep the reports coming. Have you heard anything about either Bear Butte Lake or Newell Lake?
I'm heading out again this weekend. Too darn cold now.

[Try Too Fish]

Waterbeater
How are things? The pictures of the perch you posted sure look nice!I wish we had more of that class of perch here!
I can tell you from a personal point of view that nobel1 is a mover and a shaker!
His moms side is from out your way!
time to take the kid to the bus
later

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Try Too Fish
Forced Too Work!!

[Noble1]

Well My Girlfiend is from Newell. I heard they are catching a few pike from Bear Butte, haven't heard much else. The Bruce dam near wall was pretty fun, tried the New wall dam and almost caught a crappie but it got off at the bottom of the ice. You gotta fish where ever you are.

[Foster]

I am heading out to the Hills myself. Going to try the southern portion...namely Deerfield and Pactola. By-the-way, how do you fish for trout? Salmon eggs, wax worms? Fished some dams by Murdo last week and did very well. There is ice on the river at Chamberlain; I caught 6 fish but no keepers(11-inchers).

[smalls]

FINALLY!!!

I have been looking for a message board where guys fished west river for a long time now!

I am in Rapid City every other weekend to see my girlfriend, and that time is seriously cutting into icin' time. Anyone have any suggestions for where a guy should start? Does angostora freeze up? It doesn't matter to me what I fish for, I just need to be outside!

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[Try Too Fish]

smalls
Welcome too the forum!West river reports are not real consistant yet but with every new member from out west there are new reports!
I'm in south west MN and only dream of fishing west river!
again welcome!

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Try Too Fish
Forced Too Work!!

[Dakota Iceman]

FOSTER: How much ice at chamberlain?

[Foster]

DK Ice, I was in pontoon bay last weekend and there was 6" of clear ice - good ice. The railroad bridge has almost as much but it is fractured and can be unnerving at times. I haven't been to cedar shore point but I am confident that the ice is good...it's just that you are fishing rather shallow water there. I'm gonna try and get out again fri nite. later - foster