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It's a dandy of a chance to latch onto some decent fish in northeastern SD! Of course, if ya want large numbers of fish, Waubay would be the lake of choice. Kampeska and Pelican in the watertown area of offering up some pretty good action for walleyes right now. Kampeska also coughed up some pretty nice smallies for me and me mates last Sunday. Bitter is still putting out some very fat walleyes according to one source i have spoken with. We also had good to excellent action for a variety of fish up on Pickerel last saturday evening. Crappies were active while still fishing with slip bobbers, and the walleyes, smallies, and white trash (bass) were hiting well on plugs from 7 to 18 feet of water. Try something new, almost every lake in the region has something special to offer as far as the fishing goes! Good luck and have fun!

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sloughshark, when as the last time you fished Bitter for pike, or have you heard anything lately. going to doing some pike fishing somehwere around there.

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Waubay is a fun time but those walleyes are sad looking to say the least. The average size has gone down quite a bit in the last 3 years. And man are they skinny! Anyways, caught a ton last weekend but could not latch any crappies. Went out to Cattail and had a fun time catching slimers. We saw a couple that were 10+ but the majority we caught were in the 4-6lb. range.

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how big are these pitiful walleyes on waubay? i cant catch any fish around home- thinkin about buzzin on over there for the afternoon maybe so i can remember what a walleye looks like!!

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32, what type of water were you fishing at cattail and lure / bait. I fished it twice last June and we got a low teen fish and numbers of 4-6 lb. pike each day. pulling spinner rigs (tied up on wire) and fathead over main basin areas that had remnant cattails on the bottom from the old days. Also a few bigger walleyes mixed in. Got numbers of smaller eyes from trees but no pike. will be fishing it a couple days next week.

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Nitebiter, you must be from Alex? I reside in Starbuck. I also have not had a great spring fishing wise on the area lakes. Waubay eyes are from 13"-16" for the most part. Alot of 13 3/4" fish. Fun to catch though. Did see a 5# caught last weekend. As for Cattail. We just hooked up the trolling motor and covered water casting to shore with jigs and twistertail/minnows.

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its been about three weeks since the last time i fished bitter, so i cany say for sure that the fish are still biting, but the latest reports ive gotten came from reliable sources. The last few years I have caught a ton of walleyes and sloughsharks on that lake. What worked the best was pulling shad raps and walley divers along the weed lines on the west and southwest parts of the lakes in anywhere from 6 to 12 feet of water. I would imagine this technique would still be able to put some fish in the boat.

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Well, PerchJr. How did it go? Can't believe the lack of reports on here lately. We are headed to Waubay to camp with kids and g-parents for July 4 weekend. We will surely try the abundant eyes on Waubay but wondering if anyone is still getting crappies at Lynn, Pickeral, or Waubay? Also anyone heard of the perch biting yet?

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Muskeez-

We managed one 10 1/2" perch on Waubay last week in 9' of water. The Grenville baitshop guy said that there have only been sporadic reports of perch being caught there. Most boats are averaging 1 perch, if any, each trip.

Anyone else out there catching any perch? You'd think that Bitter would produce a few nice ones in the summer. Any other bite reports out there? The eyes were a bit harder to find for us on Waubay (compared to usual there). We ended up finding them in exactly 9'.... not 8' or 10'... only 9'.

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