Just Wondering

[Mr Special]

Sorry, dont' mean to sound stupid. But I used to live 1983-1987 and fish Devils Lk quite a bit and never caught or heard of it having any Smallies there. Does anyone know if it does or not?

Thanks

[EBass]

LOL, he's asking because of me. I swear I show a Tony Dean Outdoors show where he was hand feeding a smallie night crawlers. He was in a wetsuit. It was on about a year ago or so. Mr Special said he's never heard of that thus is the reason for the post. Anyone know?

[Gatores]

Ok i dont want to sound stupid either, but by smallie do you mean small mouth bass? or whats a smallie?

[Corey Heiser]

I've spent many days on Devils Lake and never heard of anyone catching a smallmouth. The whitebass in DL can be huge. One other tidbit. The smallmouth fishing on Sak can be unreal. Many people don't talk about the smallmouth fishing, but it can be awesome.

[White-tips]

Heis, shouldn't you be working? I'm going right now. Later.

P.S. You been fishin? I have next friday off, let's go. 6 of us went to Upper Red last Tues and C&R 111 giant craps. Unreal. Later KJK.

[smalls]

I've never heard of smallies in Devils Lake although you don't have to go far from Devils Lake into the Sheyenne river system to find smallmouth bass. White bass, on the other hand, may be the most exciting fishing in DL. I certainly hope I can find a few feeding schools this summer with my fly rod.

[Mr Special]

Thanks everyone for the replys. Hopefully this summer I get a chance to head back that ways.

Good luck everyone

[EBass]

I wonder what lake he was on. Tony Dean lives in ND right? Oh well.

[iffwalleyes]

No Tony is from SD Piere to be exact. But he fishes DL allot.

[Ed Carlson]

Tony may have been on Clear Lake in SD. He likes the Glacial Lakes region of NE SD and Clear Lake is well known for its sumo SM Bass. Clear Lake produced the last SD State Record SM Bass. There are more where that came from too.

The Sheyenne River in ND has super SM Bass fishing on most of it’s length. A region that gets less pressure but had big SM Bass if the section below Valley City ND down through the Sheyenne Grasslands National Park. One of my favorite areas is from Little Yellowstone Park to North of Milnor ND. You will also find good walleye and catfishing on this section with little or no angler pressure. This region is a good candidate for a canoe float trip if you have a long weekend in mind.