haugh slough

[percherman]

I wish I could get 100 of you guys down to fish my spot while the liberal rule is going yet. 25 crappie 8-11" .

It may seem like your doing allot of cleaning for nothing, but those little bite size fillets are so good with a little beer batter.

I have the opposite problem down here. No one wants to keep the crappie and all we end up with are overpopulated stunted little fish.

It reminds me of the days growing up fishing lake Alvin.

Everyone Has Problems Where They Live!!!

[ratso]

Starting too sound like a bunch of SD crybabys...There has been a lot of sd plates in mn for the last 100 years, all of a sudden through the last 10 yrs you sders actually finally have a couple lakes worth fishing and it is mn people cleaning them out...that is talk. I also will guarntee at least 100 sd boats at Url on the opener and beyond.....we minnesotans have a lot more to give and lose so get a life...aceept it..people will go where the fish are hot...cryin wont help your cause.....Do like the comments about the tip line...no one should be able to exceed limits no matter what state!!!

[percherman]

Ratso, I live in Nebraska and was referring to a lake in Nebraska. Don't be so sensitive. I too am a OUT OF STATER.

I have been treated with nothing but courtesy when fishing in SD.

I guess it all boils down to the etiquette. The way we out of staters portray ourselves on and off the water is the way we will be perceived.

Take it for what it's worth!

[cold one sd]

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Starting too sound like a bunch of SD crybabys...There has been a lot of sd plates in mn for the last 100 years, all of a sudden through the last 10 yrs you sders actually finally have a couple lakes worth fishing and it is mn people cleaning them out...that is

talk

. I also will guarntee at least 100 sd boats at Url on the opener and beyond.....we minnesotans have a lot more to give and lose so get a life...aceept it..people will go where the fish are hot...cryin wont help your cause.....Do like the comments about the tip line...no one should be able to exceed limits no matter what state!!!

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I'm sure there are problems no matter where a person fishes. One of my friends has a collection of belt buckles fron the TIPs line. When he sees someone double dipping he just goes bonkers.

[verg]

ratso, fishing has been good here a lot longer than 10 years, word just finally got out. Look at a waubay ramp, with 80 rigs sitting there, 65 are out a staters-yet according to you, locals are taking all the fish. YOu have 10,000 lakes don't you? You seem quite sensitive..hit home or what? As i had mentioned before, not all are bad. I will tell it like it is. We locals don't mind when we see ND or NE plates. We view them as equals, it seems the bigger states (more money) treat resources poorly. Like they don't care..got all the money in the world so nothing matters. I'm speaking as a whole and not pointing fingers, just trying to show how it is thought about around here.

again--not all are bad. few years ago i gave two minn. guys a tip on where to fish. Two weeks later i got a card in the mail with a huge thank you-not money just a big thanks. i thought that was pretty cool.

[verg]

you know, i got to thinking about it..I would say the majority of the good fishing is in the NE area of sd and the missouri river. So we get a lot of pressure because most out of staters come right here. I guess i don't blame them being that this has better fishing than most parts of the state. If we had good lakes scattered all over, we wouldn't see the pressure. On the note of the river, you out of staters might want to look into that. It is really getting good again. Longer drive though.

[gorrilla]

I don't disagree with most of your statements verg, just how "the big states manage their resources."

Don't get me wrong, I've got a few gripes with the way MN spends its money, and I REALLY wish they'd do a Walk-In Program over here(maybe the higher land values prohibit one on the level of north and south dakota???).

BUT, where I disagree is the opinion that S dakota game and fish has "managed" these lakes to this outstanding bite. I think the stars aligned and gave NE SD all the wet years, which created the enormous lake growth(just like connecting a bunch of temporary wetlands). Like always, it seems there is a great boom and bust period where the nutrient rich flooded areas are capable of producing enormous quantities of fish with fast growth rates. To give all the credit to your game and fish department is overstating it.

What I notice in SD is locals and out of staters flocking to the hot bite and cleaning out a small lake in a short amount of time.

[verg]

gorrilla, you are mostly correct. What i meant about good fishing here for a long time OTHER lakes. Everyone thinks of waubay, bitter etc when they think of this area. There are many lakes here that have been decent spots for a long time. Such as Enemy, pickeral, traverse, thompson, poinsett as well as others. You are right about water levels blowing up small ponds and becoming good fishing lakes. And, gfp did a good job of loading those up with even more fish. However, many of the sloughs and blown up lakes will sooner or later dry out leaving us with the before mentioned.

[cold one sd]

I am 62 years old and I grew up fishing the Northeastern lakes in SD. We fished Pickerel, Clear and Roy lakes mostly. The fishing has always been good an these lakes. The weather filling the rest of these small lakes was a real boone to the fishing. One problem that I see in our state is that G,F&Parks does nothing to enlarge campgrounds to accomodate the large number of people that want to fish these lakes. I day fish the Northeastern lakes now because you can rarely find room in a campground unless you book 90 days ahead. I fish the river if I spend any time camping because the campgrounds out there aren't that full. Now that the river fishing is improving than will all change too. I'm not saying that is out of state people doing this as it is everyone. I will say that if I look at license plates in a parking lot at a boat launch, SD plates are in the minority. Maybe this is because we have only about 700,000 people in this state and I don't know the percentage of those that fish. You are right about the small lakes being pounded during a hot bite in the winter. The only thing that saves these small lakes is the fact that when another lake gets hot, everyone heads to that lake. I guuess what I am trying to say is that if our department of tourism is going to invite the whole planet to fish here, they should make room for everyone.

[verg]

good point..i'll second that

[walleyeaddict]

I think everyone has some good points here...ratso,verg,cold...People will go where ever the fishing is the best....Just need more c and r

[sloughshark]

I think we should quit [PoorWordUsage]in and moanin and go fishin!!!

[cold one sd]

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I agree. I couldn't get out yesterday and today it would blow my hair off. One of these days.

[gorrilla]

The reason I didn't write much lately, is I was fishin'...

[cold one sd]

I have been building a new deck on the back of my house. I was gonna fish today, but the wind is blowing 20 again. Guess I'll till the garden and finish the deck. Glad some one has been getting out.