This story has been corrected regarding the first name of Jake Davis and the reference to Big Stone Lake as the origin of the Minnesota River. Reporter Bob Mercer regrets and apologizes for the errors ...

As we roll into our second fishing report of the 2026 season and gear up for Memorial Day Weekend, we’re excited to partner with the Midwest Walleye Challenge ( event/895/2026-south-dakota-wa ...

PIERRE, S.D. - The screen on Tony Dean's sonar showed large, black splotches. One after another, the clouds appeared as Dean moved his boat along the shore of Lake Oahe in search of walleyes. "Those ...

Cow Creek is more than 100 lake miles south of the North Dakota-South Dakota border, said Ben Holen, aquatic nuisance species coordinator for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Zebra mussels ...

Bosch's Bayside Resort, Lake Oahe, Beaver Bay: Langelier Bay has been producing well and anglers have been taking northerns, catfish and a few walleye using minnows with jigs under the bridge at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schuck hoists his state record walleye in front of Upper Lake Oahe. An out-of-state angler who was visiting South Dakota's famed ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - As record amounts of water were flushed through Oahe Dam during the Missouri River flooding last summer, biologists and anglers worried about a repeat of 1997, when hundreds of ...

Lake Oahe still is recovering from the 2011 floods, but its walleye population is going strong with the help of warm water prey fish, according to biologists with South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks.

Welcome back to another season on the water! As spring settles in and the Missouri River begins to wake up, we’re excited to kick off our first fishing report of the year. Conditions are changing ...

Fishing guide Dave Spaid said he's optimistic because Oahe started this year with a much higher smelt population than in 1997. Walleyes remained in good shape through the summer, a sign they were ...