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We were able to climb back from 108th to 20th. Sakakawea is such a frustrating lake and I love it.
 
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Nice 2nd day, DM.

Curious what the boundaries were? Was there any techniques that were best? Did it seem like time of day mattered? What depth are people targeting these days? Any good stories? Anyone care to share?
 

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You can fish from the Beacon east to Douglas but not in it and both points directly across on the south side.
As what seems the norm cranks and creek chubs bring allot of the bigger fish to the scale.
With the wind finally changing direction and coming out of the west north west just before the tourney and hot calm days it made things very challenging. Allot of very good sticks had a tough go of it. Congrats to those that got things figured out you deserve it, Rory and Jason knocked it out of the park with a huge margin from 1st to 2nd.#$%^&>:;:thumbsup
 

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Am I reading this correctly? Biggest fish of the tournament was 8.83 lbs? Nice fish. Seems like one pig from pre-spawn spring-fishing would have swung the totals wildly. Get a teener in there, and you're golden.
 

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Nice 2nd day, DM.

Curious what the boundaries were? Was there any techniques that were best? Did it seem like time of day mattered? What depth are people targeting these days? Any good stories? Anyone care to share?

We used about every tactic known to the walleye world. One big fish came on a leech and single hook in 24 FOW, the other on a WNC boogie shad (similar to a salmo hornet) in 5 FOW. While live baiting, we had one chub rod out at all times which netted us 1 catfish, 1 walleye (15 inch) and 347 small mouth. I don't want to run chubs ever again.

On a side note, I've never seen complete year classes to be seemingly gone out of lake sakakawea. We had zero fish between 20" and 25" this whole week.
 


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Thanks 5575 and DM, interesting info. Sounds like some crazy fishing with no pattern per se. Kinda matches every trip I take to Sak, might as well pretend I am going there for the first time every time because no 2 trips go the same way.

Sounds like the smallies chubs :)
 

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We used about every tactic known to the walleye world. One big fish came on a leech and single hook in 24 FOW, the other on a WNC boogie shad (similar to a salmo hornet) in 5 FOW. While live baiting, we had one chub rod out at all times which netted us 1 catfish, 1 walleye (15 inch) and 347 small mouth. I don't want to run chubs ever again.

On a side note, I've never seen complete year classes to be seemingly gone out of lake sakakawea. We had zero fish between 20" and 25" this whole week.

3 to 5 years ago a ton of 17 to 24 inch fish were caught and harvested. In my opinion that has caused a gap in classes, as I have seen some of the same. Plenty of the smaller classes out there now, so the future looks good if mother nature cooperates with water and the smelt/forage.
 

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We used about every tactic known to the walleye world. One big fish came on a leech and single hook in 24 FOW, the other on a WNC boogie shad (similar to a salmo hornet) in 5 FOW. While live baiting, we had one chub rod out at all times which netted us 1 catfish, 1 walleye (15 inch) and 347 small mouth. I don't want to run chubs ever again.

On a side note, I've never seen complete year classes to be seemingly gone out of lake sakakawea. We had zero fish between 20" and 25" this whole week.

Completely mind boggling!
 

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not in tourney lots of fish in that 15-16-18-19 range -- tough to find over 20.
 

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I fish eastern 1/3 of the lake most of the time and what I’ve seen this year is 2 strong year classes. 21”-25” fish and 15”-17” fish. Maybe it’s more than 2 year classes but it certainly is different than no fish between 20” and 25”
 




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