Fishing Report (11/5/2023)

Lake	Fishing Report
Enemy Swim	Bluegills fair along with a few walleyes.	Details
Horseshoe	Fair for smallmouth and a few walleyes.	Details
Pelican	A few small perch and walleyes.	Details
Dry Lake #2 (By Willow Lake)	Fair for perch and walleyes. Good for pike.
Big Stone Lake	Bluegills and perch good along with a few Walleye.	Details
Poinsett	A few walleye and crappie. Fair for smallmouth.	Details
Lake Hendricks	Not many reports.	Details
Bitter Lake	Walleyes good along with a few perch.	Details
Waubay	Fair for Walleyes and perch.	Details
Dry Lake #3 (By Florence)	Fair for Walleyes and a few perch.
Pickerel Lake	A few perch, crappie, and walleye.	Details
West Oakwood	Few reports.	Details
Swan Lake	A few walleyes. Good for pike.	Details
Lake Kampeska	A few walleyes, perch, and crappie.	Details
Piyas	A few walleyes.	Details
Blue Dog	A few Walleyes.	Details
Casey's Slough	A few Walleyes.
Lynn Lake	Fair for Walleyes and Pike.	Details
Dry Lake #1 (Clark/Garden City)	Walleyes and perch fair.
Traverse	Walleyes fair.	Details
Lake Cochrane	Walleyes fair along with a few bluegills.	Details
Lake Albert	Few reports. Suffered a severe winter kill.	Details
Indian Springs	Walleyes fair along weed edges.	Details
Lake Henry	A few Walleyes and crappie.	Details
Roy Lake	A few smallies and walleye.	Details
Buffalo	Bluegills fair.
Rush (North & South)	Walleyes fair.
Goose by Watertown	Walleyes fair. Hard to use north boat ramp.
Reid	Walleyes fair. Lake is weedy.
Antelope	A few walleyes.
Minnewasta	Walleyes slow to fair along with a few crappie..

Lake	Fishing Report
Madison	Fair for walleyes and a few crappie!	Details
Vermillion	Fair for crappie and a few walleyes.	Details
Lake Herman	Bullheads fair.	Details
Wall Lake	A few walleyes.
Lake Alvin	A few crappie and perch.	Details
Diamond	A few small walleye. Severe winter kill.	Details
Scott's Slough	A few small walleye and crappie.	Details
Island	Walleyes fair to good in North Island pulling crankbaits. South Island had a severe winter kill.	Details
81 Ponds	Walleyes fair to good.
Schaeffer's Slough	A few crappie.	Details
Twin Lakes (by Montrose)	Walleyes fair.	Details
Thompson	Walleyes fair. Fair for pike along with a few crappie and perch.	Details
Brandt	A few walleyes.
Whitewood	Perch bite has tapered off. A few Crappie, walleyes and pike.	Details
Spirit Lake (North of De Smet)	Few reports.	Details
Henry WPA	Few reports.	Details
Family Park (Western Sioux Falls)	A few pike.	Details
Mitchell	A few panfish.	Details
Menno	A few panfish.	Details
Beaver	Few reports.	Details
Sinai	Walleyes fair using Slow Death and crawlers. or pulling Hornets.	Details
Brush	Not many reports..	Details
East Oakwood	A few walleye.	Details
Clear (N. Minnehaha County)	Few reports.

Lake	Fishing Report
Spirit Lake	A few panfish.	Details
Silver Lake	Few reports.
East Okoboji	A few bluegills.
West Okoboji	Bluegills fair in the bays where water is warmer.
Lake Pahoja	A few bluegills.

Lake	Fishing Report
Shetek	Walleyes fair to good along with a few crappie..
Sarah	A few walleye.
Benton	Walleyes fiar along with a few pike.
East Twin	Few walleye.
Bloody	Few walleye.
Okabena	A few walleyes and crappie.

Lake	Fishing Report
Mobridge	Fair to good for walleyes. A lot of trophy walleyes being caught.
Pierre	Fair to good for walleyes. A lot of trophy walleyes recently.
Fort Thompson	Fair fort walleyes.
Chamberlain	Walleyes fair to good.
Platte	Walleyes slow to fair.
Pickstown	Slow for walleyes.
Yankton	A few walleyes.

Lake	Fishing Report
James River	High water issues.
Big Sioux	A few walleye and Flandreau, Spillway in Sioux Falls, and Klondike area.

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