LAKE OAHE, S.D. (KELO) — Early in December 2023, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) announced that fisheries staff had confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in Lake Oahe, the 9th largest ...

Drifting along the shore of Lake Oahe, you can’t help but think of Lewis and Clark, who navigated these waters nearly 200 years ago. The rolling hills and bluffs that border the impoundment of the ...

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 ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A Watertown resident recently landed what may be the biggest chinook salmon ever caught in South Dakota. Darrick Koch and a fishing partner were trolling along the face of Oahe Dam ...

A Watertown resident recently landed what might be a South Dakota state-record chinook salmon on Lake Oahe. Darrick Koch said he and a fishing partner were trolling along the face of Oahe Dam last ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PIERRE, S.D. — The line moves just a hair, or does it? No, wait, it does. Darn, nope, it doesn’t. Maybe it’s time to reel the minnow back in and make sure it ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A multi-year study of walleye in the popular Lake Oahe fishery in the Dakotas is showing that anglers are not over-fishing the resource. Crews are wrapping up a four-year effort ...

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.

PIERRE, S.D. - 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 millions ...

Terry Beiswanger, of Mitchell escaped his vehicle uninjured when it broke through the ice on Lake Oahe on Friday evening. According to the Potter County Sheriff’s Office, Beiswanger was fishing on ...