Lake Oahe

Like your name, that's always towards the top.

So what was that like adapting to come to like the Missouri river or go to the, you know, Lake Oahe is different, but come to like Lake sharp a couple of years ago, that had to be just like, what do we, where do we start? Yeah.

Yeah, I guess the Missouri river system is one of my favorite systems of fish.

Um, and it's because I feel really comfortable on it now, but when I started, um, pre live scope, it was like, well, I guess the best way for me to figure out kind of how to cover this, I'm just going to throw crank baits out and drag lead core around wherever some stretches that look good.

I love fishing new bodies of water.

Lake Oahe, you know, that was the first time that I had been out there walleye fishing this year, and it was a ton of fun.

I enjoyed it.

So, yeah, I'm looking forward to going to some new areas and fishing lakes that aren't necessarily great lakes.

Then they were casting a crankbait at a wing dam in Red Wing.

And then they were pulling a bottom bouncer on Lake Oahe.

And then they were on Devil's Lake fishing a slip bobber in the trees.

And then they went to Lake of the Woods and trolled leadcore with big deep diving crankbaits.

You have to pull crankbaits.

You have to do different stuff.

You know, I think making that most versatile fisherman at the end of the year in technique, right? I mean, and I think looking back on both season, you went to three great lakes and Lake Oahe.

you know you pretty much kept the same pattern of bodies of water you know go back a year before when you came to pier and fish sharp i mean you guys were staying kitty corner for me and you know every night we were talking different stuff and scoping wasn't a conversation

And I mean, they got, there's some nice mule deer out there.

Even on your friend, the Lake Oahe, you go fishing there from South Dakota, North of, but I mean, there's on this side of the river, there's some, there's definitely some 180 inch mule deers down there, you know, and antelope.

I know, um, some people I know on some, uh, farmland down by, uh, Strasburg and out, I mean, even antelope are over there.

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Yeah.

Um, before I forget tonight, uh, I, I got some sad news this week that, uh, uh, I'm r- we, we're gonna deem him the pioneer of Lake Oahe.

Mr. Rick Gray passed away.

Oh, no.

I did not know that

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Rick Gray was probably the first guy, one of the first guys to fish on Lake Oahe after the dam was built.

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So a couple things I wanna...

Like, the Oahe event and this Devils Lake event, to be able to go out and compete doing, let's just call it old school techniques with trolling crankbaits.

Um, Oahe I was trolling leadcore, and, and Devils just trolling flat line, both fireline and mono.

But I think so much talk right now is with forward-facing sonar, and there is nobody that loves to use that technology more than myself, but, uh, it's not the only way.

So that was, that was kinda fun.

So here's, and here's a couple things, 'cause I know you guys are all about education, so I'm gonna dive into this just a little bit.

Mm-hmm.

So on Oahe, I was looking to troll pretty slow with Lead Core because it was spring and yada, yada.

He mentioned that, yeah.

But the stuff, like going from Oahe to Sakakaweet, uh, to the ri- you know, the river, then to...

You know, you, you take all the states and the bodies of water and you think about having to learn all the different techniques of w- what the tournaments have brought to our, the fishing industry, right? I mean, the, the amount of stuff, the n- the slow death hook, lead core-ing spinner baits in trees.

You know what I mean? Stuff like that.