i was raised in Redfield from 1949-1963 and hadn,t been back there from 1970-2010 when I was last over there. Tried Ricchmond Lake near Aberdeen but it was too flooded to be very successful unless you include tiny crappies. Had a wild weekend at Ft. Thompson on the Missouri the first weekend in June-roasted on Saturday then froze on Sunday and got nearly blown away (Good old SD)! Did get a few walleyes, smallmouths and wipers, but nothing to shout about and almost stepped on a prairie rattler taking advantage of the morning sun on the Saturday, but thoroughly enjoyed it and the night staying at the Lodestar Casino and hope to get a chance to do so again This May when I will be back again for what may be my last time as I ain,t a young man no more and not made of money. Wouldn,t mind if anyone has any advice on fly patterns and methods to use while I,m there or just like to chat. THANK YOU
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Welcome to the site OT44. Sorry, not many of us on the site are from SD, if you are referring to South Dakota. What is your largest wiper to date? I see you live in the U K now and if the nature of this post is to find out what to use when you return to SD, as far as fly fishing goes, then we might be able to help you. Although we might not be able to help you with first hand info on what to use in SD while fly fishing, one of our members should be able to give you some general info on what they would use for catching the same fish in their area of the USA. Check out our Fly fishing boards at this link:
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Yeah caught my first three wipers last time I was on the Miussouri-biggest just over five pounds and wow do they fight! Any advice much appreciated. Certainly much different fishing over there than here in england.
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Welcome to BFT! Always nice to hear about those less reported about areas.[cool]
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Yes I agree, wipers are some of the hardest fighting fish in freshwater. What type of fish do you catch there in England?
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Pretty much the same as the USA except no wipers and they,re afraid to introduce freshwater bass though one can catch loads of sea bass, four types of carp, roach, tench, rudd, and freshwater bream, Northern pike are simply"pike" here and grow to gigantic sizes. They have introduced catfish but they,re the european type Wels cats. Native trout are the brown though brookies and rainbows have been introduced to transform stillwater fishing along with a few rainbow hyybrids like tiger trout and blue trout. We also have a cousin of the walleye the zander that looks very much like a walleye but isn,t. And of course atlantic salmon can be caught in the rivers with brown sea run trout called "sea trout"and one can catch arctic char in waters in Scotland. A few places also introduced sunfish, but the british seem very loathe to introduce hard fighting fish like wipers, bass and bluegill as they say they,re "intrusive" their word not mine! Personally they do not Know What They,re Missing, but don,t listen to me!
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Wow, I didn't realize there was that many fish to catch in the London area. All I've heard about are these small perch type fish or carp that people catch over there. My biggest wiper was 27" and weighted 9 lbs but my biggest fish to date I caught last fall while fishing for crappie, it was a 40" tiger musky. Here is a picture of that fish. Hybrid type fish like wipers are easy to control because they can't reproduce, so it is surprising they would not consider them but the cost might have something to do with it as well.
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Haven,t lived in the London area since 2002-now near Manchester. I forgot we have grayling in the rivers here, too. My biggest freshwater fish was a 30 pound common carp caught on a live minnow in 1958 in Redfield Lake, eastern South Dakota and totally by surprise. My bigest pike was also a complete shock -a sixteen pound four ounce lady out of that same lake four months later while fishing for crappies with a fly rod with a size 12 black gnat on above the spillway and along the rocks. A tiny crappie grabbed the fly and the pike grabbed the crappie and wouldn,t let go. Somehow I managed to land the "biggie". Would have weighed more, but by the time I got her to the scales more than an hour had passed.
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Wow, that is almost word for word what happened to me with my 40" tiger muskey. Below is a link to my fishing report where I caught that fish, if you want to read about it. Those fish sure love crappie.
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Nice array species to catch[cool]
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