South Dakota border lake opener??

[ortonville]

Rost,when you headed this way? i got talked into fishin it this year also but so far it has been slow.i will have to see what they do in leauge tonite.if you want give me a call if you still have my #

[Vexipro]

so by the sound of it, theres been about 2 walleyes caught on bigstone so far this season? lol

is it worth my time to head over there this weekend?

[ortonville]

no i think the # is more like 3

[Vexipro]

well load up the boat!

[CWIGUY]

Me and some buddies are heading over their Sat. not in the Tourny just going to FREEZE OUR _ _ _ _ _ OFF. Sounds like their is going to be a "little" chop out their. Hopfully we remember the shovel for the boat.

[ifishsd]

I don't think there will be a tourney since the interstate 29 is closed. Might have to launch the boats with snowmobiles.

[ortonville]

the tournament is now on sunday with rules meeting on saturday

[mudpig]

Not to open up any sore spots, but back to the walleye spawning conversation, there are very few lakes, especially in MN that actually has natural reproduction, im not sure if big stone is one of them. Lake Mille Lacs is, and each spring they average 65 billion walleyes being made, naturally, but they dont strip on this lake. Im in the Brainerd area, and my fisheries proffessor is the DNR areas fisheries manager, and if it wasnt for the 8 stripping stations in the state, there would be very few lakes that actually had any walleyes in them. And if some of these lakes do somehow pull off a year class, it is going to be small, and the odds of these small eyes surviving is going to be minimal. But even if the big females dont succed in the spawn, at least give them a chance to be in the lake to try, because you never know when a big class might succeed. Fry and fingerlings stocked in a lake stand a much better chance than eggs would, being that the eggs have to worry about water temps, and suffocation, or eating all of their egg sacs and then having nothing left to eat.

[Pistol Pete]

How about a report on the tournament on Big Stone?? How did it go??

[CWIGUY]

Well we went out Saturday, not fishing in tournament. Drove from Benson busting thru 2' to 3' tall snow drifts, got to town decided we were going to try to launch from the Rearing Ponds by Kite Island on the SD side. And wouldn't ya know theirs a truck stuck in the access, barried up to the axel in mud and gravel. Walking on the driving area was like walking on a spunge. So after unhooking the boat from one of the trucks and pulling the guy out, we tried a couple other accesses and just as bad. Not sure how the Tourny went. I would say it was one of the most interesting April fishing trips I had ever been on.

[Fish'n guy]

That sucks man! I think 36 boats out of around 140 boats had fish to wiegh in. I was really surprised to even see that many fish brought in given the weather conditions! Some only had 1 keeper while some had some sweet 6 fish stringers! A team from Milbank, SD won the tourney with 15+lbs. I also think they may have had the biggest fish at 4.85lbs. It turned out pretty decent!

[EYE-HUNTER]

Thats surprising for how that cold front moved in like that and still to catch a 15+ lb stringer

[landscaper]

How about now anyone been out on Hendricks or surrounding lakes?

[huntnfishsd]

Is South Dakota 2-0 in this Border Challenge now??