Schuck hoists his state record walleye in front of Upper Lake Oahe. An out-of-state angler who was visiting South Dakota's famed Lake Oahe was trolling a deep-diving crankbait when a heavy fish struck ...

Every year, some of the earliest open-water boat fishing in North Dakota occurs on the Missouri River. Historically, from Washburn, N.D., down past Bismarck-Mandan, this "first boats in the water" has ...

The walleye limit is four fish daily, with one more than 20 inches or larger allowed. Pheasant hunting near the Missouri River on public lands is good to excellent. Last weekend was the opening ...

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 ...

In 1997, Lake Oahe had large numbers of small walleyes that ate a lot of the remaining baitfish, but that's not the case now. And most of the smelt that went through the dam this year appear to be ...