
South Dakota Fishing Report – July 1, 2025 – video
Lakes and the Missouri River continue to produce walleyes. The summertime presentations have taken over – plenty of pulling cranks and using bottom-bouncers.
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Lakes and the Missouri River continue to produce walleyes. The summertime presentations have taken over – plenty of pulling cranks and using bottom-bouncers.

Fishing success has been sporadic on area lakes, but the Missouri River continues to produce nice fish.

The Missouri River continues to be the place people are heading as limits of walleyes are common.

The weather over the weekend definitely limited the number of people going out, but there were plenty of people heading to the Missouri River on Monday. So how’s the fishing?

A lot of people have turned their focus to open water and many anglers are now heading to the Missouri River.

The hotter weather hasn’t slowed the bite at all on area lakes and the Missouri River. What it has done has caused many fishermen to go to their typical “summertime” presentations, such as trolling.

The main story this week is the bite on the Missouri River.

Lakes across eastern South Dakota are opening rapidly, but it’s been too cold and windy to allow fishermen to hit them. Everyone’s attention and focus right now is on the Missouri River. But even there,

Ice fishing season is pretty much over in eastern South Dakota now, and most everyone is thinking about open water. This is especially the case with the Missouri River producing so many walleyes of late.
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