Spent a couple days in South Dakota fishing this week. Didn't catch alot, but did get a couple nice ones.

Looks like you had a good time. Good to see some places still get cold winters. Use to ice fish here about three months out of the year. That's now a thing of the past. We're lucky to get any walkable ice anymore. This warming trend for years now sucks.

You could drive a truck on the ice we were on. Right at 12".

We are still open water trapping, maybe start making ice after the first.

It keeps warming up and melting the ice we get. Gonna get in the mid 40’s next week. I would have to drive over on hour north to find fishable ice.

Nice catch of fish.Not enough ice here yet to safely ice fish

looks ok, just pulled my shank up to the shed to clean up and take out,

50s here. Normally there would be ice.

I know people were ice fishing in the Lincoln area a couple weeks ago. But, probly less ice now.

I like them big bonus Perch when I fish walleye here on the river.
You got yourself some good eats in that picture.

Mac

Nice catch! Waubay area?

The big ones look like White Perch...

Good deal

I've got wet otter trapping a couple times this winter, but that's moving water so it's never very trustworthy. I see guys out on all the lakes and ponds though

I was on ice too but 11" from shore.

Lots of guys doing well on the big lakes of Montana and Dakota. I have friends on rivers doing fair not near as good as the big lakes.

Gonna check the ice tomorrow at the cabin in wi about 1.5 hours northeast of st Paul, hoping we have enough the kids are going crazy for ice fishing

Yes, we were in the Waubay area. Not alot of people fishing, but we were there Tues.-Fri. Sooo, I reckon that had alot to do with it.