Comfort zone

“The long and winding road…” Dateline: Lake Oahe, South Dakota “There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.”...

Lake Oahe remains a mystery

PIERRE, S.D. — You wouldn’t expect the largest manmade lake in the U.S. to give up all its secrets in only 2 ½ days of practice time, especially on a...

The pros size up Oahe

PIERRE, S.D. — Lake Oahe is the third largest inland reservoir in the United States, with 374,000 surface acres, 2,250 miles of shoreline and stretching 231 miles from end to...

How I’ll fish Lake Oahe

This week the Bassmaster Elite Series heads to uncharted territory for us. We are in Pierre, S.D., on Lake Oahe. My spell-check certainly didn’t recognize the name, and I didn’t...

It’s all about points

Points, this time of year, it’s all about the points for me.  Everybody knows that I don’t like smallmouth and smallmouth don’t like me; so every year, my goal is...

Diversity in lineup for Elites

PIERRE, S.D. — Diverse. That one word best describes the remaining four events on tap for the 2018 edition of the Bassmaster Elite Series. Diverse, as in each playing field...

DeFoe: Lucky 13

I called Ott DeFoe around lunchtime on Sunday because I knew he’d be available, likely looking through the windshield of his truck at some of the 500 miles of terrain...

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