I was out in Wtn, SD over the weekend for work but was able to sqeeze a day of fishing in. We headed to Waubay on Saturday morning, arriving aroud 10:30 am. We went to the far north end(and for the life of me, I can’t remember the name of that little town). We headed south out of the public access about 1 mile. There was a very large shanty town south of us, it would be hard to miss. We stayed away from the crowds though. We were fishing a very large flat in 23′ of water. Our tip-ups starting going off right away, but the size was very small, 12 inches at best. We caught six fish in the first hour, then nothing. The cold front was moving in and the wind really picked up. I’m guessing this had a huge affect on the fish. When we were catching fish, plain red hooks and white/glow genz jigs seemed to be the hot ticket. I did some jigging, but never saw a fish on the vex or the camera. All in all, it was a pretty decent bite up to noon.
We headed back to Wtn and fished Kampeska for the evening bite. We had two flags, both hook sets pulled the minnows right out of their mouths. It got very cold as the sun was setting and the wind was hitting us at 20 + mph. I could hear the Prop calling my name so we were off the ice by 6:00.
