Chamberlin South Dakota

Anyone heard how the bite is out in chamberlin by any chance? heading out the 24th.

It is good. Typical pattern as previous years, but water is down. Be careful!

I was there 2 weekends ago. Bite was tough but we got our limit.
I heard of a few boats this past weekend that did really well.

Rack buster, we are going out on the 24th also, plan to fish Thursday and Friday to avoid the Saturday crowd. Staying west river next to Al’s Oasis.

If you can figure out how to get them to bite.. youll be fine..

My son-in-law was out last week-end. His boss hired a guide for all of his employees. They did really well pulling cranks with lead core line in 18 to 24 ft. He even got a bonus fish. He snagged a 40# paddlefish.

Droptinex2 wrote:

plan to fish Thursday and Friday to avoid the Saturday crowd.

If the weather is nice doesn’t matter what day it is. Have fun. Cedar Shore opened up & docks going in this week, that should help with the crowded ramps.

I heard they are not letting very much water out of the dam

Rackbuster wrote:

I heard they are not letting very much water out of the dam

They run water durning the week. So if you are fishing the weekend it could be slow fishing.

Terry Heese wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Droptinex2 wrote:</div>
plan to fish Thursday and Friday to avoid the Saturday crowd.

If the weather is nice doesn’t matter what day it is. Have fun. Cedar Shore opened up & docks going in this week, that should help with the crowded ramps.

Yep, next nice warm weather we get all of the ramps will be busy; even if it’s a tuesday. Especially since there’s still a fair amount of ice on other stretches of the river yet. Still fun to get back out and enjoy open water again. I’m ready for eyes splashing along the rocks at dark absolutely T-boning F11’s.

Any recent reports? Usually fish the Platte area but going up to Chamberlain for the first time on Thursday night.

Any ideas of ramps to use or depths fish are holding at would be appreciated. Will post a report when we return.

bassh8er wrote:

Any recent reports? Usually fish the Platte area but going up to Chamberlain for the first time on Thursday night.

Any ideas of ramps to use or depths fish are holding at would be appreciated. Will post a report when we return.

Had 7 buddies out there this past weekend. They got their fish shallow away from the crowds, but said a lot of guys were just playing follow the leader up and down the channel. Honestly, with the way the bite was on eastern SD lakes on saturday and sunday I don’t see the appeal of playing bumper boats in chamberlain.

Thanks guys; lots of boats out there but plenty of fish as well

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We had our limit by 8:30 yesterday and by 10 today. Trolling shallow rocks by town.