First Fall trip to Eden.

[curtisce]

Each spring since 2013 I've gone to South Dakota to fish with my brother and some of his friends. with the rather bad luck I typically have around here and what looked like a streak of good weather in SD I decuded to head north. Thought my brother would come up for at least a few days but he imformed me he took most of the week off.arrived at his house tuesday night and we departed in the morning planning on fishing through Sunday.Plan wsa to target Smallmouth and whatever we caught while dong that would be fine. Started at the lake that typically produced the biggest smallies. hit our favorite structure spots fishing deep and shallow with little success.Caught one 2# smallie which is rare to see one that small. Mades some moves. hooked into 2 large pike, 10# range. Beong I'm a bass fisherman  the my was packed somewhere deep in the storage so we tried landing them by hand so needless to say there are no pictures of those 2. Then we started hooking into some nice eater walleyes on swimbaits. Ended the day with 8 walleye, 6 betwwen 17-19" Your'e allowed one over 20" each so we had 1 right at 20 and 1 23".THrow in a few pike and the livewell was stuffed full. Caught a few smallies that day but I tell my brother those are off limits. Next 2 days were ablut the same we did manage some smallies in the 18-19" range and quite a few below that size. Kept finding the walleye about equal number of eaters vs over 20"ers. Think we only caught 1 walleye that was too small to keep. 3rd day a friend joined us. Went back where we caught the big pike hoping for a replay without success but I did bring in the biggest wallye fo rthe trip 27" ,7.25#. I think it was about to die of old age it didn't put up much of the fight. Saturday the weather turned bad. Rain in the morning followed by stron east wind. Does anybody ever do well with an east wind?  We didn't. Forecast was for the weather looked bad. Strong front with damaging winds that night abd 20+mph with rain Sunday so we cut the trip short. We packed up our campsite and headed out. 

[Johnsfolly]

@curtisce You guys caught some great fish for sure! Congrats!

[Ham]

I need to get up there

[Quillback]

Some nice fish for sure.  Has to be some yellow perch in those lakes too.  

[Ham]

2 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Some nice fish for sure.  Has to be some yellow perch in those lakes too.  

I need some juicy jumbos, but even the little ones are pretty. 

[curtisce]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

Some nice fish for sure.  Has to be some yellow perch in those lakes too.  

The local guide was cleaning 45 at the cleaning station.The lakes that have perch in them are crowded. The lake where we caught those bass had one boat on it , ours