Lots to talk about in this week’s fishing report. Fished both Devils Lake and Lake Sakakawea. Also, the NWT and Casino Cup tournaments were held on Sakakawea and plenty to talk about there.

First part of this report I’ll talk Devils Lake. Fish are biting! We did have a big bug hatch again up there that had the fish a little off, but they have rebounded pretty well. Lots of mixed size in Devils right now. Like I say in a ton of my reports, pick your poison and go fishing.

Fish are relating to the weeds, the old shoreline structure, old road beds, stock dams, trees, humps and points. I’m just pulling a variety of spinners, slow death and prop rigs and doing well with crawlers.

Now on to Lake Sakakawea. Best part about Sak right now is the fish are still shallow! Last year at this time so many fish were being caught 40 to 55 foot at this time. Not this year. Still catching fish up under 10 foot. Yes of course you can catch your eater size fish out deeper, but if you are looking for a big fish, there are plenty of them up shallow yet. Yesterday our two biggest came just pulling crawlers up in about 10 foot.

One hot topic up here right now is forward facing sonar (live scope) Some of the co partners in the NWT this week didn’t even pick up a rod. They just watched their partner livescoping the entire time. In their defense, if you don’t use it in the tournaments like the NWT or Casino Cups etc. you might as well stay home cause you are gonna get crushed.

Crazy how the game of fishing just keeps evolving and changing. It’s like the quote out of the Movie Moneyball “adapt or die” if you want to be competitive in the tournament game you better be using it and dialing it in. If you are a casual fisherman don’t worry the old way is just fine and still catches fish.