I got a chance to sneak out today with Jon Mitzel from Dakota Country Magazine for a couple hours on the Missouri River on the edge of Bismarck.  Spent most of our time pitching jigs/crawlers with a little bit of cranking mixed in (which wasn’t effective).  Released around a dozen walleyes and about an equal number of smallmouth and kept a couple walleyes around 16-17″.  It was a slow outing but recently there’s been more fish coming out around the upper teens in town.

The FLW Walleye Tour just left town late last week and the vast majority of the fish came down south.  But overall the fish are starting to get bigger up the system and while the batifish are here in full force, it should still be another couple weeks before it starts to peak.