When is paddlefish season in south dakota




















Several local retail stores carry paddlefishing equipment and sell the necessary licenses and tags. Current season's catch report. About The Caviar. About North Star Caviar. Paddlefish Season. Paddlefish prefer the open waters of free flowing, un-channelized large rivers. In South Dakota, they also occupy the large impoundments and free-flowing reaches of the Missouri River. They feed on plankton.

It took four attempts, but Harmon and his friend Justin Bryan finally pulled the whopper of a paddlefish into the boat, where they admired it for a couple of seconds before Harmon spoke. Yes, it was very big. It weighed pounds, 9 ounces, and broke the year-old state record. The previous record was pounds, 12 ounces, by Don Gregg in April in the Ft. Randall tailwaters. Interestingly, the largest American paddlefish on record weighed pounds and was caught in Kansas in , though there have been unofficial reports of bigger fish, the largest being pounds taken from Lake Cumberland in Kentucky.

At first, Harmon had no idea his paddlefish was a state record. Paddlefish snagging is allowed only from 7 a. Central Time during each day of the additional seven-day season. The use or possession of a gaff on snag-and-release days is prohibited.



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