PIERRE, S.D. | South Dakota wildlife officials are moving forward with a plan to stock Atlantic salmon in Lake Oahe, though it likely will be at least five years before any end up on a dinner plate.

South Dakota wildlife officials had wanted to stock the first batch of the new species in the Missouri River reservoir in the Dakotas in the spring of 2016, but a deal to get eggs from a federal ...

PIERRE — The Whitlock Bay salmon spawning station has opened for the fall season on Lake Oahe. Salmon eggs will be collected this fall and taken to state fish hatcheries. The young fish then will be ...

South Dakota’s Lake Oahe has now produced a state-record Chinook salmon for the second July in a row. On the 29th of this year, Darrick Koch, of Watertown, S.D., caught a 31.55-pound, 36-inch fish , ...

Fisheries crews have completed their annual salmon spawning operation on the Missouri River System after collecting about 2 million eggs. Dave Fryda, North Dakota Game and Fish Department Missouri ...

PIERRE, S.D. - Spearing walleyes and northerns through the ice on the Missouri River's massive Lake Oahe is not something new. But, interest in this wintertime activity is growing thanks to efforts of ...