It takes discipline to thoroughly fish each stretch, because the next pool upstream always looks supremely trouty.įor classic beauty in the outdoors, it’s hard to pass up Spearfish Canyon. French Creek is a necklace of pools and riffles. Here, amid herds of buffalo, you can fish near a modern highway, or for the more adventuresome, hike into the French Creek Wilderness. The trout there are big and they’re smart…they’ve tangled with fishermen before.Īnother excellent choice is French Creek in Custer State Park. There’s a walk-in trophy area just above Silver City. In the autumn, trout seem to spend more time where creeks enter lakes, or where shallow and deep waters meet, such as rocky ledges. Upstream, there’s two miles of brand new habitat enhancement and downstream is a walk-in stretch, which has been yielding some lunker browns.īut for big autumn browns, try Rapid Creek above Lake Pactola. Spring Creek, both above and below Sheridan Lake, has some nice trout. South Dakota Fishing never gets old with over 1,100 square miles of water that is ready for fishing. They counted one 22-inch brown, three 20-inch browns, 28 other browns 14 inches or larger, and scores of smaller trout-all in 100 yards). (Recently, biologists electro-shocked a 100-meter stretch of Rapid Creek right behind Baken Park Shopping Center. ![]() ![]() It’s a fact that some of the finest brown trout fishing on Rapid Creek lies within the city limits of Rapid City. Local fishermen say that the best trout streams in the Black Hills are Rapid, Castle, Spring and Spearfish Creeks. You can catch walleyes, northern pike, bluegills and crappies too-but trout top the list for Hills sportsmen.ĭedicated fly fishermen know that September, October and November provide some of the best fishing of the year. In South Dakota, the fishing season never closes! Which makes the pursuit of trout in the streams and lakes of the Black Hills a year-round sport.
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