LAKE OAHE, S.D. (KELO) — Early in December 2023, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) announced that fisheries staff had confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in Lake Oahe, the 9th largest ...

This story has been corrected regarding the first name of Jake Davis and the reference to Big Stone Lake as the origin of the Minnesota River. Reporter Bob Mercer regrets and apologizes for the errors ...

PIERRE, S.D. - The screen on Tony Dean's sonar showed large, black splotches. One after another, the clouds appeared as Dean moved his boat along the shore of Lake Oahe in search of walleyes. "Those ...

Cow Creek is more than 100 lake miles south of the North Dakota-South Dakota border, said Ben Holen, aquatic nuisance species coordinator for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Zebra mussels ...

North Dakota's Game and Fish Department is working to raise awareness of zebra mussels in Lake Oahe. Zebra mussels compete with native species, clog water intakes, and can even sink docks and buoys ...

Nov. 12—UPDATE: This story has been updated here. Hear from Keith Pazour about the day he caught the giant walleye. GETTYSBURG — Less than three weeks after a North Dakota angler reeled in a state ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s Game, Fish and Parks Department says slow walleye population growth remains a problem in lower Lake Oahe. Senior Fisheries Biologist Mike Smith says the population ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- As Lake Oahe inches toward a record low, the falling water is revealing artifacts of the past, ranging from concrete burial vaults of recent history to ancient Plains relics from ...

PIERRE, S.D. - Drought-plagued Lake Oahe tied its all-time record low water level Thursday, and Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota and Fort Peck Lake in Montana are expected to follow suit in the next few ...

North Dakota's Game and Fish Department will be stepping up education, prevention and monitoring on the North Dakota portion of Lake Oahe after the discovery of invasive zebra mussels in the popular ...