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Bluegill Fishing in South Dakota
21 South Dakota lakes on Bitespan have bluegill on record from state fish-agency survey data. Open any of them for that lake's computed fishing report — modeled bite windows, depth and the species on record.
This page lists waters; it does not rank them. Bitespan holds no catch rates, creel surveys or stocking figures for South Dakota, so it states none — the lakes below are in alphabetical order.
South Dakota lakes with bluegill on record
All 21 of them, alphabetically.
- Bullhead Lakenear Lake City
- Byre Lakenear Kennebec
- Cottonwood Lakenear Agar
- Curlew Lakenear New Underwood
- Elm Lakenear Spring Creek Colony
- Hamak Lakenear Blumengard Colony
- Hayes Lakenear Midland
- Isabel Lakenear Isabel
- Jones Lakenear St. Lawrence
- Lake Andesnear Lakeview Colony
- Lake Cochranenear Gary
- Lake Cresbardnear Cresbard
- Lake Geddesnear Geddes
- Lake Hurleynear Swift Bird
- Lake Louisenear Ree Heights
- Lake Olivernear Gary
- Lakota Lakenear Keystone
- Lantry Lakenear Lantry
- Newell Lakenear Newell
- Pierpont Lakenear Pierpont
- Wilmarth Lakenear Plankinton
Bluegill in other states
Every other state where enough waters hold bluegill on agency record to be worth a page.
Other species in South Dakota
What else South Dakota's surveyed waters hold.
More on bluegill
Seasonal depth, feeding windows and how wind and pressure move the bite — the bluegill guide covers the behaviour behind every report linked above.
Read the Bluegill guide →