LivewellFish consumption advisories
South Dakota
South Dakota publishes advisories for 36 waters, covering 47 species-and-size recommendations.
Contaminants of concern: Mercury
Waters with advisories in South Dakota
36 waters on file. A water not listed here has no advisory in the state's data — which usually means it has never been sampled, not that it's been cleared.
Lakes 35
- Bitter Lake Day
- Cottonwood Lake (Spink) Spink
- Dry Lake Number 1 Clark
- Dry Lake Number 2 Clark
- Elm Lake Brown
- Enemy Swim Lake Day
- Goose Lake Codington
- Hazeldon Lake Day
- Horseshoe Lake Day
- Kiesz Lake McPherson
- Lake Alice Deuel
- Lake Henry Kingsbury
- Lake Hurley Potter
- Lake Isabel Dewey
- Lake Louise Hand
- Lake Minnewasta Day
- Lardy Lake Day
- Little Moreau Lake Dewey
- Long Lake Codington
- Lynn Lake Day
- Middle Lynn Lake Day
- New Wall Lake Pennington
- Newell Lake Butte
- North Buffalo Lake Marshall
- North Island Lake McCook/Minnehaha
- Opitz Lake Day
- Pickerel Lake Day
- Pudwell Dam Corson
- Reid Lake Clark
- Roosevelt Lake Tripp
- Scott Lake Minnehaha
- South Buffalo Lake Marshall
- Swan Lake Clark
- Twin Lakes Minnehaha
- Twin Lakes (Hwy 81 Lakes) Brookings/Kingsbury
Reservoirs 1
- Coal Springs Reservoir Perkins
Browse South Dakota by county
Every named water in the state, county by county — including the many with no advisory on file.
- Aurora
- Beadle
- Bennett
- Big Stone
- Bon Homme
- Boyd
- Brookings 1
- Brown 1
- Brule
- Buffalo
- Butte 1
- Campbell
- Charles Mix
- Cherry
- Clark 4
- Clay
- Codington 2
- Corson 1
- Custer
- Davison
- Day 10
- Deuel 1
- Dewey 2
- Douglas
- Edmunds
- Fall River
- Faulk
- Grant
- Gregory
- Haakon
- Hamlin
- Hand 1
- Hanson
- Harding
- Hughes
- Hutchinson
- Hyde
- Jackson
- Jerauld
- Jones
- Kingsbury 2
- Lac qui Parle
- Lake
- Lawrence
- Lincoln
- Lyman
- Marshall 2
- McCook 1
- McPherson 1
- Meade
- Mellette
- Miner
- Minnehaha 3
- Moody
- Oglala Lakota
- Pennington 1
- Perkins 1
- Potter 1
- Roberts
- Sanborn
- Sioux
- Spink 1
- St. Charles
- Stanley
- Sully
- Todd
- Traverse
- Tripp 1
- Turner
- Union
- Walworth
- Wilkin
- Yankton
- Ziebach
South Dakota statewide fishing limits
Statewide defaults — specific waters and zones may differ. Verify the current rules before keeping a fish.
| Species | Size | Daily limit | Open season | Keep season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walleye | — | 4 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Sauger | — | 4 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Northern Pike | — | 6 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Largemouth Bass | — | 5 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Smallmouth Bass | — | 5 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Yellow Perch | — | 15 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Black Crappie | — | 15 | Year-round | Same as open |
| White Crappie | — | 15 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Bluegill | — | 15 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Channel Catfish | — | 10 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Chinook Salmon | — | 5 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Rainbow Trout | — | 5 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Lake Trout | — | 5 | Year-round | Same as open |
| Muskellunge | — | 0 | Year-round | Same as open |
Official rules: South Dakota — South Dakota GFP