Normally February 28 is the deadline to remove fish houses from lakes in South Dakota. It's a sound policy since it is entirely possible to hit the 40's and 50's by March 1. This year that seems a little hasty.
Sometimes the best fishing spots are the hardest to get to, and if you don't have a boat, you might not have access. Along the Missouri River near Pickstown, South Dakota things have changed.
Every once in awhile these citizen lawmakers need to reassemble in the capital – for us that’s a village known as Pierre, way out west somewhere – to take on some pressing issue.