The hooks will be flying May 1 below Big Bend Dam at Fort Thompson as a revived state paddlefish season gives anglers a change to hook into Missouri River trophies that could weigh 100 pounds or more.

While we fished away from the crowds, I counted 12 boats to the south of us. Unlike the upper end of Lake Francis Case below the Big Bend Dam, current doesn’t seem to mean a lot on Sharpe. “Current ...