Fishing near Medora, ND

Medora sits in Billings County in the North Dakota Badlands, flanked by Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Little Missouri National Grassland. The Little Missouri River — the "Little Mo" — runs through the area and is the primary fishing water, a silt-heavy, often-cloudy stream where channel catfish, goldeye, and sauger are the realistic targets for sport anglers.

Top waters to fish near Medora

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Bigmouth Buffalo

Ictiobus cyprinellus

Black Bullhead

Ameiurus melas

Channel Catfish

Common Carp

Cyprinus carpio

Northern Pike

River Carpsucker

Carpiodes carpio

Shorthead Redhorse Sucker

Moxostoma macrolepidotum

Smallmouth Bass

Walleye

Sander vitreus

White Sucker

Catostomus commersonii

Freshwater Drum

Aplodinotus grunniens

Shorthead Redhorse

Moxostoma macrolepidotum

Shortnose Gar

Yellow Perch

Perca flavescens

Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

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