Bluebasser86

What were you getting your fish on? It's about time to switch over to La Cygne and Wolf Creek for the winter I'm afraid.

Got to Wyco for a few hours today to see if the fall bite was still going good, it seemed to be. I was on the water from 9-12:30 and managed to put 26 bass and a nice crappie in the boat. No keeper bass and the ones I caught were skinny. The low water is punishing them it seems. My biggest of the day was a 17" smallmouth. It's crazy how much smaller a 17" fish from wyco looks compared to the 17" smallies I was catching at Melvern yesterday. It was also the only smallie I caught. I was catching them mostly off the same short stretch of bank and I guess all the action was too much to bare and I got a reminder that I was in fact at Wyandotte lake as I was soon joined by the only other boat on the lake. 400 acres of water with 2 boats on it and this guy parked 20 yards in front of me and was barely a rods length away at times. Takes a lot of will power to keep my mouth shut at times like this. It's about 50 yards to the point behind him so yeah he was way too close in my opinion even though I know there's no law against it, should just be common courtesy but I guess not. I was pretty surpried by my crappie. It ate a trick worm on a shakyhead and was a nice crappie for wyco. Caught fish mostly on a shakyhead but had a few on a Ned rig, one knocker, and squarebill also. Couldn't buy a fish on a jerkbait or chatterbait which really surprised me.

It wasn't green at all. I could see the bottom in 5' of water. It was pretty cool to watch those smallmouth while we were fighting them in. I don't think we had a single fish follow another in while we were fighting it which really surprised me with the water being so clear.

Nicole and I went to Melvern today to see if we could still catch some smallies. We got there around 9 and it was a lot windier than they said it would be (shocker) and pretty chilly. I tried to find some shad to throw net but couldn't find any except a few monster shad flipping on top. We got a couple white bass out of the very north end of the boatramp cove before we went to the dam, Nicole had one really nice one. We doubled up pretty quickly on nice smallies, I let Nicole hold both of them, I'll let you guess which one she caught and which one I caught. They were eating a Ned rig really well and in shallower water than I would have guessed. Nicole got a good one pretty fast. We caught lots of them like this one. The average size was great today, lots of them over 15" including this 17 incher. And this nicely tattoed 16.5 incher. And this 17 1/4 incher. Last cast and last fish of the day also my heaviest of the day at 3.10. We just fished really slowly along the dam almost all day, which was my plan to give Nicole the best chance to catch plenty today and she did pretty well considering how slow we had to fish. We called it a day around 4 when I put bass number 50 of the day in the boat. We had mostly smallmouth but I also had 4 spots, a crappie, and a sunfish and we both had a pair of white bass. They would follow a jerkbait but I only had 2 hit it and it was relaxing fishing super slow with the Ned Rig and catching lots of nice smallies.

Launched the boat and didn't get it tied off as well as I thought when I went to deal with my major case of bubble gut. When I came out of the outhouse my boat was 100 yards from the boatramp and floating very slowly in the light breeze. Water temp was right at 50, too cold to swim. No other boats or people and I'd left my trolling motor down because I was going to start fishing right there since it was a small lake. Bad thing about that is it's a very shallow lake and the trolling motor hit bottom about 20' from the bank once it finally got to the shoreline. I tied some short pieces of rope and bungee cords together and tried to climb out on a fallen tree so I could toss my homemade boat retrieval system. Climbed up a broken, and apparently hollow, willow tree. Right as I got to the top a big raccoon exploded from the inside of the tree and landed in the water. I don't know who it scared more but I was really surprised I didn't fall out of the tree. I managed to toss and get the bungee cord hook on the front storage hatch and drug the boat within reach. I always double check to make sure it's tied up well since then.

Looks a lot like a wiper to me. They hit and pull like a truck, for a freshwater fish anyways.

I'd love to catch a shark, haven't ever had a chance yet.

Very colorful little rainbow.

Nice! Still looking for a big walleye myself. Caught a nice 19" saugeye on a yo-yo'd 'trap tonight. No knife though so he was lucky.

Rage Craw flipped into the water willows. It's a rush when the weeds start parting as soon as the bait hits the water!

Just a personal preference, I'd thicken the skirt up a little bit.

It certainly was not the answer today. My first dozen casts that's what I did and didn't get a hit. Then I hit a clump of weeds and ripped it out and got slammed. 8 of the next 9 casts had the same results. I'd rip it up off the bottom and when I was reeling back down to rip it again I'd feel a tick almost like fishing a jerkbait. A couple of them stopped it on the rip and just stopped my rod completely. My wrist and elbow was literally getting sore from ripping the bait out of the weeds and the fish hitting the bait so hard. I started just crawling it as slow as I could and keep it ticking the weeds and picked up several more doing that. There was a older guy that came down to his dock and was yelling across the lake asking what I was catching them. He said he'd lived there since 1964 and had never seen anyone catch fish out there like that. He was keeping track of how many fish I'd caught for me until it started to slow down and he got cold. I was hoping to get 50 before I left but 43 from the bank from the same area isn't bad

I've caught 12 inchers on 6" weedless hudds here in Kansas. The 4" weedless shad is almost like cheating some days.

With a regular bass jig always.

Well I went to Gardner this morning after work to see if the fish had moved back into the south end with the shad until the cold water moves in. I figured I'd make a few casts and maybe catch a couple fish and go home. 2 hours and 43 fish later I finally packed it in. Nothing big but lots of 12-15 inchers on long casts just slamming an Xcalibur one knocker makes for a good time!

Wolf Creek

Don't go if the forcasted winds are over 10mph and make sure you have a comfortable life jacket because you have to wear them the whole time you're on the water. The rip rap by the outlet and then the dam and the islands by the dam and the areas around them is where I've done best.

War Eagle and War Eagle Finesse. Either in mouse or spot remover colors. If I'm fishing dingy water I like a white or chartruese and white Booyah.

In clear water they probably make a difference but in most of the lakes I fish I doubt they make a difference.

Only if I have a very limted time to fish, like I might take one rod with one crank or spinnerbait if I only have 20 minutes before or after work or something. Otherwise I'm going to have extras.

Them gar can really eat can't they! I was amazed how much my two little long nose gar could put away.

Not a problem, going to be awhile before we see good buzzbait fishing again though

Used to have a big 55 gallon aquarium with a flathead catfish that started out as a little 4.5" fish and ended up over 2lbs before I had to turn it loose. Also had a soft shelled turtle the size of a silver dollar and two longnose gar between 6-9 inches. It was a really fun tank to have and watch how they interacted but man it was expensive to keep! It takes a really expensive filter to keep the water clean and it's crazy how much that flathead and those gar can eat! It was nothing for them to go through a couple dozen minnows a day. Thankfully the turtle was happy munching hotdogs so he was a little cheaper to keep. The flathead got too big so I put it back in the lake it came out of and the gar shocked out changing the water one day so it's at my parents house with regular aquarium fish in it now.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/13845-guaranteed-to-catch-bass/

Send them to me, I'll dispose of them properly for you Seriously would not go fishing anytime I think they might hit a buzzbait without at least 2 3/8oz black Cavitrons, they just flat out catch more fish than any other buzzbait I've ever fished. Biggest surprise has probably been the Havoc Pitboss. I figured they'd catch fish but not as many as they do and still hold up like they do. The Xcalibur Zell Pop has been another on. I knew it would catch fish but something about it just catches way more fish than other poppers I've fished. Disappointment-Jackall Giron and Strike King Sexy Swimmer. I can be on a good swimbait bite but toss one of either of those two baits at them and they won't touch them. The Giron has great action but it just doesn't work for me.