Bluebasser86

Do you fish the strip pits down by Pittsburg very much? I've been down to them several times but I've only caught a couple bigger fish along with lots of smaller fish. Are there certian pits that produce bigger fish? I have one of the pit maps that I keep notes on and so far the best one has been one that it doesn't even show as a pond but a swamp. Other than that one I've only caught a couple 3-4lbers and had a couple bigger ones on. I've fished ones from Pittsburg all the way down past the trout lake. Thanks for any help you can give me!

Is that out of Olathe Lake? I've heard there is some in there but I've never fished for them out there. Nice fish.

I'm hoping to get a chance at one next week. I've only ever caught two and both have been in Missouri. Going to try to get Pomme De Terre to give one up but it was awfully tough last year!

I wouldn't be so worried about the leeches as the sharks you might run into in those backwaters

What color/brand cranks are you catching them on? My wife and I are planning on heading down next monday/tuesday or wednesday/thursday. I don't know Pomme really well but I fished it a few times and even won a tourny out there several years ago but I was in the back of the boat and have no idea where we were at :-/ I'm going to be trying for a muskie but if they don't come through I want a backup plan. I didn't even see a muskie last october down there so hopefully this year will be a little more productive!

I fished bone creek saturday in a small tournament. Had 3 keepers on but put zero of them in the boat. Thought I had a really nice fish on a crankbait early in the morning but it turned out to be a catfish > . Lots of small fish on cranks. About 15 lbs won it so it was a pretty good day for someone! Might go to Melvern Wednesday and fish for some of those brown bass!

I also heard of someone catching a 7lber from Gardner this spring. I heard it was a homeowner on the lake that caught it on a goldfish while he was catfishing. I did catch 2 around 4 or 4 1/2 in March on a spinnerbait but other than that I caught one over 15inches on a jerkbait early in the year and that was it. I fished it a bunch because it was only about a 5 minute drive but I stopped going because I didn't see the point when there really isn't any chance at a bigger fish.

I grew up right by Milford and have fished it tons of times. October is a great time to be out there usually as long as you can dodge the wind. Jigs and cranks are usually good but day in day out the most reliable bait is a shakey head rigged finesse worm, either watermelon or green pumpkin. I like either french fry style worms or BPS Stick-Os in the 4 inch size. I've also done really well swimming a grub and on Chompers style grubs on chompers heads or football heads. Wiggle warts have been pretty good to me out there. I would definately have a topwater rod ready at all times. Not only can you catch bass on it but you'll probably see some wipers and whites chasing bait and that's always a nice bonus. As for location you had it pretty right on. I like points and coves towards the dam. I've never fished the actual face of the dam much but after the last two state record smallies coming off of it I might need to start! Hope that helps! Let us know how you do!

Bone Creek is about 10 minutes south of Ft.Scott. Cedar Creek is about 10 minutes north west of Ft.Scott. Go to kansas department of wildlifes website kdwp.state.ks.us and go to the fishing tab. then click on where to fish in kansas. it lists almost every fishable body of water in the state by region. It has been a very useful tool for me.

I fished Bone Creek Wednesday and Cedar Creek Lake Thursday. The crazy weather on Wednesday made it pretty tough at bone. It really sucked when I noticed it was getting ready to start raining and I realized both pairs of my rain gear were at home in the garage :'( . We still managed to catch a bunch of fish but nothing over 18 inches. Wish I could find the bigger fish in that lake! Cedar Creek was at least 2 feet high after all the rain but still pretty clear. All the standing timber in that lake makes it interesting to fish to say the least. I caught fish on tubes, cranks, worms, and spinnerbaits but again nothing over 18 inches. I did have one crush a 100 series bandit then see how many laps around a tree it could swim before my line broke. Going to go back to Bone Creek next Wednesday and probably Banner Creek Thursday. If I figure out how to post pictures and I catch anything worth showing I'll put them on here!