Hambone11

It's really not that bad, it will be busy this weekend but if you get out early and stay off the main channels you're fine.

Hey might be a silly question, but for a noob like me I'm curious, whats that on your left wrist you keep touching after you catch one?

Ah, that makes sense.... Yea whatever it was had some size to them.

Hey guys So I've got a little to report from SMP this weekend. So in two good days of fishing we hauled in 4 cats, 10 or 11 bluegills, 1 largemouth and 1 good ole snappin turtle! Friday morning we got out there about 6:45am, started with a texas rig, fished that for a few hours then went to a yellow/gold spinner... no bites. The future wife was with me and fishing a texas rig... she soon lost her patience and when went to just ole fashioned live worms and bobbers. That's when the bites started rollin in - well sorta haha! Caught a handfull of blue's... then grabbed some lunch came back and snagged 2 cats in the little pond on the SW corner. Didn't get back out there until Monday morning. Again I started with the texas rig, then to spinners... then defeated I went back to live bait and worms (which she had been fishing all morning with some good bluegills to show for it)... Caught a few more blue's. Got lunch. Came back and same story; we both hauled in a good cat, and I snagged a baby Largemouth - about 1 pounder or a "dink" as you may call it haha, but it was fun never-the-less... Now I do want to tell you of the GIANTS I saw flippin out of the water in the Northwest/Southwest corners of the main Lake. I can only assume they were Largemouths - but all morning and afternoon on Monday these guys were hitting the surface HARD. They had to be 10+pounds. They were just outside of my casting range as we were on the banks, but man if i had a boat I'd be over in the corner, so just a heads up...

Hey guys! New to the site, been a reader for about a couple weeks. Just wanted to say thanks for all the good info on here.... Fished a ton when i was a kid up thru my teenage years and got away from it for a while. Now in my late 20's I've been dying to get back into it, so I put together a tackle box, bought a rod n reel for me and the wife and plan on hitting Shawnee Mission Park Friday morning. I am in the Mission area so its great to read about all the reports around JOCO area. I hunt down in Hillsdale and Perry quite a bit but never threw a line out there in either... For now I am restricted to the shore/banks, but I am going to start pricing some little John boats, hopefully talk the boss into an early Christmas present Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks again. Look forward to maybe contributing some info on here one day!