Closing Down The Lake

[Bluebasser86]

Fished Wyandotte County Lake before it closes with sizzlefry Wednesday. Tried for some wipers because Sean and Chris S caught some really nice ones last week. I got my hook straightened on my jigging spoon 3 times and had another one pull off when I changed the hooks out. I did catch 3 very healthy, fat smallmouth in the 16 to 17 inch range. When we gave up on the wipers and started fishing for bass they were pretty willing to play. I had 31, all but those 3 smallies on shakyheads or a luck e strike rc stick Jr jerkbait. Right towards the end of the day I had by far my biggest largemouth I've caught out there this year eat my jerkbait right next to the boat and cruise by the boat like a mini sub. Had a long careful fight before Sean got the net under her. 20" and 4.14 pounds, she had great color and was one of the healthiest looking fish I've seen from out there. This lake doesn't produce many 15" keepers so a fish like this is a giant out there.

I got back out there again Thursday with my friend Van. Way slower than Wednesday, I was afraid we may not catch a thing for a while. Finally got a few bass and whites and one small wiper on jigging spoons. Switched to jerkbaits and it was way slower than yesterday until we got to one bank. It was lights out for about 15 minutes. We fished from 9-3 and probably caught 75% of our bass in that 15 minutes. Right before we left I caught what would be my last keeper bass of the year from Wyandotte, a really healthy 17" fish on a shakyhead. I managed to put a total of 62 bass in the boat over those 2 days, not bad for the last week of November in Kansas

Only 3 more months until it opens back up

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Congrats man...some good looking fish there!

[Bankbeater]

Good job! I wish that I could get a day like that.

[Dwight Hottle]

Nice two days. Way to finish off that season.

[hookset on 3]

BB86, those are perfect specimens, not a blemish on either of them. You've been fishing since January, if my memory serves me right, and it's been a heck of a year in KS .

Time for the Power Plant lakes, right?

hookset on 3.

[iceintheveins]

Why do they close it?

[Bluebasser86]

BB86, those are perfect specimens, not a blemish on either of them. You've been fishing since January, if my memory serves me right, and it's been a heck of a year in KS .

Time for the Power Plant lakes, right?

hookset on 3.

Yes sir, I fish all winter long with the power plant lakes. Our water temps are actually in the low 50's/high 40's still so I'm giving a lake that isn't a power plant lake one last shot today before I'll probably switch over to them exclusively except for the occasional pond. It's been a pretty decent year for numbers but the bigger fish haven't cooperated very well. I've caught 2666 bass this year but only one of those was over 6 pounds.

Why do they close it?

No real reason. They say it's for safety reasons since our lakes, especially smaller ones like it is, usually ice up. It has several underwater springs that cause thin spots in the ice but they could just say keep off the ice and allow fishing until it ices up. They would have to close it for a little while in February still because they stock trout then so they'd have to let them get spread out in the lake.