I Love Exploring New Lakes!

[Bluebasser86]

A buddy and I decided to try Jacomo last Friday. I've been wanting to fish it for awhile but never have decided to pop for the permit. Since I'm not buying a Wyco or Wabaunsee year pass I figured I could swing the permit out there. It's a really nice lake and the 25ph max restriction keeps a lot of bigger boats off the water. $62.50 for a year pass for my jonboat and 15hp motor, about $40 less than either of the other 2 lakes. It must be a popular lake though, I was parking the truck at 0503 and we were boat number 3 on the water! 

With neither of us having any experience on the water we just put the trolling motor down and started fishing. About 2 minutes into the morning I put a chunky 16 incher into the boat on a Big Head Wobbler, followed quickly by another very similar fish on a homemade finesse jig. The size of those first two fish gave me the confidence I needed to start lobbing my 7" Slammer around. Didn't take long before the first fish of the morning smashed into it. Lots of the fish we ended up catching looked like this one, appeared to be recovering very well from the spawn.

Just a few cast later, another toilet bowl flush, and another future Wal Mart Girl.

They weren't all fatties though, don't know why it looks like I was taking pictures with a potato 

We fished south, picking up fish pretty steady, until we ran into the spawning carp. They were everywhere absolutely trashing the shorelines with their shenanigans. We decided to idle across the lake to try to get away from them. Since we were just idling I left the trolling motor down, mistake. We got to the other side, step on the motor, I hear a higher pitched whirling sound than I should and we go nowhere. Pulled the motor up, no prop    No idea what happened. Run back to the ramp, no props in the marina, no problem since BPS is 10 minutes away. Get there at 0730, doesn't open until 9   . Run to Wal Mart, 2 size props, both for Minn Kota  . Messaging Cbass the whole time and he tells me there's a marine shop that opens at 0830 right by me so I ran there, they had 1 Motorguide prop and it was 20% off because they weren't going to carry trolling motor props anymore 

Back to the water and back in business. We cut straight across the lake to a steeper rock bank, first cast with a shakyhead I was back on fish. Shakyhead started boating good numbers of solid fish so I put on an 1/8oz Rocker head with a baby brush hog, first fish with it.

5 1/2 pounds, biggest largemouth of the year so far. We continued steadily putting fish in the boat on shakyheads, Slammer, wacky rig, senko, and Rocker head with a baby brush hog. Going across the dam I set into a fish that just didn't move. She started to come up, shook her head and the hook popped, probably in the 7lb range. Next cast, another bite, 5 pounder slashes across the surface and pulls off. Several more fish across the dam but nothing that big. Got to a boulder bank with lots of water willow, pulled the Slammer back out. Got a couple quick ones before it got destroyed as soon as I started the retrieve. A 6-7 pound fish wallowed on the top, steamrolled into the water willows and pulled off   . Should have had a high 20 to nearing 30 pound bag, instead ended up probably around 18-20 pounds, still a great day. 

[Getfit74]

Sounds like an awesome trip, I love those smaller lakes like that. We have a few around here that are electric only and they are some of my favorite spots to fish

[Bluebasser86]

Sounds like an awesome trip, I love those smaller lakes like that. We have a few around here that are electric only and they are some of my favorite spots to fish

It's actually nearly 1,000 acres, smaller yes, but not when you can only have up to 25hp motors. 

[Dwight Hottle]

Nice report. Sounds like you guys really started to get the big girls moving.

[Brian6428]

Awesome! I live about 2 miles from Jacomo but can't fish it now due to the hp limits. You should look into the buddy bass tournaments they have there occasionally. Now that you have Jackson Co registration, let me know if you ever fish Blue Springs Lake. That place has got me stumped (literally)!

[Bluebasser86]

Awesome! I live about 2 miles from Jacomo but can't fish it now due to the hp limits. You should look into the buddy bass tournaments they have there occasionally. Now that you have Jackson Co registration, let me know if you ever fish Blue Springs Lake. That place has got me stumped (literally)!

Does Blue Springs have a lot of standing timber? I'm going to have a hard time getting myself to try any of the other lakes right in that area for a little bit until I explore Jacomo a little more I think. 

[Will Wetline]

That's a well told tale and some quality bass you found. Thanks.

[jbw252]

Congrats on the great day. (Except for the case of the missing prop)

[Brian6428]

Does Blue Springs have a lot of standing timber? I'm going to have a hard time getting myself to try any of the other lakes right in that area for a little bit until I explore Jacomo a little more I think. 

There is quite a bit of standing timber. You aren't missing much, Jacomo is probably the best lake in the area anyways. I've caught a few decent sized fish from Prairie Lee but it is pretty difficult to pattern. Only been to Blue Springs once and got skunked.

[hookset on 3]

Great day Clayton!

Man, those big girls will break your heart,uh? That's cool that you went from shakey heads to hard swimbaits and still kept tagging them.

[Bluebasser86]

Great day Clayton!

Man, those big girls will break your heart,uh? That's cool that you went from shakey heads to hard swimbaits and still kept tagging them.

Yeah, I was really just happy to see that size fish in the lake. I know there's plenty of them in there to see that many of them my first time on the lake, so I'll get more shots at them. 

 

It kind of reminds me of a couple years ago on a spring day we went from fishing suspending jerkbaits to fishing poppers and kept catching them. Mainly, when we were on a rocky bank I was fishing the shakyhead. As soon as we got to a weed lined bank though, I was back to tossing the Slammer. I'm headed back in the morning with Cbass12 once I get off work, got a BB rigged Hudd tied on already and he's going to be following up with a Slammer, hopefully we'll have a couple pigs to post up 

[Bluebasser86]

In this weeks addition

Well Jacomo was a little tougher today, probably had something to do with it having a LOT more water in it than it did last week. We still caught a good number of fish and some pretty stocky ones too. Got to do some frogging, which doesn't happen very often around here.

Cbass got his first ever frog fish, and a couple more.

Right towards the end I broke out a Funky Chicken colored Big Head Wobbler, wish I would have done that sooner. Had a 5+ follow it one of my first cast.

Cbass got a good one on a Baby Gill colored Big Head Wobbler right before we left too.

[RoLo]

I agree, exploring new water is very exciting, especially when you have your way with the bass.   Kudos to a great day!

Unless I miscounted, I believe there's about a dozen rods in your pic.  It's good to know I'm not the only one         

 

Roger

[gardnerjigman]

I'm hitting Jacomo tomorrow! After reading your thread I probably won't be able to sleep now! Great story!

[Mccallister25]

Nice!

[wanderful]

Hi Bluebasser86, resurrecting a 10-year old thread here: Do you still make it out to Jacomo? I'm out in Grandview, and I'm trying to decide if I want to buy a $30 resident boating permit for Jackson county or shell out $127 to be able to kayak fish the Johnson county lakes as a non-resident. I've had great luck at SML, Black Hoof and Olathe in the past, but I kind of want to save some money this year and try out the local MO lakes.

[Swamp Girl]

Am I the only one who can't see any of the photos?

[Bluebasser86]

12 hours ago, wanderful said:

Hi Bluebasser86, resurrecting a 10-year old thread here: Do you still make it out to Jacomo? I'm out in Grandview, and I'm trying to decide if I want to buy a $30 resident boating permit for Jackson county or shell out $127 to be able to kayak fish the Johnson county lakes as a non-resident. I've had great luck at SML, Black Hoof and Olathe in the past, but I kind of want to save some money this year and try out the local MO lakes.

I haven't fished Jacomo in a few years. You don't need a JOCO permit for Black Hoof or Olathe though. You only need a JOCO permit for SML, Lexington, Heritage (which is closed to fishing this year for renovations), and a couple JOCO ponds. No way I'd drop $127 to fish SML. I like fishing it, but I'm a resident and it only cost me $30 and even that feels like too mucj.

 

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Am I the only one who can't see any of the photos?

No you're not. Those were uploaded through Photobucket which now charges you to use their services and I wasn't going to pay so all my pictures got wiped out by them from those years.

[wanderful]

40 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I haven't fished Jacomo in a few years. You don't need a JOCO permit for Black Hoof or Olathe though. You only need a JOCO permit for SML, Lexington, Heritage (which is closed to fishing this year for renovations), and a couple JOCO ponds. No way I'd drop $127 to fish SML. I like fishing it, but I'm a resident and it only cost me $30 and even that feels like too mucj.

 

No you're not. Those were uploaded through Photobucket which now charges you to use their services and I wasn't going to pay so all my pictures got wiped out by them from those years.

Great to know I don't need the joco permit for Olathe or Black Hoof! Thanks!

[Blue Raider Bob]

5 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

Am I the only one who can't see any of the photos?

No, but I've seen enough of Blue Bassers giants to know how they look! They look like the ones you and Alex catch. And Team9, Pat, AJ, Dwight, Ripzlipz....ect. They don't favor mine at all.

[Swamp Girl]

1 minute ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

No, but I've seen enough of Blue Bassers giants to know how they look! They look like the ones you and Alex catch. And Team9, Pat, AJ, Dwight, Ripzlipz....ect. They don't favor mine at all.

 

But...but...but I truly never tire of looking at pics of bass.