For Us KC Area Guys - Fishing Reports

[Hi Salenity]

6 hours ago, jeremycnwy said:

Here are some pictures and the video from the giant I caught at LaCygne this weekend. She weighed 10 ls 15 oz and released to fight another day.

 

Awesome! 

[MXHalofan]

Tested out the 93 today. Side imaging didn't show much cover. Thinking I need to wire it directly to the batt to give it more power. Unless anyone has an idea for me to try. Really loved having the GPS and maps. Super impressed with it overall. In this pic, on the left side were trees laying perpendicular to the shore, they barely show up on SI. Or the right is some interference I think I'm getting from a strake a couple inches from the transducer. 

 

[redbirdsfan44]

33 minutes ago, MXHalofan said:

Tested out the 93 today. Side imaging didn't show much cover. Thinking I need to wire it directly to the batt to give it more power. Unless anyone has an idea for me to try. Really loved having the GPS and maps. Super impressed with it overall. In this pic, on the left side were trees laying perpendicular to the shore, they barely show up on SI. Or the right is some interference I think I'm getting from a strake a couple inches from the transducer. 

 

Looks like interference with your prop. Be sure that you run power to your cranking battery and I have a fuse on mine as well 

[Bluebasser86]

11 hours ago, jeremycnwy said:

Here are some pictures and the video from the giant I caught at LaCygne this weekend. She weighed 10 ls 15 oz and released to fight another day.

 

Really an incredible fish. How long did it take for you to realize it was a bass? I've caught a ton of drum off that bank, that's what I would have been thinking the whole way. Good to hear she's back in the lake, looks like the ol gal was about to pop. 

[Sprocket]

Awesome fish.

 

SE Kansas grass grower

[jeremycnwy]

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Really an incredible fish. How long did it take for you to realize it was a bass? I've caught a ton of drum off that bank, that's what I would have been thinking the whole way. Good to hear she's back in the lake, looks like the ol gal was about to pop. 

I had no idea what I had until I got her to the surface. When they get wrapped up a two pounder came make you think you really have something lol 

14 hours ago, Advantage said:

Holy moley! What line did you have on that you were able to wrestle a bruiser that big out of brush without getting broke off? 

10 pound Sunline FC Sniper.

[Ondrejka]

10 hours ago, MXHalofan said:

Tested out the 93 today. Side imaging didn't show much cover. Thinking I need to wire it directly to the batt to give it more power. Unless anyone has an idea for me to try. Really loved having the GPS and maps. Super impressed with it overall. In this pic, on the left side were trees laying perpendicular to the shore, they barely show up on SI. Or the right is some interference I think I'm getting from a strake a couple inches from the transducer. 

 

You should be running 800kHz also. If your unit allows. Also play with the range. I like 70 ft. to start and you can go up and down from there. Blue seems to be the best color palette for me when side scanning.

 

Here's a screenshot of a big rockpile I took last week.

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, jeremycnwy said:

10 pound Sunline FC Sniper.

 

Well the secret is out that you were crankin'! Since you said you caught it on a 704CB with 10 lb. flouro  FIRST. CAST. OF THE MORNING.

 

Hope you get to keep that lake record for a long time!

[redbirdsfan44]

Went back to the "mill" Sunday and had a few solid bites on a finesse jig and a megabass 110. The fish on the left in the picture had a craw coming out her bung hole after I tossed her in the livewell. All fish were released alive and well pay no attention to the audio on the video ?

IMG_1567.mp4

[awohlwend]

19 hours ago, jeremycnwy said:

Here are some pictures and the video from the giant I caught at LaCygne this weekend. She weighed 10 ls 15 oz and released to fight another day.

 

 

Once in a lifetime fish for Kansas. Congrats man! Good thing you went back and pulled the net out before your first cast, boat flipping a DD on 10 pound line might be a little risky!

[MXHalofan]

Yea, I switched to 455khz trying to get better images. Thanks for the tip on blue. And the image  Going to re wire and test tonight

[MacBassin]

Heading to Truman this weekend for the first time. Has anyone fished it recently?

[Advantage]

3 hours ago, cam said:

Heading to Truman this weekend for the first time. Has anyone fished it recently?

Sorry, it's been a couple years since I've fished it. But you oughta be able to get em on spinnerbaits, squarebills, and jigs now.

[ljd1971]

1 hour ago, Advantage said:

Sorry, it's been a couple years since I've fished it. But you oughta be able to get em on spinnerbaits, squarebills, and jigs now.

What he said. If they're not chasing, flippin a jig in cedar trees is usually a solid pattern this time of year at Truman.

[bassh8er]

On 3/19/2017 at 9:27 PM, Ondrejka said:

 

Had another good morning and was called off at 11:30 so not too bad. Just about when it had slowed down anyway. @Bluebasser86 and I have Flair and his buddies out on Wolf tomorrow.

 

How did that turn out?

[Bluebasser86]

20 hours ago, bassh8er said:

 

How did that turn out?

He just posted the video today I believe. 

[Budget_Bass]

Any of you guys been to lake Olathe this year? I am a bank fisherman and have tried it all. T-rig, spinner, cranks of all kinds, weightless and wacky worms, bladed jigs, you name it I've thrown it. I assumed from the warmer days they'd be back into castings distance, but can't find them.

I caught one (small, maybe a pound or so) the week before the cold front a few weeks ago, but nothing since that front. Been a little discouraging getting skunked time after time this year. Wondering if you guys have been catching any, or have spotted them on your electronics. If you have, what part of the lake. I caught the one off the rock wall on the north side of the boat ramp. I assume there would be more coming back up over there, but I've been all around that lake. Maybe they're still too far out after that front? I'd think at least the first group would start coming in by now.

[BradGinKC]

56 minutes ago, Budget_Bass said:

Any of you guys been to lake Olathe this year? I am a bank fisherman and have tried it all. T-rig, spinner, cranks of all kinds, weightless and wacky worms, bladed jigs, you name it I've thrown it. I assumed from the warmer days they'd be back into castings distance, but can't find them.

I caught one (small, maybe a pound or so) the week before the cold front a few weeks ago, but nothing since that front. Been a little discouraging getting skunked time after time this year. Wondering if you guys have been catching any, or have spotted them on your electronics. If you have, what part of the lake. I caught the one off the rock wall on the north side of the boat ramp. I assume there would be more coming back up over there, but I've been all around that lake. Maybe they're still too far out after that front? I'd think at least the first group would start coming in by now.

I fished lake Olathe for a couple hours last Saturday. Water temp was around 47 when I left at noon. Fish were moving a little slow, but they were shallow. Caught most in 2-5 ft on a bladed jig and slow rolling a spinnerbait. And, as always, I caught a few on a black & blue jig. Good numbers, not much size.

I've never fished Olathe from the bank so I'm not sure which parts of the lake you can get to. But I know the dam is accessible, and this time of year you should have some luck along there. I think the city of olathe website has a map with brushpiles that are reachable from the shore. That might give you some targets to throw at.

[Budget_Bass]

7 hours ago, BradGinKC said:

I fished lake Olathe for a couple hours last Saturday. Water temp was around 47 when I left at noon. Fish were moving a little slow, but they were shallow. Caught most in 2-5 ft on a bladed jig and slow rolling a spinnerbait. And, as always, I caught a few on a black & blue jig. Good numbers, not much size.

I've never fished Olathe from the bank so I'm not sure which parts of the lake you can get to. But I know the dam is accessible, and this time of year you should have some luck along there. I think the city of olathe website has a map with brushpiles that are reachable from the shore. That might give you some targets to throw at.

Thanks. I didn't realize the water temp was still below 50. Before the cold front someone told me it was high 50s. I knew it would cool down, but thought it might have warmed back up more than it did.

 

Depending on the weather I'll probably be out there today, along with a few other lakes depending on bites.

[Budget_Bass]

20 minutes ago, Budget_Bass said:

Depending on the weather I'll probably be out there today, along with a few other lakes depending on bites.

Well after looking at the radar it looks like it'll be a better day to work on my outboard and see if I can't get that running.

[MXHalofan]

Went down to Truman Lake today. Really loving this 93SV. Side Imaging is much improved after wiring it to the battery instead of the under console power. It's a learning curve, though. I am eager for more time with it. 

 

Seen a couple huge areas filled with fish on sonar, but they weren't biting. Think they were waiting for me to leave.

 

[KCFinesse]

Fished Douglas with the girlfriend and the dog today and things were a bit slow for that lake. We ended up with 3 dozen, mostly ned and senko fish adjacent to rocks with a few channel swing and jerkbait fish mixed in. Moving baits were a tough sell today. Largest was about 17".

WT 51-53.

-Jared

[Nabes]

First time poster, long time reader here at Bass Resource.  I've enjoyed this informative thread for quite some time and I've been successful in getting my dad logged in and keeping updated as well.  We've been on the water a few times this spring with decent results so I thought I'd post up some of our experience from yesterdays trip to Coffee.

 

Arrived early and we were surprised to be the first boat on the water at 7:18 a.m. Reports seemed to be that the bite was slow.  We hit the outlet first and spent about 45 minutes there with with a nice mix of SMB, LMB, and WB.  The WB were the dominant specie while we spent time there they were hitting top water baits very consistently.  Left that area and headed North to find some cooler water (outlet was upper 70's) and my Dad hooked into a very nice LMB but it was lost at the side of the boat. Headed towards the South end of the lake and spent the majority of the rest of the day there catching SMB.

 

Ended the day with close to 30 combined SMB and LMB being caught on texas rigged worms and craw baits.  The white bass were not counted but they were plentiful and most were in the 15-17" size.  We had a great time.

 

Water temperature at either end was 55-57'.  The sun finally poked at around 3:00.

[TinBoatBassin]

We were the second boat out behind @Nabes and also headed over to the hot water area just to see if we could find a school of hungry fish.  It didn't take long to find them and we worked the school for about an hour alone before a couple other boats joined in on the action.  After the bite slowed there we headed out into the cooler water and found quite a few willing smallies. Depending on the area we also picked up a decent amount of eyes.  Good day overall.  Hard and soft baits all produced.

 

 

[SuperFluke]

Well, I fished Table Rock on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  Tournament days were Saturday and Sunday.

 

Saturday I fished the KC area and found fish on points eating a 2.8 keitech in smoke shad color.  Had a blast catching lots of fish but not a lot of size.  My best five went just over 10 lbs.

 

Sunday I trailered down and fished the Baxter area and found a few in the backs of pockets.  Didn't catch as many fish, but caught a bigger one on a jerkbait that went 3.4 lbs.  Weighed in at just under 11lbs.

 

This was my second trip to fish Table Rock, and I enjoyed this one a lot more than my previous trip when I nearly was skunked.  Seems like the population is extremely healthy and lots of fish to be caught.

 

Thanks @Bluebasser86 for taking us all to school (again). 

[redbirdsfan44]

So I've got a few reels I'd like to sell and I'd rather sell them local. I figured I'd give this a shot here before I posted on the flea market thread.

First one is an Abu Garcia MGXtreme2 8.0:1 RH. I got it with intentions of building a BFS combo and realized that's what spinning stuff is for. I switched out the cork grips with the EVA foam and spooled it with 12lb sunline reaction FC. It's been casted a couple times then I put it back in the box. $325

Second is a RH Shimano Curado 200iHG. Brand new in the box. I got it last week as a gift for helping out a coworker and I just really want something different. $120

Next is an abu Garcia 5601 (lefty) ssc3 ambassador. I used it on a swimbait setup and have upgraded. It's a great swimbait reel for someone just getting into the swimbait game. $55

Last is a Lews Tournament Pro 7.1:1 RH. The reel is in good condition. I took the carbon fiber handle off to put on another reel so it has a daiwa handle on it now. This is the previous model tourney pro and has been used for a couple of seasons but always taken care of. $85

If this is not allowed then remove post and I will post in flea market thread. PM me and I can send pictures. Again I would really like to sell local and not have to ship