SuperFluke Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 3 hours ago, jerm5801 said: Does anyone fish out of Jacomo? Or at least have any luck out there? Welcome to Bass Resource! 1 Quote
jerm5801 Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 3 hours ago, SuperFluke said: Welcome to Bass Resource! Thanks! Ive been lurking for a few days now Quote
awohlwend Posted May 19, 2017 Posted May 19, 2017 Fished Prairie Lee with @Doc-Drew earlier this week after work. Neither of us had ever fished it. Fought wind and green sunfish the whole trip. Must have had 100 sunfish bites, they wouldn't leave anything alone, as evidence from the video. Caught them on everything we threw. Few small bass mixed in. It was a pretty cool little lake. Not sure I'd buy the Jackson County permit to go again though. 3 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted May 29, 2017 Global Moderator Posted May 29, 2017 On 5/18/2017 at 9:51 AM, jerm5801 said: Does anyone fish out of Jacomo? Or at least have any luck out there? I fished it quite a bit a couple years ago when I lived closer. I did really well for the most part with lots of nice quality fish and pretty good numbers. It's a great night fishing lake and a good swimbait lake also. My adventures on my days off a couple weeks ago. 1 Quote
Brian6428 Posted May 29, 2017 Posted May 29, 2017 On May 19, 2017 at 3:33 PM, awohlwend said: Fished Prairie Lee with @Doc-Drew earlier this week after work. Neither of us had ever fished it. Fought wind and green sunfish the whole trip. Must have had 100 sunfish bites, they wouldn't leave anything alone, as evidence from the video. Caught them on everything we threw. Few small bass mixed in. It was a pretty cool little lake. Not sure I'd buy the Jackson County permit to go again though. Nice video! I fish at Prairie Lee quite a bit because I live just a few minutes away. I just got home from college about a week ago and have been fishing quite a bit since, the bluegill have been very active for sure and the average size for bass hasn't been great, so you guys did about par for the course based on my experience there! 1 Quote
KCFinesse Posted May 30, 2017 Posted May 30, 2017 21 hours ago, Brian6428 said: Nice video! I fish at Prairie Lee quite a bit because I live just a few minutes away. I just got home from college about a week ago and have been fishing quite a bit since, the bluegill have been very active for sure and the average size for bass hasn't been great, so you guys did about par for the course based on my experience there! The bigger fish are far between, but they are in that lake. I fished that lake quite a bit before moving from Blue Springs to OP, and I think it's one of the better winter lakes in the metro. There is a wide variety of structure (but a bunch of dinks to wade through). -Jared 1 Quote
DodgeRamWax Posted May 30, 2017 Posted May 30, 2017 So sometime early this morning someone thought it'd be cool to break into my truck. Took some small stuff like 10-15 fishing face masks. Had 3 for myself and others were unopened for friends who wanted to try them out. flash light. My daughters high chair/ shopping cart pad. Moved my golf clubs to get/steal my golf shoes! O yea and My F###### boat keys!!! Low lifes I tell ya. Quote
awohlwend Posted May 30, 2017 Posted May 30, 2017 On 5/29/2017 at 11:03 AM, Brian6428 said: Nice video! I fish at Prairie Lee quite a bit because I live just a few minutes away. I just got home from college about a week ago and have been fishing quite a bit since, the bluegill have been very active for sure and the average size for bass hasn't been great, so you guys did about par for the course based on my experience there! 5 hours ago, KCFinesse said: The bigger fish are far between, but they are in that lake. I fished that lake quite a bit before moving from Blue Springs to OP, and I think it's one of the better winter lakes in the metro. There is a wide variety of structure (but a bunch of dinks to wade through). -Jared Thanks! Glad to know we didn't just suck the day we went. The lake looks great, lots of stuff that looks like it should hold fish. Quote
KCFinesse Posted May 30, 2017 Posted May 30, 2017 8 hours ago, Ondrejka said: Now that I'm out of BassResource jail it doesn't look like I'd missed much. Have been Walleye fishing a lot the past few weeks with no Wolf trips. Had a little club big bass tournament on Sunday for fun. It fished tougher than usual for me especially considering the wind was terrible from the moment we launched. Had one topwater bite before it couldn't be done anymore. There was also a sizeable tournament the day before. Only ones worth mentioning were three 17 3/4 - 17 7/8" fish. Could have stepped on a few if I really wanted to so I could bring one in. 2.91 won it if that says anything. Lots of very skinny fish, huge difference from the last time I fished it with my dad 3 weeks ago where every fish was about to pop. I was out there Monday- just about every smallie we got into looked very beat up. We found a few better largemouth in in deeper water towards the dam while chasing smallmouth. I would've thought we would have run into more around the emergent weeds, but the smallmouth, white bass, catfish, drum, etc seemed a lot more consistent. -Jared Quote
Ondrejka Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 2 hours ago, KCFinesse said: I was out there Monday- just about every smallie we got into looked very beat up. We found a few better largemouth in in deeper water towards the dam while chasing smallmouth. I would've thought we would have run into more around the emergent weeds, but the smallmouth, white bass, catfish, drum, etc seemed a lot more consistent. -Jared Its post spawn about everywhere and that has a lot to do with it. 1 Quote
Super User skunked_again Posted June 4, 2017 Super User Posted June 4, 2017 14 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said: Not watched the video yet but every trip to that lake this year has given up a lot of nice fish. Fished Melvern this morning. I didn't think the fishing was that bad. 6 fish over 15" and 2 over 18". Could not get bit hardly at all on plastics. Most of the fish were on a Bandit 200 whatever they call their sexy shad color. I spent a lot of time thinking a jig and a spinner bait would catch the big fish and zero'd on those baits. Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted June 5, 2017 Global Moderator Posted June 5, 2017 9 hours ago, skunked_again said: Not watched the video yet but every trip to that lake this year has given up a lot of nice fish. Fished Melvern this morning. I didn't think the fishing was that bad. 6 fish over 15" and 2 over 18". Could not get bit hardly at all on plastics. Most of the fish were on a Bandit 200 whatever they call their sexy shad color. I spent a lot of time thinking a jig and a spinner bait would catch the big fish and zero'd on those baits. I think the LMB are starting to come back, kind of like Gardner has been doing the last couple years. The last 3 trips I've had out there produced several very solid keeper to near keeper sized largemouth. Would be an awesome lake if it can get back to kicking out 6 and 7 pounds largemouth and similar sized smallmouth on occasion. Last time I had a good day at Melvern with a spinnerbait was last year in the dirty water. I was fishing a War Eagle with double copper willowleaf blades and a white skirt. They ate it so good that I ruined a brand new bait in one day. I'll probably venture out there sometime in the next few weeks as long as we don't have any monsoons. The lack of pressure has to be doing a lot of good for those fish though, they were getting pounded so much the last few years. 2 Quote
Super User gardnerjigman Posted June 5, 2017 Super User Posted June 5, 2017 You said the M word (melvern)... Can we all have a moment of silence to reflect.... 3 Quote
Super User skunked_again Posted June 6, 2017 Super User Posted June 6, 2017 8 hours ago, gardnerjigman said: You said the M word (melvern)... Can we all have a moment of silence to reflect.... When this thread started Melverd and Cedar were the 2 hot lakes for me. Huge fish in Cedar still BTW. But, like Melvern, not like before. Cedar is on the ropes IMO. I only fish the place maybe 5 times a year now, and most of those days are tough. Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted June 6, 2017 Global Moderator Posted June 6, 2017 25 minutes ago, skunked_again said: When this thread started Melverd and Cedar were the 2 hot lakes for me. Huge fish in Cedar still BTW. But, like Melvern, not like before. Cedar is on the ropes IMO. I only fish the place maybe 5 times a year now, and most of those days are tough. They're supposed to be doing work on the dam at Cedar according to the city of Olathe. You won't be alower to put a boat on it much longer anyways. Quote
micahthorlawson Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 10 hours ago, skunked_again said: When this thread started Melverd and Cedar were the 2 hot lakes for me. Huge fish in Cedar still BTW. But, like Melvern, not like before. Cedar is on the ropes IMO. I only fish the place maybe 5 times a year now, and most of those days are tough. When this thread started I didn't have a "real" boat, so I cannot speak to Melvern. But Cedar was much better. I think those smaller lakes do go in cycles though. Another thing that hurt Cedar so much was the city opening the south half of the lake to bank fisherman. It used to be that if someone wanted to fish on the south said they had to park at the boat ramp and walk across the dam, that minimized the pressure. Now if you go there on a weekend the bank is absolutely lined with meat fisherman. In the last 3 years I have seen MUTIPLE 3 pound bass in buckets. Like @Bluebasser86 said, they are supposedly closing it to boats when the renovate it, so doesn't matter as much. Definitely are some beasts in there still. 1 Quote
Ondrejka Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 19 hours ago, gardnerjigman said: You said the M word (melvern)... Can we all have a moment of silence to reflect.... We don't speak her name yet. Quote
TinBoatBassin Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 4 hours ago, micahthorlawson said: When this thread started I didn't have a "real" boat, so I cannot speak to Melvern. But Cedar was much better. I think those smaller lakes do go in cycles though. Another thing that hurt Cedar so much was the city opening the south half of the lake to bank fisherman. It used to be that if someone wanted to fish on the south said they had to park at the boat ramp and walk across the dam, that minimized the pressure. Now if you go there on a weekend the bank is absolutely lined with meat fisherman. In the last 3 years I have seen MUTIPLE 3 pound bass in buckets. Like @Bluebasser86 said, they are supposedly closing it to boats when the renovate it, so doesn't matter as much. Definitely are some beasts in there still. We fished Cedar on Sunday after hitting up another local lake that was packed. Did better at Cedar than the other lake. We generally don't fish any areas you can hit from the bank unless the bite is really on. The North side is almost unfishable with all of the braided line that is littering the bottom of the lake When we were launching we had one of those meat fisherman cast lines in front and behind my boat...gotta get those fish! Quote
Ondrejka Posted June 7, 2017 Posted June 7, 2017 19 hours ago, TinBoatBassin said: When we were launching we had one of those meat fisherman cast lines in front and behind my boat...gotta get those fish! THEY HAVE TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES!!!!! #meatmaggots Quote
Bassin4Fun2 Posted June 8, 2017 Posted June 8, 2017 Heading to Grand Lake in a few weeks and wondering if anyone can recommend any fishing guides or know anyone that might be able to help. Thank you Quote
TinBoatBassin Posted June 10, 2017 Posted June 10, 2017 Hit up the dot tonight, some solid numbers and a few nicer fish. Cannot complain for a local lake. The wind tomorrow should make it interesting... 3 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted June 10, 2017 Global Moderator Posted June 10, 2017 1 minute ago, TinBoatBassin said: Hit up the dot tonight, some solid numbers and a few nicer fish. Cannot complain for a local lake. The wind tomorrow should make it interesting... I always enjoyed fishing out there when I lived 5 minutes from it. The out of county permit prices and hour drive keep me away now. Having a local lake with a shot at big smallmouth is pretty unique in NE KS. 1 Quote
Super User skunked_again Posted June 10, 2017 Super User Posted June 10, 2017 7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said: Gravel roads to that lake? Quote
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