SuperFluke Posted April 15, 2014 Posted April 15, 2014 Any one have problems ordering from Mkndo? I ordered on line 4\04 and called later asking about my order. As of today I still have not received it. No problems for me. My order was shipped free to my door in 3-4 business days. Quote
Moose521vx Posted April 15, 2014 Posted April 15, 2014 I would bit our club has a tournament at Coffey at the same time. Quote
lineman82637 Posted April 16, 2014 Posted April 16, 2014 I'm new here and thought I'd say hello. Looks like a lot of good info on here! Dale- East Kansas Bassmasters Welcome Moose521vx i have not been here very long , and I love it lol Quote
lineman82637 Posted April 16, 2014 Posted April 16, 2014 I love that lake, what is the water level like? Are the boat ramps accessible and safe to launch? yes one is open i launch my 17' ranger there all the time . Its still low from the dame repair but still fishes good Quote
lineman82637 Posted April 16, 2014 Posted April 16, 2014 Any of you guys have any experience towing with a midsize SUV? In particular, I'm looking at downsizing to a V6 AWD Toyota Highlander. It's rated for 5,000 lbs, so it would seem that it has plenty of capacity to pull my 17' aluminum triton. I was hoping somebody might have some experience towing with a Highlander or something similar that they'd be willing to share. Can you stop? What kind of mileage do you get, etc? I pull my range with a jeep GC with a 6 in it , it does pretty well 1 Quote
sizzlefry Posted April 16, 2014 Posted April 16, 2014 I'm new here and thought I'd say hello. Looks like a lot of good info on here! Dale- East Kansas Bassmasters welcome Quote
bkohlman Posted April 16, 2014 Posted April 16, 2014 I am heading out to Cedar Creek (near Ft. Scott) next weekend, anyone want to share some tips? Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted April 18, 2014 Global Moderator Posted April 18, 2014 I am heading out to Cedar Creek (near Ft. Scott) next weekend, anyone want to share some tips? Be ready to bounce off a lot of trees! It's 220 acres, 180 acres of trees that are almost too thick to fish. Lots and lots of fish though. Never caught any very big ones but lots of 12-18 inch fish, mainly flipping tubes and beavers and squarebills. Haven't really noticed any place being any better than the others, except if you try to get away from the trees at the dam it seems there's no fish at all there. 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted April 18, 2014 Global Moderator Posted April 18, 2014 Fished Olathe today from 9-12. Started off with a 7/16oz PB&J homemade finesse jig on some brush in about 10' of water. Never had a chance to really pick it apart before so I worked it over pretty good. Missed the first bite I had but stuck the next one, thought I had a really nice bass for a minute, instead it was my new PB saugeye at 22" and 4lbs even Bite was a little slow and I was fishing too fast but still caught several bass too. Most fish were either on the same PB&J home made finesse jig, or a home made swinging football head with a Pit Boss Jr. Only 1 jerkbait bite, but it was my biggest bass of the day at 19" and 3.5 pounds. Fished some deep rocks with the swinging football head, got a sharp thump and was pretty sure I knew what it was, I was right. 17" saugeye on a home made swinging football head and Pit Boss Jr. Both the saugeye came home with me so Cbass and his wife can have a fresh fish dinner 2 Quote
bassinKS Posted April 18, 2014 Posted April 18, 2014 Clayton i bought one of your chatterbaits from mondo before i went down to LOZ and i love that thing! great product!! Little update i havnt been on here much lately but I fish for the KSU fishing team and last month we had our midwest regional qualifier for the BASS national championship. This was a two day tourny (friday and saturday) we went down the week before the tourny to prefish, which fourtanatly was our spring break, during that week we boated ONE fish......So the whole next week we were kinda worried about going down and not catching a single thing. Thursday roles around and we are at the ramp at about noon to pre fish before our meeting we ened up boating two keepers before the meeting which made us feel a little better. Day one is here and we decide we are going to make a far run up north to gravious arm and fish it our first spot yields nothing but our second stop we landed TWO keepers and after we covered it for a while we decided to leave. Our goal of just weighing a fish in our fist college tournament is becoming reality. We ran further up the arm and found a bluff wall to fish on and the second cast with my A- Rig I landed a short and after that one it was on but the problem was it was all shorts. Finally i landed a 4lber to add to the bag. We left that spot and headed down to the glaize to fish the rest of the 4hrs and did not catch another fish. We were sitting in 15th after day one with two of the other KSU teams in 14th and 7th. The cut to go to the national championship was 14th Day two is here and we were happy to even be there at this point, and sitting in 15th with a shot at advancing to the national championship was just a bouns. We deciced to head all the way up to gravious where we caught our 4lber on day one....It payed off big time!! By 9:00am we had our 5 fish in the boat with two of them being 4.5lbs 1 3lber and 1 2lbs and 1 1.5lb. We knew we had to cull that one fish, we stayed on the spot until about noon with no luck at culling him we caught a bunch of shorts. We were headed back to the glaize when we decided to pull in a random cove we have never fished just to get out of wake from a huge boat coming through. I threw my A-rig across the face of a dock and while i was pulling my rig out of the water I got smashed!!! a 5lb 4 oz giant at this point in the day! Thats it we knew we were national championship bound. As the day came to a close we started wondering if everyone one else had as good of a day as we did? we walked across the stage with 18lbs 12oz! that put us in 1st for over an hr that we were in the hot seat! the second place team came up and knocked us off by 1lb 1oz! one more fish on day one and we would have been in 2nd. But we took third in our first college tournament! and we are national championship bound! It was such an amazing experience and i was glad that my parents and girlfriend were there to support us along with 7 other KSU teams. It was announced today that the Championship will be held on Lake chatuge in Georgia. The dates are July 31st and August 1st. 2 Quote
bassinKS Posted April 18, 2014 Posted April 18, 2014 Some pitcures from the tournament. It was such a blessing that this happened and I cant explain how much fun it was! 5 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted April 18, 2014 Global Moderator Posted April 18, 2014 Some pitcures from the tournament. It was such a blessing that this happened and I cant explain how much fun it was! Congrats man! I wish college fishing would have been a thing just a couple years sooner, I would have gone to college for sure just for that reason! Still makes me wonder if I should go back for that 2 Quote
cgs2004 Posted April 18, 2014 Posted April 18, 2014 Some pitcures from the tournament. It was such a blessing that this happened and I cant explain how much fun it was! Thanks for the report and pics man. I was actually the KSU Team's President back in '06-'08 just when collegiate fishing started booming. Sounds like you're off to a great start, best of luck at the NC! Quote
joefish Posted April 21, 2014 Posted April 21, 2014 Thinking about Melvern Tuesday, got open back seat if anyone is interested PM me. Quote
pbrussell Posted April 21, 2014 Posted April 21, 2014 Anyone of you dudes remember what the water temps were at melvern last weekend? I'm probably headed out there this weekend, and have a tournament out there next weekend. I need to break this dry spell of fishing poorly- hopefully vern will be kind to me. Quote
Super User Hi Salenity Posted April 21, 2014 Super User Posted April 21, 2014 Anyone of you dudes remember what the water temps were at melvern last weekend? I'm probably headed out there this weekend, and have a tournament out there next weekend. I need to break this dry spell of fishing poorly- hopefully vern will be kind to me. 55? Quote
Doc-Drew Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Not sure where you guys were fishing but on the south side of the lake Saturday the temps for me ranges from 50-52 Quote
Moose521vx Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Not sure where you guys were fishing but on the south side of the lake Saturday the temps for me ranges from 50-52 I found 57 on the north east side Quote
fknlo Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 It was about 58 at the dam today when I pulled off around noon. Only caught a few whites and one smallie. On the plus side, the smallie was my new personal best. 1 Quote
Doc-Drew Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 Took my father back to Melvern today and we found water temps from 53 when we got there to 64 in the back of a cove. We ended with 25 total fish but the quality wasn't the same as it was for us Saturday. Right before we left I lost a monster smallmouth at the point by the ramp. Easily over 4lbs that just spit the hook right by the boat. About 10 minutes later and closer to the ramp I hooked into another big one. She ended up 19.5" and 4.25 lbs 2 Quote
joefish Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 Took my father back to Melvern today and we found water temps from 53 when we got there to 64 in the back of a cove. We ended with 25 total fish but the quality wasn't the same as it was for us Saturday. Right before we left I lost a monster smallmouth at the point by the ramp. Easily over 4lbs that just spit the hook right by the boat. About 10 minutes later and closer to the ramp I hooked into another big one. She ended up 19.5" and 4.25 lbsimage.jpg I was there today too, never saw temps in the 60's but 57 to 58 in several places. Didn't catch any big guns like you got, but did have several in the 2 # range. Quite a few whites as well. Lake was beautiful today ! Quote
conorsixtakc Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 Didn't have to travel south to find a smallmouth bite yesterday. Caught this off the dam at Clinton Lake. 2 Quote
cbass12 Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 Didn't have to travel south to find a smallmouth bite yesterday. Caught this off the dam at Clinton Lake. WOW!!!! Did you catch anymore? Quote
conorsixtakc Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 WOW!!!! Did you catch anymore? I wanna say we boated 8 more smallies, all dinky compared to the one in that pic. Lost something big at the dam that shook a squarebill off, guessing either another big smallie or spawned out walleye. Two healthy wipers too, all shallow on square bills. Hallelujah, water above 60° with some stain! Quote
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