For Us KC Area Guys - Fishing Reports

[retro basser]

I went to 2 lakes Yesterday with Miami being one of them. After a bout 4 hours of fishing my total of fish caught for the day was .................1

Yep I said 1

d**n, sounds like the coldfront got em. I'm hoping tomorrow is good, sounds like a bluebird day...

Drew:

I would agree with the grub but would suggest adding a small colorado spinner to keep it from snagging. Nothing wrong with a worm and a bobber if she doesn't want to cast all the time. Could be just my experience with women, but they tend to prefer things that require little to no effort.

[pbrussell]

Going to perry again tomorrow. I'm thinking of getting off the beaten path and going up north, into the little slough creek arm. Has anyone ever heard of anyone doing very well up this far? There are some interesting features on my map that have me intrigued. Anyhow, unless someone can convince me otherwise (that the fishing is terrible up there), I'll be launching from there.

[Bluebasser86]

Going to perry again tomorrow. I'm thinking of getting off the beaten path and going up north, into the little slough creek arm. Has anyone ever heard of anyone doing very well up this far? There are some interesting features on my map that have me intrigued. Anyhow, unless someone can convince me otherwise (that the fishing is terrible up there), I'll be launching from there.

I've done well up around Old Town but further than that the bottom is mainly mud, great for catfishing and bowfishing gar but not so much for bass fishing. I can't find Little Slough Creek on the map though?? What ramp are you planning on putting in at?

[pbrussell]

Little slough creek is pretty much that small arm that juts to the right around old town. According to my map, there's some nice channel banks, points, rock, and pockets all in that area.

[Bluebasser86]

We have done pretty well in that area before, even up in the creek in the cove, it has some pretty decent water with good laydowns. There is also a small marina cove with some good water and rock cover and a couple brushpiles. The riprap along the highway 92 bridge and the riprap around the Old Town boat ramp can both be pretty good also. We don't usually fish up there because there is more places to fish on the south end of the lake and it's a long run with my 16' aluminum and a 60hp motor.

[Doc-Drew]

Well we ended up going to Miami and I am glad we did. As soon as we got their we noticed a lot of small fishing jumping after bugs. I tied on a small grub for my girlfriend to use and after about 5 casts she asked if I had anything that they would jump after. I gave her a skitter-pop and she used it all day. Surprisingly, the fish were very aggressive. Between the two of us we probably caught 40-50 bass. Most were in the 8-12 inch range but 8 were about 12 with the biggest being 15.5. Nothing too big but the topwater action sure made her happy. Catching fish and a happy woman, can't get much better than that.

[Bluebasser86]

Glad to hear you both caught some fish! I'll be taking my wife to Wyco again this Sunday. Hopefully she listens and puts on some sunblock this time. She's still not over her sunburn from last week Hopefully the bass are biting better out there this week. We both caught some but the dang trout kept eating our baits instead.

Big trout on a wiggle wart.

Since they kept eating our baits we gave up and started fishing for them.

This one was a really nice one that ate one of my homemade trout jigs. It doesn't look very big in this picture but the stringer shot with my wife you can tell how big he really was. The other big one is the one that ate the wiggle wart.

Hopefully we'll be catching bass this week like we were catching trout last week.

[retro basser]

Fished Nebo State Friday and Saturday morning and it was brutal. I thought that overcast foggy morning would really have them flying around but It was so calm i'm choosing to blame the bluebird effect. I threw all sorts of stuff at them, spinners and traps weren't working, I got a nice new crank caught on the second cast so i gave up on that. Went slow with dark colored rattling jigs and Carolina plastics. Even tried a downsized dropshot 4' worm...nothing all day Friday. The bites that i would get were more like swipes, nothing would commit.

One older guy out there was picking a couple off sporadically, he was a pretty good fisherman, and you gotta give a guy credit who isnt afraid to use a rocky bank as a dock for a $30K Ranger boat so he can go fishing without a buddy to help park the truck. Anyway he was running a texas rigged smoke tube with a weight and bead so I rigged up one of those and that gave me some success Saturday morning. Still, I often had to wait through some nibbles for them to fully commit to the bait before setting the hook to catch a fish...

So i'm writing all this because one kid the next day thought it must be so slow because they were spawning, he fishes there often. A fair guess since the water was 67 degrees. But i swear the were still mostly staged around the two main lower points on radar. What do you guys think? I spent a lot of frustrated hours on that water trying to figure something out...

[Bluebasser86]

^{I'm not sure there is a ton of bass in that lake. There is for sure a ton of food for them in there though. Lots of small bluegills, crappie, and shad. I've had very limited success in that lake on moving baits. A big, black 3/4oz jig with half a full sized black sapphire brushhog is one of my best baits out there. A junebug curly tail worm has done well for me also. If all else fails a black and blue flipping tube with a rattle or an Eakin's flipping jig in black and blue will usually get a couple bites. It's a tough lake like I said. Don't expect to get many bites. I bet my best day out there I might have caught 15 or 20 all day, but I had a couple 4's, a 5, and that one that went almost 8.}

^{Took the wife to Wyandotte today and tore them up. I ended with a nice round 40 bass with a good ratio of largemouth to smallmouth, 12-15 crappie, and 2 wipers. Jerkbaits and shakeyheads caught a lot of my fish, a couple on a dropshot, some on a wacky rig, and one on a jig. Taking the old man to Melvern tomorrow, hoping the bite down there holds up!}

[bassinKS]

Anyone fish hilsdale lately im lookin to go down there after school today any pointers?

[Chris S]

Anyone fish hilsdale lately im lookin to go down there after school today any pointers?

Fished the Dam Saturday for Walley from my boat, ended up with 3 shorts and a live well filled with BIG whites, Night bite 7 to 11pm seems to be the best for Walleye I just cant keep the 7 yr old out to late, Mid dam I saw two guys at 730pm-8ish catching Whites. 1/4 oz jig head and curlytail grub white or lime green or 1/2 oz blue, chrome and orange rattle trap.

[retro basser]

Yeah i'll try Nebo again someday, it's worth it just to have a shot at a 5 pounder much less a 7-8. I'm not that good with a jig yet but i did have a 3/4 oz one black blue one with a rattle and a havoc pit boss goin quite a bit. I also tried a junebug 7' ribbontail worm in places. I just couldnt convince any it was a good thing to eat. Now KDWP and both guys I talked to out there were using spinnerbaits and I totally agree more that moving baits are not for that lake. Maybe Nebo bass never had to work that hard for a meal in their lives.

Went to Lonestar Monday morning just to see how it's doing this season. It was a wierd day: I caught crappie on bass lures and a bass on a crappie jig. I caught alot fewer bass than i normally do because i was using much larger lures to try to see if anything of decent size was out there. Crappie must be gettin pretty active out there because I caught one just 10'' long on a big ol' 1/2 oz terminator spinnerbait.

Water was 68, they were up in the docks and the grass already, nothing on the main lake. Baits with chartreuse in them seemed to work well.

This was the biggest bass of the day, over 16'' actually but didn't even weigh 2 pounds

[Schweiger]

New member here whats going on gents..I like all the pics!!I I usualy fish LaCygne or Smithville sometimes Hillsdale. Rough water at LaCygne last time I was out when we pulled the boat out of the water and pulled the plug it was draining quite a bit (which it never does). So I'm gonna go somewhere close on Friday just to make sure the boats ok/not taking on water. Might try Olathe/Gardner lake...any thoughts?!

[bassinKS]

Welcome! And I have not fished those two at all this year only two I have fished have been la cynge and Miami county. I was going to head out to hillsdale but ended up at Miami again.

[Bluebasser86]

New member here whats going on gents..I like all the pics!!I I usualy fish LaCygne or Smithville sometimes Hillsdale. Rough water at LaCygne last time I was out when we pulled the boat out of the water and pulled the plug it was draining quite a bit (which it never does). So I'm gonna go somewhere close on Friday just to make sure the boats ok/not taking on water. Might try Olathe/Gardner lake...any thoughts?!

You may have just not gotten the plug in all the way. I do that sometimes and it's surprising how much water can come in if the plug isn't just right. I have never had any success at Olathe this time of year, seems like the water is always really stained and the fish are even fewer and further between than they normally are out there. Gardner on the other hand tends to have a pretty good jerkbait/wacky rig bite going right now, the fish just tend to average pretty small but there are some bigger ones there. I'd pick Gardner without question if it was me.

[Bluebasser86]

Went to Kill Creek for the first time this year to do a little fishing before work. The wind blew a little harder than I was hoping it would that made boat control tough and my wrist is killing me from fishing a jerkbait so much this spring. Caught 14, all dinks and mostly on jerkbaits. Had a couple flipping a pit boss and a couple on a wacky rig too. Tons of moss right now made it pretty tough to fish the trees very much. Best area was the shoreline without trees on the west bank.

[pbrussell]

Trying to figure out what to do with the approaching storms today folks. Some of em look pretty nasty. Gonna wait it out and see if I can't launch somewhere this afternoon I guess. Hopefully the storms roll through sooner than later

[retro basser]

Headed out to fish DGCO yesterday, boy the cold front shut em down. Only fish i caught before noon was 25ft straight down on a hula grub.

Picked up a little bit in the afternoon but they wanted finesse stuff. Seems like that's the only time it's felt 'cold' all spring. Wonder how long it will take them to recover.

[Bluebasser86]

Fished a pond with a friend before work today. We smacked them around pretty good on squarebills, traps, and a pit boss. Nothing huge but a lot of fun. I had a couple dozen and my buddy probably had about the same amount. Up to 579 on the year now.

[pbrussell]

Fished a pond with a friend before work today. We smacked them around pretty good on squarebills, traps, and a pit boss. Nothing huge but a lot of fun. I had a couple dozen and my buddy probably had about the same amount. Up to 579 on the year now.

Man, you're just slayin em. Making the rest of us look bad. Well, making me look bad anyway!

[retro basser]

Fished a pond with a friend before work today. We smacked them around pretty good on squarebills, traps, and a pit boss. Nothing huge but a lot of fun. I had a couple dozen and my buddy probably had about the same amount. Up to 579 on the year now.

No kiddin, you are slayin em. Glad your keepin count, I think I lost track at uhhhh.... 500

Headin up to Atchison County State Lake tomm, looks like a well-maintained property. Anyone have any tips on fishing up there?

[Bluebasser86]

No kiddin, you are slayin em. Glad your keepin count, I think I lost track at uhhhh.... 500

Headin up to Atchison County State Lake tomm, looks like a well-maintained property. Anyone have any tips on fishing up there?

Atchison is a fun little lake. Lots and lots of dinks with a few bigger ones mixed in. The fishing piers on the south bank are usually good to run a crankbait along. The north side usually has a lot of milfoil that you should be able to run a crankbait over the top. My best baits out there are usually bandit 100's in tennessee shad or louisiana shad. There's lots of brushpiles that have been placed in the lake, don't be scared to run a crankbait into those trees, that's how I've caught some of my biggest fish out of there. Flipping the trees is hit or miss for me. Flipping green pumpkin baby brush hogs has been really good a few times up there. One of the best days I've had up there was this time of year on a Strike King Quad shad spinnerbait in white with silver blades.

I would also suggest checking out Warnock Lake while you're up there. It's also called Atchison city lake 23. It's in the town of Atchison and it's even smaller than the state lake. It's very shallow and weedy with several brushpiles but it has very good quality sized bass in it. I haven't caught anything as big as I have out of the state lake but I've caught way more 3-5 pounders out of it that I have from the state lake. It doesn't have the numbers in it either but it seems like when you get one it's usually pretty solid.

[Bluebasser86]

Went to Garnder Lake today from shore on my lunch break. I was at the far south end just past the very last no wake buoy throwing a one knocker xcaliber 50 in ghost color as far as I could throw it, which was over halfway across the cove. 27 bass in 30 minutes, talk about lighting a school up! The shad were schooled up the bass were waiting in the grass along the channel and rushing them as they swam by. Also caught one catfish that a couple pounds. I sure wish I'd of had my boat and more time! Tried a grass pig on a jighead and a heavy spinnerbait but they weren't interested in either. Most bites were at the top of a rip when I ripped it out of the weeds, or at the bottom of the fall. Nothing big but still a lot of fun.

[Hi Salenity]

I had about 30 minutes Today to fish Olathe lake for the first time today .

Total amount of fish caught................0

After I got done biding another job I had about an hour to fish Osawatomie lake (closest lake to my house).

To my surprise I caught a nice fat 4.5#er !

[Hi Salenity]

Went to Garnder Lake today from shore on my lunch break. I was at the far south end just past the very last no wake buoy throwing a one knocker xcaliber 50 in ghost color as far as I could throw it, which was over halfway across the cove. 27 bass in 30 minutes, talk about lighting a school up! The shad were schooled up the bass were waiting in the grass along the channel and rushing them as they swam by. Also caught one catfish that a couple pounds. I sure wish I'd of had my boat and more time! Tried a grass pig on a jighead and a heavy spinnerbait but they weren't interested in either. Most bites were at the top of a rip when I ripped it out of the weeds, or at the bottom of the fall. Nothing big but still a lot of fun.

I'm trying to picture this, were you in uniform?

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