For Us KC Area Guys - Fishing Reports

[Jeremy Coalter]

On May 7, 2016 at 9:51 PM, bradco said:

Went to Wolf Creek today from 7:30-1. Fishing was very, very good with quality to go along with quantity. Fished southern half of the lake, lake was up a little. Most fish came out of 2-5 feet of water.

Prob 50 caught out of my boat

Tourney down there tomorrow(Sat) as they were setting up for it today, just an FYI 

I have been thinking about trying this lake out, curious to what you were throwing?  I can't think of two many days where I have caught more than 10 bass, 50 is impressive.  Thanks 

[Advantage]

5 hours ago, Jeremy Coalter said:

Hey guys I am still pretty new to fishing on the lakes around here and public lakes in general(grew up fishing smaller private lakes).  After really struggling so far this year I wanted to see if anyone on here had any suggestions.

i fished three days over the past week at Jacomo and Blue Springs and only came away with two small bass.  Water temp was 67-70 and suprisely clear.  I fished the pockets with soft plastics, buzz bait, soft jerk bait mostly.  Tried a spinner bait and swimming jig today.

 

does that sound right or is there another approach that would be better at this water temp?

 

thanks

 

 

 

I haven't fishedBlue Springs either but have fished Jacomo (with bluebasser) a few times and we faired pretty well. It's an older lake with tons of pressure and most of the time fairly clear water. Finesse presentations on spinning gear resulted in most of our fish.

[bradco]

5 hours ago, Jeremy Coalter said:

I have been thinking about trying this lake out, curious to what you were throwing?  I can't think of two many days where I have caught more than 10 bass, 50 is impressive.  Thanks 

Ned rig

[Bluebasser86]

5 hours ago, Jeremy Coalter said:

I have been thinking about trying this lake out, curious to what you were throwing?  I can't think of two many days where I have caught more than 10 bass, 50 is impressive.  Thanks 

50 fish is a pretty standard day during the spring on Wolf, it's pretty incredible if you love huge numbers of fish and almost always a mixed bag of species. 

Ned rig and tubes are pretty much the odds on favorite to catch the most fish on most days out there, but you can catch them a lot of different ways. I like to fish spooks, Whopper Plopper 130, Bull Shad, Keitechs, and spinnerbaits to help mix it up a little. 

[Advantage]

27 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

50 fish is a pretty standard day during the spring on Wolf, it's pretty incredible if you love huge numbers of fish and almost always a mixed bag of species. 

Ned rig and tubes are pretty much the odds on favorite to catch the most fish on most days out there, but you can catch them a lot of different ways. I like to fish spooks, Whopper Plopper 130, Bull Shad, Keitechs, and spinnerbaits to help mix it up a little. 

Ugh, I haven't even gotten to fish Wolf yet this year! :-(

[Bluebasser86]

15 hours ago, gardnerjigman said:

How is that ruining the lake? Looks awesome to me. 

You haven't fished Shawnee Mission Park have you? That's what it looks like they're trying to turn it into, and it used to be a really good lake before they did all that. 

They ranked fishing as the 10th most popular thing to do at Olathe Lake, right behind getting high and blackout drunk I believe. 

First, they'll kill off any vegetation in the lake because weeds are ucky. Shoreline trees will be cut down and any laydowns that can be reached will be removed since they'll probably start allowing swimming to help attract as many people as possible. From the video it looks like the entire cove on the northeast side will be blocked off to boats, but at least that's not a good area to fish  They'll have to remove the bluffs and flatten out the banks to build a lot of the stuff in those videos, which combined with the removal of the shoreline trees will speed up erosion. 

Maybe I'm being a Chicken Little about it, but I don't see any way it turns out to be a good thing. 

[RangerDanger]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

50 fish is a pretty standard day during the spring on Wolf, it's pretty incredible if you love huge numbers of fish and almost always a mixed bag of species. 

Ned rig and tubes are pretty much the odds on favorite to catch the most fish on most days out there, but you can catch them a lot of different ways. I like to fish spooks, Whopper Plopper 130, Bull Shad, Keitechs, and spinnerbaits to help mix it up a little. 

forgot to add bladed jig, jig, wobble head, and I've seen fish come on probably 5 or 6 different big swim baits.

[Bluebasser86]

Just now, RangerDanger said:

forgot to add bladed jig, jig, wobble head, and I've seen fish come on probably 5 or 6 different big swim baits.

Those are my winter time baits out there when it's mainly largemouth in the outlet or trees. Not so much during the warmer months when I'm targeting smallmouth. 

[RangerDanger]

16 hours ago, BankRunnerKC said:

Any seen this? It's the cities plan with Olathe lake. Way to ruin a nice lake. They're doing it with cedar lake too, just click on the suggested "cedar lake" video.

https://youtu.be/L7do51veHjw

I wouldn't get too worried about it until they announce how they are going to fund it. 

[cbass12]

I don't like the idea of these "improvements". Cedar lake has been jacked up ever since they did the 159th/Lone Elm road construction.

[Ondrejka]

On 5/8/2016 at 10:04 PM, Advantage said:

A buddy of mine as his partner took 3rd place out there today...but they were catching crappie! Ya know...since it was a crappie tournement and all. Lol

We caught plenty of those too. It's pretty standard to run into a ton of Smallmouth during the Crappie spawn. But I've never seen you with anything but a largemouth in your hand, so you may not know that. 

[gardnerjigman]

1 minute ago, Ondrejka said:

We caught plenty of those. It's pretty standard to run into a ton of Smallmouth during the Crappie spawn. But I've never seen you with anything but a largemouth in your hand, so you may not know that. 

Awww snap. #aloe4datburn

[Bluebasser86]

Just now, Ondrejka said:

We caught plenty of those. It's pretty standard to run into a ton of Smallmouth during the Crappie spawn. But I've never seen you with anything but a largemouth in your hand, so you may not know that. 

Shots fired! Shots fired!! 

[SuperFluke]

Dwight and I fished Smithville on Saturday as part of Corporate Challenge.  We were in the second flight, but when we got to our starting spot there was nobody there.  Dwight landed three fish pretty quick on a black/blue craw out of flooded grass, but only one was a keeper, and it turned out to be our big fish for the day at just over 2 pounds.  I caught five or six throughout the day, but I only added one other keeper, and it was a skinny 15" fish.  Most of mine came on the black/blue wobbler in the flooded grass/brush.  I had a couple of followers on the squarebill, including one GIANT that followed all the way back to the boat, but I just couldn't get them to commit to it.  At the end of the tourney, we made a last second run to a spot that we had already fished , and I nailed a sand bar right when I came off plane with the lower unit.  Freaked out for a minute, but the lower unit was still there when I trimmed it up...just a little bit beat up.

Overall, we were a little disappointed that we didn't get more keepers but still ended up third in our Division with 4.01 lbs. 

http://www.kccorporatechallenge.com/results/2016

[Advantage]

8 minutes ago, Ondrejka said:

We caught plenty of those too. It's pretty standard to run into a ton of Smallmouth during the Crappie spawn. But I've never seen you with anything but a largemouth in your hand, so you may not know that. 

Yeah, you're right. Green fish are all I can catch. :-(

[Ondrejka]

Just now, Advantage said:

Yeah, you're right. Green fish are all I can catch. :-(

Awww Van that's not true. Somehow you always manage to find any given SFL's biggest Saugeyes.

[Advantage]

5 minutes ago, Ondrejka said:

Awww Van that's not true. Somehow you always manage to find any given SFL's biggest Saugeyes.

Tell ya what, I've caught more toothy critters this year than I have since I was in Canada in '02! 

[Ondrejka]

Just now, Advantage said:

Tell ya what, I've caught more toothy critters this year than I have since I was in Canada in '02! 

Good problem to have!

[Advantage]

4 minutes ago, Ondrejka said:

Good problem to have!

It's weird though...haven't caught a single slab crappie yet this year and normally I'll catch at least a few this time of year while targeting green fish.

5 minutes ago, Advantage said:

It's weird though...haven't caught a single slab crappie yet this year and normally I'll catch at least a few this time of year while targeting green fish.

Did have a 10" black on at doco last week but set hook so hard he came out of the water and slapped tge side of the boat and came off. Lol

[awohlwend]

20 minutes ago, Advantage said:

It's weird though...haven't caught a single slab crappie yet this year and normally I'll catch at least a few this time of year while targeting green fish.

Did have a 10" black on at doco last week but set hook so hard he came out of the water and slapped tge side of the boat and came off. Lol

Caught 2 eaters off the dam on a big squarebill during our Doco tourney. 1 of them probably bigger than any bass we weighed. 

[RangerDanger]

37 minutes ago, SuperFluke said:

.  Freaked out for a minute, but the lower unit was still there when I trimmed it up...just a little bit beat up.

might get it checked to make sure you didn't get any sand in the impeller.

[Advantage]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Shots fired! Shots fired!! 

And all this time I thought the shots were fired when to MO hunters fishin out of a Nitro cashed a check for a crappie tourney on the pro guide's home lake? Lol 

Just now, Advantage said:

And all this time I thought the shots were fired when to MO hunters fishin out of a Nitro cashed a check for a crappie tourney on the pro guide's home lake? Lol 

 

Just now, Advantage said:

And all this time I thought the shots were fired when to MO hunters fishin out of a Nitro cashed a check for a crappie tourney on the pro guide's home lake? Lol 

 

 

[Ondrejka]

Leaving that one alone. Next.

[Advantage]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Shots fired! Shots fired!! 

And all this time I thought the shots were fired when to MO hunters fishin out of a Nitro cashed a check for a crappie tourney on the pro guide's home lake? Lol 

 

9 minutes ago, Ondrejka said:

Leaving that one alone. Next.

Aww, come on...just jabbing back! All in fun.

[micahthorlawson]

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

You haven't fished Shawnee Mission Park have you? That's what it looks like they're trying to turn it into, and it used to be a really good lake before they did all that. 

They ranked fishing as the 10th most popular thing to do at Olathe Lake, right behind getting high and blackout drunk I believe. 

First, they'll kill off any vegetation in the lake because weeds are ucky. Shoreline trees will be cut down and any laydowns that can be reached will be removed since they'll probably start allowing swimming to help attract as many people as possible. From the video it looks like the entire cove on the northeast side will be blocked off to boats, but at least that's not a good area to fish  They'll have to remove the bluffs and flatten out the banks to build a lot of the stuff in those videos, which combined with the removal of the shoreline trees will speed up erosion. 

Maybe I'm being a Chicken Little about it, but I don't see any way it turns out to be a good thing. 

I am torn on all of it.  If it ends up like SMP, it basically means I will never fish it on the weekend.  Besides, I have been fishing Olathe less and less every year.  Only fished Cedar once last year.