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[gardnerjigman]

Man that wolf creek wind sucked! Glad we made that stop on the way home. Lol

[Bluebasser86]

Wolf sucked yesterday, and the wind blew, hard. I've been called off in a lot less wind and they hadn't called people off yet that I'm aware of when we were taking out. I could barely stand up and the trolling motor was popping a foot out of the water and waves were rolling halfway up the deck about every few waves. Fish were few and far between and not much size to them. Don't know what we were doing wrong, but they really wanted nothing to do with us. I lost what I think was a big walleye on a dropshot but didn't get a good look at it so who knows. Other than one skinny one and a nice one that missed my bull shad, we didn't see a fish over 15" even. Didn't catch anything but smallies and didn't see another boat catch a fish and we had a bunch around us. 

We bailed with the terrible wind and went to Melvern River Pond, only place I could think of. Caught probably 20-25 fat largemouth and missed several more, several drum including a monster I sight fished with a beaver, and Coty had a nice snapping turtle on a beaver  It pretty much saved the day for us. 

[Advantage]

Well, I didn't go to Mound or CV yesterday, wound up going to MC SFL. Caught quite a few 1-2 lb'ers and 2-3 lb'ers and this one decent one that went right at 3.5 lbs. Lost a behemoth (and my custom painted LC 2.5) when she wrapped all the way around a laydown to where she hooked one of the trebs clear around the log and back on the line itself. Worked on trying to get her lose for over 5 mins and when she finally got loose I tried for another 5 mins to get the bait loose...to no avail.   

:-( 

[Bluebasser86]

Just now, Advantage said:

Well, I didn't go to Mound or CV yesterday, wound up going to MC SFL. Caught quite a few 1-2 lb'ers and 2-3 lb'ers and this one decent one that went right at 3.5 lbs. Lost a behemoth (and my custom painted LC 2.5) when she wrapped all the way around a laydown to where she hooked one of the trebs clear around the log and back on the line itself. Worked on trying to get her lose for over 5 mins and when she finally got loose I tried for another 5 mins to get the bait loose...to no avail.   

:-( 

The weeds must be thinned out?

[Advantage]

8 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The weeds must be thinned out?

Yeah...a little birdy told me that the curly leaf pond weed was getting under control, and checked KDWP website and saw that they treated some of it as well as the water temps getting into 70s. So I went ahead and went there...not all gone and lots of floating pieces, and most of what's not floating is in process of dying (which I think is depleting the dissolved oxygen levels). Dunno if it's from that or bank fishermen or not, but saw about a half dozen dead/floating fish...some bass and some drum.

3 minutes ago, Advantage said:

Yeah...a little birdy told me that the curly leaf pond weed was getting under control, and checked KDWP website and saw that they treated some of it as well as the water temps getting into 70s. So I went ahead and went there...not all gone and lots of floating pieces, and most of what's not floating is in process of dying (which I think is depleting the dissolved oxygen levels). Dunno if it's from that or bank fishermen or not, but saw about a half dozen dead/floating fish...some bass and some drum.

And also as you can see...those fish still love the Code Blue BH Wobbler!  Lol 

[Bluebasser86]

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING worth watching from Wolf. Didn't turn the camera on at the river pond, didn't think we'd really catch as many as we did. 

[sdendy]

Went back to Wolf today wind was blowing but was able to put together a pattern and catch around 20 on the jig today shallow. 

[gardnerjigman]

58 minutes ago, sdendy said:

Went back to Wolf today wind was blowing but was able to put together a pattern and catch around 20 on the jig today shallow. 

Don't know where you are finding a jig bite but congrats. 

[awohlwend]

Micah and I went to Wolf Creek Saturday morning as well. Talked about going to Mound City or Cedar Valley but decided on Wolf because we were taking a buddy who doesn't fish much and figured we could put him on some smallies.

The day started out pretty slow. We went straight to the dam and tried to force feed them with topwaters for a little while. Finally started getting bites on a tube but had to make extremely long casts in front of the boat. Water was super clear. Made it the entire length of the dam before the wind started picking up. Found a semi wind blown point and tried more of the same. Surprisingly enough the buddy that went with us who doesn't fish much figured them out, dragging a shaky head out the back of the boat. We all tied on shaky heads and drifted the same 100 yard stretch 3-4 times and caught them consistently each trip. Caught a couple bonus speed shad fish as well. Decided to try and find a largemouth or 2 on the north end and after getting bounced around all the way back to the ramp we just decided to pack it in. Around 40 fish between the 3 of us. Had a handful of fish around the 2.5lb mark but couldn't crack 3. Pretty fun day though, scratched my smallmouth itch for sure.

[ljd1971]

On 6/3/2016 at 6:51 PM, sdendy said:

Fished Wolf Creek today 35 plus smallmouth.   Jig and dropshot was a good day.  

I was out there Friday as well with pretty similar results-- a bunch of solid fish. I was doing pretty well with the Ned, a spinnerbait and a speed shad. Looking back on it, I probably should have tied on a dropshot. Fun day regardless.

I went to Cowley State Fishing Lake Saturday morning. I haven't been on that lake in over 10 years. Eurasian milfoil has taken hold in the meantime. Had some mat blowups on a frog, but didn't hook any. Caught a bunch of dinks on a baby bass Pop-R. Only caught one decent fish (3 lbs or so) on a creature bait.

Finished the weekend at Lake Shawnee this morning. The NE boat ramp only had two open parking spots at 6:30 a.m. Only caught two nice smallies but rest assured Clayton, the drum are still there in force. I gave up and got off the water by 9.

[sdendy]

11 hours ago, gardnerjigman said:

Don't know where you are finding a jig bite but congrats. 

 

11 hours ago, gardnerjigman said:

Don't know where you are finding a jig bite but congrats. 

Caught them shallow swimming a jig in no water was really suprised ran the pattern caught 10 between my daughter and myself. Caught the rest on small jigs with craws. Sunday they would not take the small jigs as well like they did on Friday. When I figure out how to post some pictures I will 

[Advantage]

38 minutes ago, sdendy said:

 

Caught them shallow swimming a jig in no water was really suprised ran the pattern caught 10 between my daughter and myself. Caught the rest on small jigs with craws. Sunday they would not take the small jigs as well like they did on Friday. When I figure out how to post some pictures I will 

If you have Facebook upload the pics to there then pull the pic up in FB then save the photo back to your phone and it'll be small enough to upload here but still bug enough to see without being distorted. 

[Bluebasser86]

42 minutes ago, sdendy said:

 

Caught them shallow swimming a jig in no water was really suprised ran the pattern caught 10 between my daughter and myself. Caught the rest on small jigs with craws. Sunday they would not take the small jigs as well like they did on Friday. When I figure out how to post some pictures I will 

I use photobucket for all of mine. Upload them to PB, on the links you'll select "Direct", then on here you'll click the "Insert other media", right above "Submit Reply". Select "Insert image from URL", paste the link into the box and click "Insert into post". 

[RangerDanger]

On 6/5/2016 at 0:24 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

Wolf sucked yesterday, and the wind blew, hard. I've been called off in a lot less wind and they hadn't called people off yet that I'm aware of when we were taking out. 

They told me 25 mph is the mark in the warm months.

[micahthorlawson]

15 minutes ago, RangerDanger said:

They told me 25 mph is the mark in the warm months.

I wondered what was going on!  First time I have been there on a windy day and I was really surprised from what I have heard about that lake that we were not called off.  We pulled out right before Clayton & Cootie

[gardnerjigman]

44 minutes ago, RangerDanger said:

They told me 25 mph is the mark in the warm months.

I'd be willing to bet it was hitting that. About every 3rd wave was coming over the nose 

[micahthorlawson]

On ‎6‎/‎5‎/‎2016 at 0:24 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

 

We bailed with the terrible wind and went to Melvern River Pond, only place I could think of. Caught probably 20-25 fat largemouth and missed several more, several drum including a monster I sight fished with a beaver, and Coty had a nice snapping turtle on a beaver  It pretty much saved the day for us. 

I fished the River Pond from a canoe about 7 years ago. We went under the bridge and back in the creek area and tore em up. Glad to hear there is still healthy fish out there.  Went back a couple years ago and didn't do so hot

[gardnerjigman]

1 hour ago, micahthorlawson said:

I fished the River Pond from a canoe about 7 years ago. We went under the bridge and back in the creek area and tore em up. Glad to hear there is still healthy fish out there.  Went back a couple years ago and didn't do so hot

We thought really hard about squeezing under the bridge but since the motor can't trim all the way up we decided against it. Did watch a 3lber eat the wrong persons shiner and end up on the death rope. 

[Jeremy Coalter]

May dad and I went to Wolf Creek for the first time on Sunday, what a unique experience.

 

We didn't get on the water until about 10:30am but we caught smallmouth steady until 5:00pm, mostly on a wacky rigged senko.  We also caught some on a Ned and shaky head, but the wacky produced the biggest and most consistent.  We caught around 35 smallmouth several over two pounds but the biggest was 2.60 and 17 inches.  We caught most fish on the rip rap about 15ft off the bank, but also found fish in 2ft of water back in the coves.

I had one largemouth hooked but it spit the hook out right as we were trying to net it, probably 4-5lbs.

 

Great experience, I'll be back!

 

 

[kylek]

I have only been to Coffey County a few times.  When you guys talk about fishing the rip rap are you talking about the area around the hot water side?  Or is there more around the lake to fish? 

[gardnerjigman]

Lots more all over the lake 

[Ondrejka]

1 hour ago, kylek said:

I have only been to Coffey County a few times.  When you guys talk about fishing the rip rap are you talking about the area around the hot water side?  Or is there more around the lake to fish? 

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much rip rap.

[kylek]

Thanks guys.  We want to get out there soon and hope to catch some smallies.  

[Bluebasser86]

Only thing worth showing from last night's suckfest at Gardner.

 

[KSadler]

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Only thing worth showing from last night's suckfest at Gardner.

 

Caught this hog at Gardner over the weekend skipping jigs under docks.