For Us KC Area Guys - Fishing Reports

[KCFinesse]

I was at Truman Saturday looking at a few boats and figured I would hit the lake if nothing panned-out. I heard there was a sizable tournament out of long-shoal and decided to launch out of Tebo/Windsor and have a bit of space to work with. The lake fished high and unfortunately not super well for me. I ended up with a 16" and a few shorts pitching senkos and brush hogs into flooded bushes as well as a couple small spots off of bluff banks. I also pitched a bunch of jigs and 10" worms to no effect. I like fishing it because of the raw amount of turf to fish without heavy boat traffic, but that lake seems to beat the crap out of me pretty consistently.

 

I ended up at Gardner last night but hadn't heard of the recent success in tops out there over the past week. I threw senkos and swim jigs and caught a few in the 16"/17" range as well as a handful of shorts. I had a tough time putting the swim jig down at dusk because they were hitting it pretty hard when they did decide to turn on it. 

 

-Jared

[Bluebasser86]

Hit Miami for a few hours yesterday. Lake looks nasty, probably got a big influx of water and rough fish from the river this past week I'm sure, carp jumping everywhere and even saw some gar. Still had the best fishing I've had out there in a couple years. Once I figured them out it was pretty steady. Still not a single bite in the trees in the middle though.

[Russ E]

Spent the day at Smithville. slow day, but managed to catch 2 decent bass pitching a havoc pit boss.

Here is my take on this tough lake after fishing it several times this summer.

1: bass stay shallow in this lake. But there has to be deep water close by.  Have never caught one deeper than 10 ft.

2: In summer Bass relate to wood, with a rock bottom. I have only caught them on bare rip rap in the spring.

3: Thick lay downs produce better than standing timber.

4:they are heavily fished and easily spooked.

 

 

 

 

Does anybody have any input on fishing this lake?

[Bluebasser86]

 

[SuperVehicle001]

Watkins Mill was brutal today. I was hoping for some fall pattern fish. I got a 1.5lb fish on a spinner bait around 9:30am but after that nothing. My friend that fishes tournaments got skunked. We both figured they would have started to move shallow but they were still in the summer pattern and had moved deep. I'll take not getting skunked but the biggest problem is that my kayak floor deflated... now I have to go and find the hole and patch it.

[matthew3]

Anyone have details on or ever fished the ponds at the Sprint Headquarters/ the Heritage Lake/ Minor Park pond or Blue River at Minor/ Blue River Parkway Pond?

[KCFinesse]

On 9/5/2017 at 7:26 PM, matthew3 said:

Anyone have details on or ever fished the ponds at the Sprint Headquarters/ the Heritage Lake/ Minor Park pond or Blue River at Minor/ Blue River Parkway Pond?

I've never hit any of those, but I have been really tempted to look around the Blue River around Minor Park. The potential for sewage run-off downstream kinda dissuaded me. I have fished Indian Creek some for carp with fly gear and ran into a surprising number of (small) bass. I would assume the blue at or above would fish somewhat similarly.

 

-Jared

[mtkelemen]

Does anybody know anything about perry lake, planning on heading out there this weekend? Good baits, spots etc.?

[Russ E]

1 hour ago, mtkelemen said:

Does anybody know anything about perry lake, planning on heading out there this weekend? Good baits, spots etc.?

I  fished Perry today. It was slow. Fished all the way from slough creek bridge to rock creek bridge.

caught most of the fish in the slough creek arm.

bladed jigs, crankbaits, and shakyheads caught a few Smallmouth and 2 largemouth on rocky channel banks and bridge causeways.

caught a few largemouth in brushpiles, off of points in around 10 feet of water on a jig.

nearly every point in this lake has brushpiles.

No big fish today.

I also caught several drum, white bass, a couple big crappie,and a couple catfish, while fishing the crankbait.

crankbaits seem to catch a lot of other fish in this lake.

 

[Bluebasser86]

4 hours ago, mtkelemen said:

Does anybody know anything about perry lake, planning on heading out there this weekend? Good baits, spots etc.?

The marinas are usually pretty decent with plastics. I've done well on channel swing banks out there also. Perry is more of a quality over quantity lake. I go there hoping for a few good fish, but not many numbers. 

[Russ E]

spent the afternoon at Wyandotte county lake. calm and bluebird sky. 

was expecting to have to finesse a few bites. Shakyhead, Ned rig, and wacky worm produced nothing.

started throwing a chatterbait around shallow weed beds and caught a couple dozen fish.

this one was the largest 19.5 inches . 4.2 lbs. 

 

[joefish]

Sweet!!  I was there yesterday morning and nothing enticed a bite.

[Russ E]

21 minutes ago, joefish said:

Sweet!!  I was there yesterday morning and nothing enticed a bite.

water was really green, must have had an algae bloom.

i usually catch fish on finesse plastics there. but not today.

[joefish]

1 hour ago, Weedwhacker said:

water was really green, must have had an algae bloom.

i usually catch fish on finesse plastics there. but not today.

I believe you're right water was rather green.

 

We should meet up and fish together sometime.

[Russ E]

2 minutes ago, joefish said:

I believe you're right water was rather green.

 

We should meet up and fish together sometime.

works for me . With my schedule , I Fish Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

either Wyandotte or Smithville. occasionally Perry. if you have time one of those days let me know.

[joefish]

22 minutes ago, Weedwhacker said:

works for me . With my schedule , I Fish Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

either Wyandotte or Smithville. occasionally Perry. if you have time one of those days let me know.

Sent you a PM with phone #.  Haven't fished Smithville in years, not been to Perry this year but been contemplating going there. 

[KCFinesse]

I haven't been able to get out fishing of late due to selling a boat, but I caught a shiny one today!

 

I'm thinking smallies on Sunday...

 

-Jared

[TinBoatBassin]

The lake we fished this weekend had bait schooling in the mouths of the largest creeks, cannot wait for the fall pattern to begin.  Jigs were the bait of the day.  Once again I was out fished but things could be worse  Big bass was just shy of 5.  The dotte was pretty solid tonight, once you found them the ned was all you needed.

 

[Bluebasser86]

Miami is starting to come back a little bit I believe, although our last tourney there didn't show it. Big bass and first with this pretty meager showing.

 

 

[SuperVehicle001]

I had my first multi-catch day at Watkins Mill Lake this morning! All on buzzbaits. All four were 12 inches but I'll take them! I usually get one fish if I'm lucky.

I think I finally figured out I wasn't fishing hydrilla. Watkins Mill is filled to the brim with Coontail! I never understood how I could pull up a chunk of weeds 7-8 feet from the bank. Now I know that this weed can go pretty darn deep. It's gotten deeper now that the water has cleared up a bit as well.

So that leaves me with my other question. How on earth do I fish all this coontail? I will toss out a lipless crankbait and I can't keep my rod tip high enough to keep it just on top the weeds. I always grab a huge patch of them!

[Russ E]

2 hours ago, SuperVehicle001 said:

I had my first multi-catch day at Watkins Mill Lake this morning! All on buzzbaits. All were 12 inches but I'll take them! I usually get one fish if I'm lucky.

I think I finally figured out I wasn't fishing hydrilla. Watkins Mill is filled to the brim with Coontail! I never understood how I could pull up a chunk of weeds 7-8 feet from the bank. Now I know that this weed can go pretty darn deep. It's gotten deeper now that the water has cleared up a bit as well.

So that leaves me with my other question. How on earth do I fish all this coontail? I will toss out a lipless crankbait and I can't keep my rod tip high enough to keep it just on top the weeds. I always grab a huge patch of them!

Spent a couple hours at bonner lake or pond. right behind the Renaissance festival. while my boat was in the shop again .

I  Had the same situation. Ended up using a 1/16 oz head and 1/2 a zinkerz (ned rig) And cranked just fast enough to stay above the weeds. Caught 15 bass in 1 hour on that little pond. One was 15 inches, lost another nice one in the weeds.

[SuperVehicle001]

1 hour ago, Weedwhacker said:

Spent a couple hours at bonner lake or pond. right behind the Renaissance festival. while my boat was in the shop again .

I  Had the same situation. Ended up using a 1/16 oz head and 1/2 a zinkerz (ned rig) And cranked just fast enough to stay above the weeds. Caught 15 bass in 1 hour on that little pond. One was 15 inches, lost another nice one in the weeds.

Well my PB for bass in a single trip is now 4 lol. I have a ways to go.

[Russ E]

14 minutes ago, SuperVehicle001 said:

Well my PB for bass in a single trip is now 4 lol. I have a ways to go.

that little pond shocked me. Figured it was fished out, considering the location. I was standing 100 yards from the Renaissance festival. If you do want to fish it, you need the  Wyandotte county fishing permit. the permit also gets you access to Wyandotte county lake. Doubt I would buy the Permit, just to fish that pond.

$50.00 fine  if you get caught fishing withuout it. 

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, Weedwhacker said:

that little pond shocked me. Figured it was fished out, considering the location. I was standing 100 yards from the Renaissance festival. If you do want to fish it, you need the  Wyandotte county fishing permit. the permit also gets you access to Wyandotte county lake. Doubt I would buy the Permit, just to fish that pond.

$50.00 fine  if you get caught fishing withuout it. 

I caught a 5.25 there on a Baby -1 several years ago. Found what I assume was the same fish dead in the trash can with a stick jammed through it's gills later that year. Not filleted, just killed and thrown away. The tiny little pond just down the street to the south has some nice fish too along with a lot of crappie. 

[Russ E]

6 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I caught a 5.25 there on a Baby -1 several years ago. Found what I assume was the same fish dead in the trash can with a stick jammed through it's gills later that year. Not filleted, just killed and thrown away. 

That sucks, but doesn't really surprise me.