For Us KC Area Guys - Fishing Reports

[Bluebasser86]

Checked it out today after work.  Havoc plastics were $1.99 and Berkely Powerworms and Powercraws were $2.99.  Selection was limited to just a few good brands, but if you like either of those plastics you can go and load up!

It is a little limited on selection but considering that it isn't solely an "outdoors store" it has quite a bit, way more than DSG or Sports Authority. I'm a big fan of Zoom and Berkley soft plastics so it was great to see all those baits by both companies for way cheaper than other stores in the area. I took a couple of their baits for test runs after work yesterday, the fish approved of both their frog and their prop bait. 

[pbrussell]

Nice spot! What part of the lake were you fishing? Hoping to get some big football spots too!

 

I launched out of indian point. Points south of the dam worked, transition banks east of point 5, and where the spring branch met the main lake.

http://www.swl.usace.army.mil/Portals/50/docs/District%20Maps/TableRockLakeMap.pdf

 

The smallies were hanging around pretty decent at point 165-60. 

Crawling jigs in 10-20 fow. 

[fknlo]

It is a little limited on selection but considering that it isn't solely an "outdoors store" it has quite a bit, way more than DSG or Sports Authority. I'm a big fan of Zoom and Berkley soft plastics so it was great to see all those baits by both companies for way cheaper than other stores in the area. 

 

Stopped by myself today.  I like Zoom plastics too and grabbed a few bags.  

 

I hit Melvern yesterday.  The wind was pretty brutal.  I'm guessing around 12-15kts or so.  The only thing I had any success with was a shaky head that I was practically swimming back along the dam.  Did catch my first spot though.

 

 

This was my best of the day.

 

[Mr_Scrogg]

Nice! Looks like you picked up a camera mount. Very handy!!

[Bluebasser86]

Stopped by myself today.  I like Zoom plastics too and grabbed a few bags.  

 

I hit Melvern yesterday.  The wind was pretty brutal.  I'm guessing around 12-15kts or so.  The only thing I had any success with was a shaky head that I was practically swimming back along the dam.  Did catch my first spot though.

 

 

This was my best of the day.

 

Wow it looks like the water was extremely clear? Very pretty looking fish though, and a largemouth off the dam? Only witnessed that once before but it was a 5 1/2 pounder.

[Hi Salenity]

Wow it looks like the water was extremely clear? Very pretty looking fish though, and a largemouth off the dam? Only witnessed that once before but it was a 5 1/2 pounder.

We were at Melvern at the same time, we saw you on our way out. If we would have reconsidered you as a BR member we would have said hi.

We didn't spend a lot of time on the dam we were mostly trying places we normally haven't fished

We got tons of fish all smallies with probably 25+ that were only 6"!

Water clarity was 4' and the fish were on rocks and crevices in about 6' of water no more no less for 90% of out fish. A somewhat smooth gravel bank would not work they were holding to some form of cover

[fknlo]

Wow it looks like the water was extremely clear? Very pretty looking fish though, and a largemouth off the dam? Only witnessed that once before but it was a 5 1/2 pounder.

 

The water was only that clear in the middle of the dam.  The cove to north side of the dam was super muddy and had visibility of less than a foot and it seemed to vary from about 2-10 feet everywhere else I was.  The largemouth came off the north side where the water was just starting to get muddy.

[pbrussell]

Melvern had some good fishing today.

Caught 5 on a sexy dawg early, a number of fish on the biffle hard head, a number of fish on a havoc subwoofer, a number on a dt10 and some more on the ned. Couple of walleye decided they wanted to play too.

Biggest was 17 inches on the nose, and had a few stout 15 inchers. The rest were dinks, but it was still fun.

 

Didn't catch a single largemouth, though I did catch a fish with horizontal markings like a spot but was brown like a smallie. Almost made me wonder if it could've been a meanmouth... fish couldn't decide what it wanted to look like.

[Bluebasser86]

A little late with this report but Jon (basshunter0731) and I fished Melvern Thursday from Midnight to noon. Started slow but once we got them dialed in it was pretty fast paced, I'm sure we boated over 100 fish. A lot of fish were on the small side but plenty of bigger ones mixed in to keep us interesed, good variety too. We both got what we call the Bass Slam (largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass in the same day). I also got a picture that even though it's a little blurry I'm pretty sure it's a picture of Bigfoot, or Jon with a spotted bass he caught on a crankbait by a snell knot attached to the hook that was still in the fishes throat, one or the other.

We never could get hardly a sniff at topwater but they were sure eating squarebills well! The Ned was almost too easy but most of the fish eating it were very small except for one 22 or 23 inch walleye that ate mine. A shakyhead was pretty good for spots in the marina. Caught a few on drop shots and rattle traps. A swing impact was probably the best bait for larger fish and also got our biggest one of the day with a 17.5" fish.

So we got all 3 kinds of bass, sunfish, drum (duh), catfish, white bass, crappie, sauger, and walleye. 2 walleye and 2 crappie made the trip home with us, I'm sure Jon and his family enjoyed them 

[skunked_again]

Melvern is killing it right now.

[Hi Salenity]

Melvern is killing it right now.

Define " killing it " are you catching anything but small fish 15" and smaller (a lot smaller)?

[pbrussell]

Define " killing it " are you catching anything but small fish 15" and smaller (a lot smaller)?

Caught a number at 15, and one 17 out there amidst all the small ones saturday.

[Chris S]

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[Islander Sportsman]

Hey guys... new to the KC area (Olathe) and looking to really get into freshwater fishing. Im from Texas and guided with my uncle along the coast in south Texas in the bays. I purchased a boat In July and have taken it out a few times every week. Ive only taken it to Lake Olathe so that I can get used to it alone before I get on a big water body. Does anyone fish there? Any tips? I recently have found myself throwing soft plastics along the shoreline dropoff and starting to get some hits and a few fish. Any other nearby lakes work putting my boat on?E

 

Eddie

[Bluebasser86]

Hey guys... new to the KC area (Olathe) and looking to really get into freshwater fishing. Im from Texas and guided with my uncle along the coast in south Texas in the bays. I purchased a boat In July and have taken it out a few times every week. Ive only taken it to Lake Olathe so that I can get used to it alone before I get on a big water body. Does anyone fish there? Any tips? I recently have found myself throwing soft plastics along the shoreline dropoff and starting to get some hits and a few fish. Any other nearby lakes work putting my boat on?E

 

Eddie

I live about 5 minutes from Olathe Lake so I fish it fairly often. It's tough right now because of the abundance of shad but it will get better later in the fall after they've eaten a bunch of those shad and have to stop roaming and get back on the banks to chase bluegills and craws again. Shakyheads, squarebills, chatterbaits, and traps are usually good in the fall. Last couple times I've been out flipping a beaver into the water willows was the way to go but numbers were nowhere to be found. 

As far as other lakes close by it's pretty slim pickings, not in numbers of lakes, but lakes worth going to. Cedar Lake in Olathe has good quality but they're tough to catch and if you get 10 you had a great outing. Gardner used to be good but since it got LBV the quality fish are not there. Killcreek is pretty decent but make sure you get your JOCO permits before you go, same with Shawnee Mission if you want to waste your time out there. Lenexa has lots of dinks and a couple bigger fish. Wyandotte is tough most of the time but catch it on the right day and it's a good lake that has bonus smallmouth, make sure you get your Wyco permits out there. Douglas State Lake has tons of dinks and a couple bigger fish, it's my favorite "practice lake" because I can catch fish on about anything. Welcome to the site and the thread. Read up all the info in this thread and check out the pictures and you should get an idea of where to start!

[Bluebasser86]

A little bit of a catch up report here. The wife and I spent Sunday-Tuesday at Table Rock. Lots of fun and the fishing was really good the first day and a half while we were at Aunt's Creek, not so much when we went to the dam. The first night I got on a pretty good worm bite on standing timber. I caught a nice 16 incher then my next pitch to the same tree I caught this 18" fish that was right at 3 pounds.

Right before we went in I caught one of the coolest colored largemouths I've ever seen. At first I thought it was a spot, then maybe a meanmouth, but after I checked there was no tooth pad and the jaw extended past the eye. It was also extremely fat and would have rounded out a nice limit in only 2 hours of fishing.

Next morning we fished from about 6am to noon and they would not leave a Super Spook Jr alone. Even when the sun came up I had nice largemouth torpedoing out of bushes in a couple feet of water to T-bone my spook, and I got to watch most of them eat it

That night we move camp to the dam, mistake. We fished from 6pm-8:30pm. If it hadn't been for Nicole putting 5 fish in the boat on a grub it would have been pretty sad. I worked hard to catch 2 smallmouth, neither one even close to 15". Next day we fished from 6am to noon again. My first cast was a ominous sign as I caught the biggest fish of the trip on an H2O walking bait, a very skinny 3 1/4 pound 20" largemouth.

Nicole never did catch one the last day and I did everything I could think of to catch 2 dink smallmouth. I did lose a heavy fish on a shakyhead and missed a couple more on it but still dang tough even if I'd caught every bite I had. Still a blast, every cast I make on that lake I feel like I'm about to catch a fish. 

 

Wednesday I stunk it up at the Wyco tournament and then went and night fished Lake Quivira with my buddy Tony. No big bass but plenty to keep us interested and Tony got a surprise 10lb flathead on a chatterbait, I swear it's in there somewhere.

 

Friday morning I went to the dreaded Hillsdale, it treated me surprisingly well. I didn't keep track but probably caught 12-15 bass with a bonus crappie and missed another half dozen bass at least. A buzzbait and a beaver bait were the best thing I could figure out, all in really shallow water. Oh yeah, and I FINALLY caught a keeper bass out there. Sucked down my buzzbait right after it came over a laydown in about 2' of water, 20" and 4lbs 9ozs.

[Islander Sportsman]

Hey Basser

 

Thanks! What about boating in some of those lakes with flooded timber... ive always operated in open bays and am paranoid im going to mess up the lower unit hitting some type of structure... how is perry lake?

 

I really appreciate your response... well have to wet some lines together sometime since we both live 5 minutes away...

[Bluebasser86]

Hey Basser

 

Thanks! What about boating in some of those lakes with flooded timber... ive always operated in open bays and am paranoid im going to mess up the lower unit hitting some type of structure... how is perry lake?

 

I really appreciate your response... well have to wet some lines together sometime since we both live 5 minutes away...

Some of the lakes with flooded timber aren't bad and have channel markers that make navigation easier but it's still a little spooky driving through the trees if you've never done it before.  I normally take it slow the first couple times until I get more comfortable with it before I start running those lakes.

 

Perry is my favorite reservoir for largemouth in the state. It has good numbers and some monsters in it along with some really quality smallmouth bass also. The problem with Perry is finding them and getting them to bite. I've had days with 20+ pound limits out there and days that I couldn't buy a strike from a bass. 

 

Lots of guys on here fish together after talking a bit through the site and the guys that don't have a boat all really appprceciate the chance to get out on one. I'd be glad to fish with you sometime but my schedule is pretty weird so if you work Monday-Friday 8-5 it's tough to get days to line up since I work Friday night 11:45pm-8am until Wednesday 11:45pm-8am, no holidays off either. 

[pbrussell]

Some of the lakes with flooded timber aren't bad and have channel markers that make navigation easier but it's still a little spooky driving through the trees if you've never done it before.  I normally take it slow the first couple times until I get more comfortable with it before I start running those lakes.

 

Perry is my favorite reservoir for largemouth in the state. It has good numbers and some monsters in it along with some really quality smallmouth bass also. The problem with Perry is finding them and getting them to bite. I've had days with 20+ pound limits out there and days that I couldn't buy a strike from a bass. 

 

Lots of guys on here fish together after talking a bit through the site and the guys that don't have a boat all really appprceciate the chance to get out on one. I'd be glad to fish with you sometime but my schedule is pretty weird so if you work Monday-Friday 8-5 it's tough to get days to line up since I work Friday night 11:45pm-8am until Wednesday 11:45pm-8am, no holidays off either. 

 

Getting them to bite + finding them at perry is key. I have struggled on this lake, but I figure if I keep putting my time in, things will eventually come together. Today was slow as usual. Had one smallmouth, and one largemouth up in slough creek that jumped off. The largemouth would've gone somewhere between 4-6 but it's hard to tell where it would've gone between those numbers because she hopped off so far from the boat. She happened to bite on a deep crank in the timber filled areas up in slough. Smallmouth was at the bridge. Caught a number of BIG channel caught throwing the deep crank as well. That was odd.

 

This is the only lake that has stumped me as bad as it has. I'm fishing the hot spots. I'm throwing crankbaits, dark plastics, chatterbaits, etc. It's just very rarely to I get it to come together. However, as we all know, I keep fishing it because the fish I do catch have a great chance of being big. (I've caught smallmouth up to 4, and largemouth up to 6 out there).

 

Anyhow, flipped docks at the marina. Fished the riprap around the marina. Fished some main lake points. Fished the bridge in slough. I should've stayed in the timber, however, wind came up and rain came through so I retreated in case things got worse. I want to get out there again this weekend but I imagine the crazies will be insane.

 

Also, I want to be fishing some smaller lakes but don't know of any with paved roads. Yes, I'm gonna be that guy with the shiny glass boat now that tries to avoid gravel. Know of any smaller lakes with paved roads to em guys?

[Bluebasser86]

Getting them to bite + finding them at perry is key. I have struggled on this lake, but I figure if I keep putting my time in, things will eventually come together. Today was slow as usual. Had one smallmouth, and one largemouth up in slough creek that jumped off. The largemouth would've gone somewhere between 4-6 but it's hard to tell where it would've gone between those numbers because she hopped off so far from the boat. She happened to bite on a deep crank in the timber filled areas up in slough. Smallmouth was at the bridge. Caught a number of BIG channel caught throwing the deep crank as well. That was odd.

 

This is the only lake that has stumped me as bad as it has. I'm fishing the hot spots. I'm throwing crankbaits, dark plastics, chatterbaits, etc. It's just very rarely to I get it to come together. However, as we all know, I keep fishing it because the fish I do catch have a great chance of being big. (I've caught smallmouth up to 4, and largemouth up to 6 out there).

 

Anyhow, flipped docks at the marina. Fished the riprap around the marina. Fished some main lake points. Fished the bridge in slough. I should've stayed in the timber, however, wind came up and rain came through so I retreated in case things got worse. I want to get out there again this weekend but I imagine the crazies will be insane.

 

Also, I want to be fishing some smaller lakes but don't know of any with paved roads. Yes, I'm gonna be that guy with the shiny glass boat now that tries to avoid gravel. Know of any smaller lakes with paved roads to em guys?

Just drive really slow and bring a couple towels to wipe the water off before you leave so the dust doesn't stick as bad.

 

Wabaunsee, Ft. Scott, Mozingo, Lone Star, Lake Shawnee, Wyandotte, Lake Lenexa, Olathe, Douglas SL.

[Bluebasser86]

Jon and I were pretty torn about where to go today. It was either going to be Wabaunsee or Melvern, we settled on Melvern and it was a good decision. We caught easily over 100 fish today, all 3 bass, walleye, crappie, white bass, and catfish, no drum!   Caught fish on lots of baits, Ned, tube, zara puppy, keitechs, drop shot, spoons, squarebills, and swimbaits. My first one of the morning hit a KVD 1.0 and went 18 1/4"

We caught lots of smallmouth and a couple other fish with the smallmouth being a pretty good mix of small and bigger fish. Fished around a couple different places then tried the dam. I started lobbing a 5" Bull Shad around and got hit pretty fast by this stocky 18 incher.

I also caught the tough guy of the day on a KVD 1.0

As we were fishing down the dam a couple big smallies started chasing shad literally onto the bank. I fired my Bull Shad at them and hooked up immediately. I thought she was going to be heavier but I'm not at all disappointed by a 20" 4 pound smallmouth 

[Hi Salenity]

Good to see some bigger fish come from that lake!

[tritonguy]

_{You need more crap on the bow of your boat Blue.} 

[Bluebasser86]

We caught lots of them north of 15" but we had a bunch in the 6-8 inch range too. Had several pretty nice spots, 4 short walleye, a nice white bass, 15-20 crappie from 6-14 inches, a 10" channel cat, and a 17" largemouth, so it was a pretty fun day. I have this weekend off so the wife and I may be back down there Sunday. 

 

I was changing baits a lot for awhile so I had stuff scattered everywhere on the deck. Actually the whole area behind me was clear, all you can see is the cluttered area. When those big smallies started blasting shad I was scrambling around pretty fast trying to find my swimbait rod too, even left my tube out on the bottom and almost lost my rod when the boat started drifting because I forgot it was out there. 

[Bluebasser86]

The wife and I fished Melvern again Saturday. It was a lot tougher to find the bigger fish for some reason. We had several in the 15-16 inch range but only 2 bigger than that and they were both largemouth, 17 and 18 inches. We tried a little bit of everything and caught fish on a little bit of everything but they were mainly small fish. I got onto some big white bass for a minute that were fun. Caught a couple really healthy channel cats that pulled really well on light tackle. Caught all 3 kinds of bass again, I think that's 3 trips in a row now