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April 30, 2002 - El Dorado - Fished
El Dorado Lake on 4/28. Water temp. was 58F and the wind
was 5-10 mph out of the N-NE. Caught one 20" flat
head in 16' of water on a break near a point using a jig and
crawler. Drift-fished the points and drop-offs from 6'-30'
of water and had very little luck. April 29, 2002 - Clinton - Just
returned from Clinton and I would say the crappie catching had
slowed down considerably. I took my cousin from Illinois to show
how good the crappie fishing is this time of year in Kansas,
but I had to eat my words. We only caught 2 small crappie after
8 hrs. on the water. We tried the shallows and 15-20 feet. Not
even the trusty chartruese twister or skirt worked. Last week
I did bring in 27 nice slabs from the shore in the marina cove.
Today the cove didn't bring in one fish. After talking with several
boaters they also agreed today was a very very slow day on the
water at Clinton Lake. I just hope the spawn is not over at Clinton.
Does anybody know if the crappie at Perry Lake have moved into
the shallows? April 27, 2002 - Lakewood Community Lake - Salina -Just stocked. Catching 1 1/2 to 3 pound channels on doughbaits and nightcrawlwers. caught my limit in 2 hours 4-22-2002. April 23, 2002 - Cheney - Hey
Jim. Clark and I fished Cheney today and caught a nice mess of
super sized crappie. Found them real shallow and most are still
males. Had some big 13 and 14 inchers. Walleye anglers everywhere
prefishing before the tournament this coming Saturday. Water
temp is 62 in the shallows and high 50's on the main lake. Thanks
Mike Cook -
Four Lake Guides April 25, 2002 - Winfield City Lake
- crappie have been hot at winfield past 2 weeks.
have limited nearly every day. best is in mornings.
afternoon bite slowing down. south shore, any of
the first 5 coves, back along the rocks in 2-6 feet of water.
we've primarily been jigging with chartreuse tubes and
yellow feather jigs, but minnows are working well too. have
caught a nice number of 1 1/2 pound sand April 25, 2002 - Pomona & Melvern
- 20th April bank fishing at pomona with son
got out at 11:00 am caught 3 crappie right at 10"
lenght one was nice looking black male water still real
low due to repairs of dam. Rain moved in around noon . Drove
over to melvern fished off docks caught a lot of small crappie
and a few keepers saw quite a few baskets half full
of crappie all nice size if weather holds the slabs should be
moving in to spawn . Pomona water was dirty. Melvern very clear
. Next two weeks should be full blown spawn. Have a great day
fishing Chris Shriver avid fisherman April 24, 2002 - Wilson - Fished the Minooka area this afternoon and caught 13 stripers up to 18 lbs. The stripers hit real good prior to a wind shift then shut off. I was fishing a fast breaking point near the river channel with live shad fished between 14 and 28 feet Good Luck. Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide April 23, 2002 - Marion, Fall River, El Dorado - Short report for you. The rain really mudded up the river and white bass fishing on the Cottonwood up at Marion. But the channel cat are up in the shallows and blasting the Junnies Dip Bait. Doing good for channels at Fall River and Kaw. The crappie bite at El Dorado continues to be good when the wind doesn't howl. Catching them in the river at Fall River too. Mike Cook - Four Lake Guides April 20, 2002 - Wilson Short
report for you. The rain really mudded up the river and white
bass fishing on the Cottonwood up at Marion. But the channel
cat are up in the shallows and blasting the Junnies Dip Bait.
Doing good for channels at Fall April 20, 2002 - Wilson - Fishing this week has been a little up and down with the winds being the big factor. But despite it we managed to catch quite a few 4 to 5 # stripers, a few walleye and smallmouth. The weather today was cold and rainy and it took awhile to get on the fish but when I did I caught 10 stripers up to 15 lbs. I have been fishing the upper end of Wilson from Minooka west on the shallow water breaks with live shad. I am still getting reports of the whites being in the river at least until this cold front hit. Sure hope the weather settles down this week, Good Luck. Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide April 18, 2002 - Winfield City Lake - Thursday April 18 2002 Went to Winfield city lake the three of us limited out on crappie. Had to throw several nice ones back. ended up with 1 nice walleye also. April 16, 2002 - Leavenworth SFL - We just got back from Leavenworth State Lake, we marked alot of fish on the fish finder about 3ft deep over 6-10 ft of water near the boat ramp. we caught several crappie on white jigs. weather was bad early in the day but the fish did'nt seem to mind April 15, 2002 - Kingman SFL - The
pressure at Kingman is increasing everyday. Saturday, had
at least 5 boats on it just in the 2 hours I was there.
Caught 3 largemouth 20+ inches on white roadrunners and small
spinnerbaits. Caught 2 pike on the same baits but they
were less than 18" not than impresive for pike. Fish
appear to be coming out of the deepest water to cruise the shallows-reeds.
Trash is everyone's responsibility, good luck. Raydog April 14, 2002 - Big Hill - I fished big Hill From about 4:30 until dark 30 on the 13 day of April.. I caught a few fish on jerk baits in the upper end of the lake fishing is still slow.. The water temp is 46 and the water is clear.. ( Everyone remember to practice CPR Catch Picture and release) Big hill is getting a lot of pressure and it is starting too show in the creel limits of nice size large mouth... remeber the bass are not only competing us, they are also competing the white bass now. April 11, 2002 - Louisburg-Middle Creek - HAVE BEEN STEAM FISHING. DO NOT HAVE BOAT. HAVE BEEN TO LOUISBURG-MIDDLECREEK, FISHING ALONG THE STREAM. ANY POINTERS, OTHER STREAMS/RIVERS THAT ARE GOOD. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS, DON BASLER, DB10114837@AOL.COM April 11, 2002 - Cheney - I
am the fisheries biologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife
and Parks at Cheney Reservoir. I just noticed the report
posted April 1 by Mitch B. about the dead walleye in our traps.
I wasn't too happy about it either. The wind was forecast
to be NE at 5 mph on the morning of 3/29, but instead it was
NW at 30 mph. The National Weather Service is not wrong
on the wind direction and speed very often, but they were that
day. We killed about 30 or so walleye, and had a fair amount
of damage to traps. April 9, 2002 - Ottawa State Lake - went out at 1:30 pm on 4/09/02 fishing with minnows caught 35 crappie mostly on the small size,also cuught small to med size bass on purple 8" worms lake is stained lake level is up from last week. good luck Tim putman April 7, 2002 - Wilson - Well the weather this weekend has kept most of us off the water but Friday afternoons fishing was pretty good. Fishing the river end of Wilson with live shad we managed to put 6 in the boat and missed at least that many more. I have been fishing in 20 to 3 feet of water. The fish have been scattered and you just have to look until you find them. Good Luck Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide April 7, 2002 - Water Shed east of Burden - Went fishing Friday April 5, 15 Miles east of Burden, at a water shed. caught 16 Bass biggest 5.12 lbs. lost 3 other that were also big. Used Baby -1 Crawfish 1/4 oz. lure. Fish were full of eggs. John April 5, 2002 - Middle Creek State
Fishing -I was on it 3/29 & 3/30. The water temp
was about 47F. I saw fish on my depthfinder between 16' &
27' always on drop offs, but couldn't get them to bite. Crappie
were supposedly being taken on each side of the damn in the transitional
areas turning from rock to dirt. I caught none. The wind was
ferocious. No one I talked with had caught anything. I
would try E of the boat ramp for bass. Mark Morash 4800
Rainbow Blvd Ste 102 April 4, 2002 - Pomona - Just a little fishing report. The water temp is ranging from 42 to about 50 depending on where you are on the lake. We have been catching crappie at Pomona in 18 to 20 feet of water with the fish suspended about 12 to 15 feet. Mostly on green and char. tube jigs. Good Fishing Mike Hawkins April 4, 2002 - Kaw River below Bowersock - I am not very computer literate, but in bowersock mill with old men that taught me well. Swede Johnsson , yes 2sss, Elvis Burger , Tom Burns. My dad took me out of school many a day to help dress fish when we still fished commercially fish almost 99.9 catch & release channel cats still biting consistent on shad guts, flatheads starting to move out of they are starting to move up out of the wintering holes to feed when the weather is right. Blue suckers are starting to spawn sturgeon are just moving up shallow and starting to bite consistent. I'll try to keep you updated, but work cuts my fishing time very short [4 or 5 nights] a week. Working on the typing skills. I'll try to update 2 & 3 times a week. below Bowersock northeast K. S Kaw river. Thanks for the reply last time 4/3/02 good fishing all. Take a trash bag lets leave it better than when we get there. thank you for your support. April 3, 2002 - Big Hill - White Bass in the 2 to 3lb. size are being on crank baits & small spinner baits at Big Hill Res.My son in law & I & two grand sons caught & released 32 white bass in the two to 3lb. class. EARL Huffman Parsons Ks. April 1, 2002 - Cheney - I fished the north end of the Cheney Dam on 3/30/02 from 4:00 - 8:30 AM. I caught one 3lb. 20" male on a suspending Smithwick Rouge. I also witnessed a terrible and depressing site. The KDWP biologists were trapping Walleyes for reproduction. I saw at least three traps where all the fish that had been caught had died. My guess is that the traps were not set properly. They were set to shallow for the high wind condition from the day before. I saw at least 25-30 fish dead in the traps. All of the fish were huge 18" plus, some as large as 5-6lbs. I hope I never witness this terrible mistake again. I wonder how often this happens on our Kansas waters? I know the biologists did not do this on purpose and it is ironic, that in trying to increase the Walleye population, they affected it negatively. I just wanted to bring attention to this so that it might be prevented in the future if possible. I as well as all Kansas anglers appreciate the great job that our state biologists are doing. Mitch B. Source: Kansas Anglers like you. Send us a report. |
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