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Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
Despite the oppressive heat of July hereabouts, the fishing
is often the
most fruitful and varied of the year. In fact, some anglers contend
that
July's consistently hot weather is one reason why the fishing
is so superb.
These anglers explain that anytime the weather is constant for
a long spell,
the fishing is usually good. Conversely, when the weather changes
radically
and frequently, as it often does in the fall and spring, the
fish frequently
become mulish and difficult to entice. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
Every June, a flotilla of anglers gathers almost daily on the
submerged
humps and mud flats of Clinton, Coffey County, Hillsdale, and
Melvern lakes.
They come to prey upon the walleye. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
Meteorologists reported that the past winter was the warmest
on record.
Yet for a long spell after the March equinox, spring's arrival
was
continually forestalled by winter's steadfastness. Then once
winter
reluctantly released its grasp, spring was upon us in a rush.
Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
In April, Morone chryspos is the mantra of a growing contingent
of
fishermen hereabouts. In fact, some of these anglers begin their
invocations
in March and continue it past the first week of May. The gist
of all these
quests are centered on the search for copious numbers of white
bass that are
on the verge of their yearly procreation antics. Morone chryspos,
of course,
is the scientific name of these anglers' quarry. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 15, 2002
Rogue is catching bass
March is Rogue season in these parts. That doesn't mean
that a bunch of scamps and scoundrels are on the loose.
But it does mean that a Smithwick Lures' Rogue is often wrecking
havoc with the largemouth and smallmouth bass that abide in several
of the lakes hereabouts. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 15, 2002
White bass harder to come by for Neosho River anglers
In April, Morone chryspos is the mantra of a growing
contingent of fishermen hereabouts. In fact, some of these anglers
begin their invocations in March and continue it past the first
week of May. The gist of this quest is centered on the
search for copious numbers of white bass that are on the verge
of their yearly procreation antics. Morone chryspos, of
course, is the scientific name of these anglers' quarry. Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - June 25, 2001
Weather holds anglers one fish away from goal
On a cold, blustery day in late May, Terry Bivins
of Lebo and a
friend tried their darndest to tangle with 50 largemouth and
smallmouth
bass. Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - June 25, 2001
Mother Nature hands angler and cameraman setback
On June 17 Steve Hoffman and Rich Eckholm, both of
Brainerd, Minn., and
In-Fisherman, arrived in Lawrence with designs of spending four
nights on
the Kansas River. Their focus centered on Hoffman catching several
big
flathead catfish on a rod and reel and Eckholm videotaping these
catches for
a segment of In-Fisherman's television program, as well as some
footage for
a new In-Fisherman how-to videotape. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - May 18, 2001
Tips for catching the increasingly popular smallmouth
During the past three years the virtues of the smallmouth
bass have
been extolled in this space with regularity. And since these
acrobatic
creatures have begun to abide with escalating numbers in several
waterways
along U.S. Highway 75, stretching from Holton to Yates Center,
they have
caught the fancy of an increasing number of anglers. Meanwhile
other anglers
recently have called, asking for a list of tackle that they need
for
pursuing this noble fish.
Here are the rods and reels that several local smallmouth
aficionados
use: Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - May 18, 2001
On an unseasonably warm and windy Tuesday in
early May, Bob Laskey of Lawrence cured all of his piscatorial
woes in one fell swoop.
Laskey is an avid bass fisherman who possesses an uncanny knack
for
catching a lot of fish and an occasional big one to boot. But
for the past
several years, his new vocation in the golfing business has crimped
his
abilities to get afloat. Once the weather turns balmy and the
golfing crowd
commences traipsing around the fairways, Laskey becomes virtually
chained to
the links. Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 30, 2001
Crappie fishing remains active in northeast Kansas
For decades anglers hereabouts touted the crappie
fishing at Pomona, Perry, Melvern and Clinton lakes as some of
the best in the world. And fishermen of all stripes eagerly awaited
the last days of April and the first weeks of May, when the crappie
began gamboling about the shallow shorelines in preparation for
their season of procreation. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 22, 2001
White Bass Woes
Before morel madness erupts and the turkey hunters are afield
across northeastern Kansas, a cadre of white bass anglers are
afloat, trying to decipher their quarry's whereabouts. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 22
Two anglers pursue smallmouth on Melvern
On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons this spring, when the
sky looked as dreamy and warm as an Albert Bierstadt painting
and the wind refrained from howling, a small coterie of fishermen
ventured to Melvern Lake to give chase to a smallmouth bass of
grand proportions. Read Complete
Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 8, 2001
Before Coffey County Lake was opened for public fishing on Oct.
1, 1996, the piscatorial grapevine was abuzz. Anglers from
all across the Midwest talked about how this 16-year-old waterway,
which had never been fished, would yield lots of fish and some
fish of grand proportions - possibly some state-records. Some
folks had illusions that the first outings at Coffey would be
similar to a trip to a virgin waterway in northern Canada, where
anglers regularly catch hefty fish at a hand-over-fist pace.
Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - Submitted March 27, 2001
When Cameron Roth of Berryton joined Kevin Davis of Lawrence
at Coffey County Lake at 2:00 p.m., the lake was teeming with
fishermen. Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - Submitted March 18, 2001
Just when spring seemed to be an implausible prospect, Pok-Chi
Lau of Lawrence got wind of one of its sure harbingers on the
chilly morning in early March. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - March 2, 2001
On Feb. 21, the Kansas River ran clear and at a snail's pace,
trickling past the mouth of Cedar Creek at 909 cubic feet
per second. But by Feb. 26, the river ran turbid and like a raging
bull, gushing past the bridge at DeSoto at 36,801 cfs. Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 26, 2001
On a recent sunny January morning, the bleak and bitterly cold
days of December had become a faded memory. Only a trace
of the heavy blanket of snow that covered these parts for nearly
a month could be spied. Read Complete
Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 19, 2001
Larry Blevins' winter crappie quest finally commenced on Feb.
19th and 20th at Clinton Lake. Except for a couple January
excursions to the tepid waters of La Cygne Lake, this tempestuous
winter kept Blevins cloistered in his Wynadotte County home for
more than two mouths. Consequently, his fishing and cabin fevers
raged. By late February, he had become so antsy that he was willing
to employ some radical methods to find Clinton's crappie, and
he knows a lot of tactics. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 19, 2001
On November 22, Mike Suitt of Lawrence retried at the age of
54 from a 32-year stint with the Douglas Sheriff. Immediately
upon his retirement, he planned to spend the late fall and winter
hunting ducks, deer and pheasants. And when he wasn't hunting,
he would be in chase of crappie. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 19, 2001
When John Paulson of Lawrence is afloat at Clinton Lake during
May and June, he is often in pursuit of the flathead catfish.
This is, however, such an uncommon endeavor that there is only
a tiny coterie of fishermen chasing this species across Clinton's
7,000 acres. Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - January 31, 2001
Kehde family is hooked on hooking wipers
The wiper is the most inscrutable game fish that inhabits
some of the waters hereabouts. And it is that unfathomable and
unpredictable nature that intrigues some anglers. Read
Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - January 23, 2001
Terry Bivins turns heads with rapid fire fish
catching
When Randy Moss of the Minnesota Vikings jumps sky
high and catches a football thrown by Daunte Culpepper, spectators
and fellow players shake their heads in amazement and say: "How
does he do that?"
In angling circles hereabouts, Terry Bivins of Lebo catches
fish with the same rapidity and adroitness as Moss catches footballs.
Consequentially, Bivins' piscatorial skills leave onlookers and
fellow anglers in awe and saying: "How does he do that?"
Read Complete Story
Submitted by Ned Kehde - January 23, 2001
Two northeastern Kansans are top illustrators
Most knowledgeable observers assert that Garold Sneegas
and Joe Tomelleri are the world's finest illustrators of freshwater
fishes. But these discriminating observers are always amazed
to learn that both illustrators call northeastern Kansas home.
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Submitted by Ned Kehde -
Anglers persist to catch fish through ice
By the time the bone-breaking cold weather moderated
on Jan. 3, the ice at many spots across Clinton Lake measured
10 to 14 inches thick. For 25 days, temperatures around these
parts came in well below normal, and some thermometers registered
readings as low as 15 degrees. Read
Complete Story
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