Bluebasser86

Yeah, I've never seen anything like them either and I fish the same lake a lot. Like he said though, with what happened recently to a little girl that lived 30 minutes from this lake, most folks are a little concerned about what's in the water. http://kdvr.com/2014/07/11/9-year-old-girl-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-after-swimming-in-lake/

Well at least this way the guys that have stuff planned already can let me know and the guys that don't have anything planned can try to make it work. For any of the new guys on here that may feel like they're on the outside looking in or that they haven't been on here long enough to be welcome, this is for anyone who wants to attend, whether you have 1 post or 10,000. If you have any questions about how it all works just send me a PM and I'll be more than happy to answer any of your questions. That's fine if everyone wants to do that again. Maybe somewhere not so crowded this time?

These are the folks you need to ask. http://kdwpt.state.ks.us/KDWPT-Info/Contact-us

Easy now, I've got some drum honey holes on Perry that you could probably get a bite every cast all day long if drum was all you wanted to catch. How would the 11th and 12th of October look for everyone? The cabins at Perry are $45 a night that time of year and say they sleep up to 4 people each. $20 to sleep inside for the weekend wouldn't be bad at all. I just have to make sure my thunder buddy Chris is going to be there in case it storms

What I wouldn't give to go back and buy several 3700 boxes full of the old wiggle warts

They work great on the fall also, caught a lot of fish that take the bait before I ever start the retrieve. The last several I bought did not last very well though so I've stopped using them except in tournaments.

Like the others said, fish the edges and don't bother fishing in the mats.

I bet I could count on both hands the number of topwater fish I've caught this year, a majority of them were on a Zell Pop though.

One of my homemade black and blue bladed jigs was the only thing they'd eat for me Thursday night/Friday morning. For some reason I had a terrible time hooking up and keeping fish stuck, something I never have problems with this bait. Should have had a dozen or more over 3 pounds instead of the 2 I caught. Still caught another 20 or so small ones, better than nothing. Weather was almost perfect though, and we were the only boat on the lake

I've done the same, twice. Once with a brown trout and once with a bass just this past 4th of July. I'd much rather have it done quickly like that then have to know it's coming. Doesn't make it hurt any less though. I heard a story about a guy getting attached to a 50+ inch muskie by one of the oversized trebles on his muskie bait. The hooks went under the tendons in his wrist as the fish surged away while he was trying to get a grip on it's gill plate.

My parents have pictures of me in my diaper holding a fishing pole on a sand bar the week before I turned 1. It's all I've ever wanted to do and my fascination with the water and the creatures that live in it only gets stronger with time. I think I get a lot of my problem solving skills from my time on the water.

Same here, or just behind and above you eye. You can easily feel the skull with the tip of your knife so a quick push and they're done. The backside of a hatchet blade works really well also, especially for heavy skulled fish like catfish.

I night fish during the summer for the most part. Getting skunked doesn't happen at night during the summer time

Like others said, has to be baitfish around or you're probably wasting your time. A swimbait on a jighead would be my bait of choice but a flutter spoon for shallower fish or a jigging spoon for deeper fish are also good options.

Tablespoon of raw honey with about a teaspoon of cinnamon on top of it. Seems to work well for me and you can do it about every hour, cuts down on coughing too.

Tragic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0zfPsW6g8 Those were her favorite pants too

Super excited about this bait when I first saw the video about them. Was really hoping they'd meet my hopes and expectations, which were both pretty high. I jumped at the chance to pick one up from TW, even though it wasn't exactly the color or sink rate I wanted, the others were out of stock so I went with a dark trout color moderate sink. First thing that I was impressed with, the packaging. This poor bait did not come to a good part of the world for it to see tons of action. While we have fish big enough to eat the bait, they are few and far between. This means that it will spend time waiting for the right conditions to be fished. Nothing worse than when that time comes and the bait is out of whack from the way it was stored and now it won't swim right. Not going to be a problem with this bait. The rigid plastic package is going to keep it in perfect condition until the time is right. It's also clearly labeled what bait it is, so I can't forget which model I'm grabbing (because there will be more ) Second thing, wow this is a beautiful bait! It has a great look and feel, especially for a <$20 bait. It looks like it would swim away if you dropped it in the water. My first concern was how well the bait will hold up. I've been very disappointed with the last several soft baits I've bought. Spending $10-$25 on a soft bait and having it get destroyed after a fish or two sucks, especially when they weren't even the fish I'm after (dinks). After holding and feeling this bait, I'm confident it's going to withstand the abuse. While it isn't hard or stiff, it feels like it will be very durable. The joints look great too, not too thin but not too thick, and plenty of room for the tail to move and snake through the water. The hook keeper slot is great to prolong the life of the bait as well. The line through portion was easy to feed the line through and the hook fits snug just in front of where the line comes through on the top of the bait. Now for the important part, the on the water trial. Did I mention we don't have many fish that will eat a bait this size? Put on top of that most all the bait that the fish are eating right now are smaller because everything has finished spawning not long ago. Still I wanted to put the bait through it's paces. I was on a private lake in Linn County, KS that I had never fished before but we were catching good numbers of fish and I'd already caught one solid fish on another swimbait when my friend lost a monster so I decided to give it a shot. The water was pretty clear, probably 7-8 feet of visibility, with good populations of smallmouth and largemouth. We were sitting in 10-12 of water and I mainly was working the bait down the edges and fronts of docks, across points, and along the deeper edge of where I could no longer see bottom. I was surprised how easily the bait fished. At 3.5ozs, it's not a huge bait but not a light weight either. I was fishing it on a custom made 7' 10" H/F rod with a 300E Curado and 25lb MCcoy copolymer. It cut through the water with ease and the action was terrific. It looked so realistic that every cast I made I was sure I was going to get bit or have a follow. I fished it pretty hard for about 2 hours and never moved a fish unfortunately. I tried a variety of retrieves, all of which the bait performed flawlessly with. It bumped bottom great and with the top hook it never even began to hang up. Final grade-A+! I have no doubt this bait is going to produce big fish for me and keep coming back for more! Excited to see some of the new colors and for the price I can try a few different colors

Peter and I night fished Jacomo last night. Never lost or missed so many fish in my life Lost count of how many heavy fish I hooked and lost or rod about got jerked out of my hand and I didn't even touch them with the hook. I caught one solid fish that was 3.39 pounds and most of the rest were small. Wind was a little stronger than I would have liked but overall it was a very nice night on the lake.I caught one really healthy looking channel cat on a shakyhead too that was probably 3 pounds.

Mound City is good and so is Pleasanton.

Melvern, Perry, Osage, Lone Star, Richmond, Cedar Valley, Shawnee State Lake, all good lakes for bass.

What are you wanting to catch? Largemouth? Smallmouth? wallleye?

They get those trebles wedged around their beaks and tangled in their teeth a lot it seems. Plus the extra hook points occasionally find a spot soft enough to penetrate, usually by the end of their beaks it seems. We have monster longnose gar in a lot of our lakes. The big females fight really hard, jumping and even tailwalking at times. I've caught some big ones. They're really fun to snag when they're spawning. Personally I'd rather bowfish for them though Several years ago my buddy shot a 48.5 incher and I shot a 52" incher the same night. Lots of people eat them around here and say they're one of the best fish there is to eat.

Sorry, lost track of this thread. You can get all kinds of water and cover because there's so many different ponds and lakes to fish. If I was going down there to fish a tournament, I'd buy my trout permit and probably never leave the trout pit. It's not easy fishing, but it has the biggest fish of any of them and better average size than most. Most of the pits down close to it are really good too. There's a very shallow one by West Mineral that has some pigs, but it's about 3-5' deep through most of it and even shallower in a lot of it, not easy to navigate a lot of the time. For the more stained ones I've caught more big fish on buzzbaits and spinnerbaits than anything else. For the clear ones a wacky rig, shakyhead, jig, popper or walking topwater, and a swimbait. I like black for the buzzbait, chartreuse and white for the spinnerbait. With the wacky rig and shakyheads watermelons and green pumpkins are usually best. Best jig has been Texas Craw, kind of a rusty camo color, baitfish colors for the topwaters and swimbaits.

The smallest size President is actually listed at $49 a lot of places, so it fits the description perfectly