Bluebasser86

I've got a BPS hat I like to wear. Finally went with a brown hat that would hide the dirt a little better. Still going to have the sweat stains though I'm sure.

Just not many big fish in the lakes close to the area unfortunately. Olathe or Cedar lakes both have bigger fish but they are not easy to fish from a boat, let alone from the bank. SMP is terrible for bass fishing anymore. A small boat helps a lot but if you don't have one and you're looking for bigger fish I'd probably fish Olathe either from the dam or near the small cut by the East fishing dock with plastics. You can catch fish from the bank at Cedar but it is not a numbers lake at all. You can get on KDWP's website and check out the FISH atlas for a list of all public ponds in the JOCO/KC area.

There is none. I'm going to try to get out there Thursday so I can give a report to everyone.

We had nice weather for a few days and then Wednesday night we got 2 inches of cold rain and Thursday it never made it to 40 with 25mph winds, rain, and sleet. We still went fishing and caught over 50 with fish up to 5.22 pounds. Water was 47-50 degrees here and we were mainly catching them on spinnerbaits and cranks. Yesterday we caught a ton of fish out of a pond on spinnerbaits, swimbaits, and jigs. I think the fish are getting as impatient with the weather as we are.

One week to go until the 3rd Razor Clam Classic! Get your jerkbaits and spinnerbaits ready boys! I wouldn't even bother bringing any Ned rigs

Kanasbassfisher08 and I fished Osage State Lake in the beautiful weather Thursday. We had white caps all day, 38 degrees at the ramp, 39 when we left. It drizzled on us until it started sleeting. The fish didn't seem to mind though. Water temps ranged from 47.9-50.2 and was fairly stained but not muddy. Neither of us had ever fished the lake so we just went on what we normally fish on small lakes early in the year. Most of our fish were on a wart or spinnerbait with quite a few on jerkbaits, and a few on jigs, tubes, and shakyheads. Lots of little fish but a few bigger fish to keep it interesting. This lake would be a blast with topwater when the water warms up and I'm excited to go back when it gets warmer out. Lots of rocks, brushpiles, shoreline weeds, stumps, and fishing piers. We caught over 50 bass and 2 wipers. I had the biggest one of the day 30 minutes after we got there on a tube next to a brushpile and she popped it and pulled really hard before I grabbed her. She went 5.22 pounds and was really happy to get back into the water and out of the cold air

Is it on right meow?

Probably all of their profits I'd guess.

I've had tons of them, had one dug in last week. A good pair of tweezers as close to the skin as you can get and slow steady pressure has always gotten them out for me. Don't burn them or try anything to get them to release because it will often make them release more junk into your body and increase the chances of you getting something.

7' 10" H/XF BPS Extreme. I've been really impressed with how well it handles big baits and big fish so far and it isn't so heavy that it wears you out casting it all day.

Basically just stoking them along the bottom. Let them sink to the bottom and pump the rod all the way back. You'll lift it a couple feet off the bottom and forward and let it sink back to the bottom with just enough tension to feel the bite. They really hammer it when they hit them on the fall fishing like this and sometimes they'll eat it as soon as you pop it off the bottom because they think it's a baitfish making a break for it.

I caught one on a super spook Jr the first week of April at Beaver Lake in Arkansas with 51 degree water. I watched him come up behind it an eat it next to the boat.

3" Kalin's on a 1/8oz head in clear hologram color catches everything that swims. My wife fishes grubs a lot for that very reason. I like the YUM Muy Grande grub also. Yamamoto Smoke no flake on a 1/4oz darter is one of my favorite baits on Table Rock when fishing is tough.

Looks like maybe a pike had him and was trying to position him to swallow and it got away or maybe it gave up because the bass was too big? I caught a smallmouth a few weeks ago that had a line almost right down the middle of it's head and one side of it's face was black the other was brown, never seen anything like it.

X2 and fish it fast like a baitfish swimming for it's life.

We had one day last spring we put 256 fish in the boat between 3 of us, mostly smallmouth and white bass. Last year when I was using a clicker to keep track of how many fish I caught I topped the century mark a few times. Numbers are overrated though. Give me a 5 solid bites a day over 100 dinks any day.

I've thought about trying turkey hunting in the spring because I see them all over the place when I'm driving to the lake in the morning during the spring but I can't give up a nice morning I could be fishing to sit in the woods. Once archery deer season gets here though it usually gets my full attention.

I have and caught quite a few on minnows fishing brush in about 12' of water. The times I've been I did better towards the west end of the lake. You have to be able to find the brushpiles though.

This is more my understanding. We don't have either here but from what I've read snakehead seem to like extremely shallow water that often has low oxygen levels and cover too heavy for most bass to occupy. While I'll admit that snakehead sound like they would be a blast to catch, I have no desire to have them in our lakes.

Unless I'm on La Cygne or Hillsdale No zebra mussels in it so make sure you stop at a car wash and spray your boat and trailer off good if you hit it right after fishing Melvern. Flash is actually who clued me into the lake (same guy that told me about Wabaunsee) and he knows of a couple 7's coming out of this lake so there is some big ones in there. The size structure was exactly as he described, they are either little or big, not may in betweens out there in that 13-16 inch range. Our fish were either 8-12 inches or 17+ inches, not a bad problem to have really.

Chris and I fished Osage State Lake in the beautiful weather today. We had white caps all day, 38 degrees at the ramp, 39 when we left. It drizzled on us until it started sleeting. The fish didn't seem to mind though. Water temps ranged from 47.9-50.2 and was fairly stained but not muddy. Neither of us had ever fished the lake so we just went on what we normally fish on small lakes early in the year. Most of our fish were on a wart or spinnerbait with quite a few on jerkbaits, and a few on jigs, tubes, and shakyheads. Lots of little fish but a few bigger fish to keep it interesting. This lake would be a blast with topwater when the water warms up and I'm excited to go back when it gets warmer out. Lots of rocks, brushpiles, shoreline weeds, stumps, and fishing piers. We caught over 50 bass and 2 wipers. I had the biggest one of the day 30 minutes after we got there on a tube next to a brushpile and she popped it and pulled really hard before I grabbed her. She went 5.22 pounds and was really happy to get back into the water and out of the cold air

I'm thinking 6am or safe light? Full sunrise is 6:30 so should have enough light to go at 6. Probably go to 2pm unless anyone has a problem with those times?

If you want to bring some that's fine and if we have enough burgers and hotdogs that nobody wants them you can just save them for yourself or just bring chips. We don't have anyone bringing beans or plates yet so if you want to bring both that would be great.

$30 per team. It pays out for every 3 or 4 teams I think, which sucked for us because there was only enough boats to pay first place last night. There's a classic/fish off at the end of the year also if you qualify through apperances or points that's going to be somewhere else for a full day tournament.

Jon and I fished the first Wednesday nighter tonight. Only 5 boats showed up with the bad weather in the forecast but we barely got sprinkled on it was really a pretty nice evening. We caught a ton of fish on jigs and jerkbaits. It only ran from 6 to 8:30 so we tried to cover water slowly as fast as we could. Water was 49.8-49 everywhere we fished. We caught 3 keepers, all on jerkbaits, and I lost another for sure keeper right at the boat on a jerkbait that would have won it for us. I had a keeper walleye on a jerkbait too that I thought was a nice smallmouth. We ended up with 5.17 pounds and second place. The guys that won it only had 1 fish but it was a beautiful 6.12 pound largemouth. These tournaments are a lot of fun if any of you guys are interested in fishing them.