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I was there saturday too. Didn't fish the outlet as I was trying to figure the bass out all day. Didn't figure them out, and only caught a couple dinks. La cygne has NOT been hot lately. Apparently you can catch them, if you find them according to rodney up at bps. However, I haven't been able to find them and he even put me on some of his spots. I keep going thinking one of these days it's going to be on and I'll land a monster. In my opinion, and like you have mentioned before Clayton, the plethora of baitfish isn't helping. They are SO thick at la cygne right now. Not seen anything like it on any lake. One of the schools of shad I came across was almost the size of a football field. Whenever that shad kill comes, I think the fishing will be on fire. Right now, I think they have too much forage to choose from. Just my opinion.

how in the world do you find this stuff? and, I've just never liked the way allison boats look. If I were buying a brand new rig, it'd probably be a legend.

With all your bizarre desires for speed, you should start looking at lanier custom boats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni0krsZhRRA

I don't want to talk any more about how bad my fall fishing has been this year in the KC area. I'm thinking of putting the boat up and hitting the ponds before they freeze over, haha!

are you talking about la cygne up in the creek? Oh my goodness, you don't even want to know how thick the shad are there

we were all lurkers at some point or another. Come on lurkers, come out and play!

Kansas City area fall fishing has NOT been on fire this fall. I'm not sure what's been going on. Fall is usually my most productive time of the year. Oh well.

Soo all those ads i showed you were of no use huh, haha. I'll keep an eye out for boats in the 6-8 if that's your more likely price range.

What If I told you I've already been looking for you. How far are you willing to drive to go look at one?

smaller walking baits (the ones with 2 trebles instead of 3). Every time I've thrown one in the morning out there, I caught fish. Speaking of catching fish, that is something I did not do on saturday. Ran into drew out at la cygne saturday. It was tougher than last week. There was a tourney I was thinking of fishing out there next week but with how I've done the past two weeks, I might save my money and just go to melvern haha.

monsters? give me a size guesstimate

Anybody get some good pictures of drum?

I think I could get a special work allowance for such a thing

You guys are killing me. Have fun tomorrow.

Really wish i could take off work

I was there too... It sucked.

I've perhaps found one spot that is a little off the beaten path that produced last time. Not a ton to show for it however, just a few dinks. Fishing the rip rap last week resulted in a zero.

Headed to la cygne tomorrow as well. Probably wont be out there till sometime after 11, because I've got some kind of early morning birthday brunch to goto. That's ok with me too, because it's gonna be very nippy in the morning. We'll have to see what the fish are doing this week. Changes every dang day...

No worries, it was about the same for us yesterday and they were pumping water. We didn't count but we might have had close to 20 fish between the two of us, with nothing big to show for it. I had one that would've probably gone well over 4 hop off of my squarebill. Rattlebaits and jointed swimbaits worked best. Slower presentations did not work AT ALL.

Wish i had that problem

I will be going to the mighty la cynge tomorrow in hopes of tangling with a big one. Clayton side they were biting pretty good in the river there for a while, so I might venture up farther than I've gone and see what happens. He also mentioned the water was below the willow so I don't think that I will be hitting any of that! However, that is one less variable and I like less variables. The wind is really blowing out of the south today, so I think that should push the baitfish (and bass) northward. I'd like to think the bass could be hanging out in some of the pockets on the main lake, ambushing baitfish that blow by but that's only a guess. I'll be sure to check and see if fish are staged in these areas since the wind is not really supposed to let up until tomorrow. So I guess that makes the gameplan fishing some moving baits around the mouths of pockets. If that pattern doesn't exist, I'm sure I'll hit my favorite rip rap areas on the main lake and if those options fail I'll be zooming up the river to see what I can find there. I'm looking for one over five. If there's any kind of good bite going on that shouldn't be too much to ask.

We have a thread dedicated to kansas city area reports, and also a thread dedicated to wyco lake. I decided it was time to put la cygne on the map for obvious reasons. There isn't a single lake that can make you smile bigger, only to curse the water the next day than la cygne. Let's face it, la cygne is an enigma, wrapped up in a question, bundled in a mystery that's unsolvable. So let's try and solve this dang thing- and catch some big fish while we're at it. My limited experience with this lake has shown me that there are two key ingredients to having a good day here- the power plant needs to be blowing smoke, and the weather needs to be a little nasty. That's not to say this will guarantee anything, nor is it to say you can't have a good day when these conditions aren't present. My most productive areas this season have been rip-rap areas, most specifically the southern most portion just east of the dam. Fish have always been there when i've fished it. Fishing up in the river is hit or miss. I'll note that i've not ventured north of the bridge- most of my fishing in the river happens on the channel swings just before the river turns into the main lake. I've had better luck in these areas when the plant isn't puffing smoke, so perhaps that's a valuable piece of information. These are my spots right now. I've not had a sniff on the dam, and fishing the rip rap south of the outlet has been very hit or miss depending on the day. I'll note that the water willow can be on at times. Keep in mind though, the fish have always been hanging out at very specific breaks in the willow. They pick what they perceive as the best spot, and camp there. If I don't fish these breaks (whether it be the willow coming to a point, pocket, etc.) then I don't get bit. If I don't throw the bait on top of their heads, I don't get bit. The fish that are there are generally larger though. What about baits? The only thing that has worked for me time and time again has been a jig, or a crankbait. I've not had anything sniff a diver deeper than 10 yet. Shallow crankbaits have worked well for me. Dark colors are a must. On occasion fish will hit a spook, but that is a rarity. These fish are highly pressured. I've found that if you're not throwing the right bait on the right day, you are going to suffer. And let's talk about bait fish too- what has perplexed me more than anything is the abundance of baitfish in this lake. Just because you've found them though (and it doesn't take long), doesn't guarantee any kind of success. Call me crazy, but I have done better on this lake when the giant bait balls are not to be found. Why? I definitely think fish are hanging around these baitballs, but because there is so much forage, they're simply stuff. Catching big fish? There is a secret to that, just as there is at any lake. I've not caught any giants yet. We all know they're in there. From what I can tell they hang out in areas that see little pressure (IE off shore structure) or, some of them are indeed in the heavily hit areas but are only in the prime locations. Remember what I said about specific sections in the willow? This applies to areas with rip rap, or the laydowns/stumps you'll find scattered in the lake/river. There are big fish in these spots, but they are keyed in to the spot within a spot. Once you locate one of these, remember it, fish it quietly and with precision- making multiple casts if need be. Do please chime in. Pictures are welcome. I know bluebasser86 (clayton) has his fair share

Thanks! She's a hell of a rig, to me at least. And it goes fast, which means of course that I have more time to get skunked. Perhaps I need to put a little money back each month for next year to show how important it is...She might bite then

I'm going to estimate that this bass is big.

Here were our two "nice ones"