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I think he's talking about the weeknighters. Aka the beginning of Coty's actual fishing season, lol

Would have to agree on that. I took my kit to Canada with me and it was game over.

Agreed.

Seconded. I have fished Melvern consistently enough that most days I don't even show up with it tied on, and that's solely for the fact that I just straight up did not want to continue catching fish on that one bait and one bait only. Expand your brown fish horizons and sacrifice quantity for quality. Use it when plans C-Y don't work.

Took a half day (barely) on Friday to go to Lone Star. Fished for an hour and a half, if that. Nothing worth talking about, sucked for me. Fished through 3 hours of rain on Saturday and 2 hours of snow on Sunday with trooper clients. We were rewarded with some really good fish though. It was a good weekend for guide trips. Is it April 5th yet? Can it just be April already in general? BBB...can't wait. Oh, and Charles caught a 5-11 at LS yesterday afternoon with Brian W. on a chart Wobbler with no trailer. Pretty jealous/butthurt about it but he was way overdue for a big fish. I have a guide trip at Melvern on Saturday so I'm sure I'll see someone out there.

Those are always the best ones.

I have a feeling the majority of us have gone Garmin already. I still have an Elite 7 HDI up front, but I already have a ducer.

I saw that too. Would be hilarious if it was. Wouldn't put it past the 'dotte.

Originally from Milwaukee, transplanted to KS in 2000. Used to vacation in Minocqua for 13 years every summer. Miss it and the Northwoods every day and can't wait to get back for good. Would give anything to fish Chequamegon or Sturgeon Bay for those horse brown fish. Curious though, any idea what lakes in that area Joe Bucher fishes during his Smallie segments?

They just cannot resist that Ivy with a Rage Menace.

Our trips wouldn't be the same without an In-Fisherman Critical Concepts intro though!

Fished Melvern yesterday with Keith. Rough and windy start, but had a few fish on a jerkbait right off the bat. Winds laid down around 1 and we were still catching fish. Caught probably 15 big whites too. Zero Drum. Slim profile baits were the ticket for us-110s, Raps, and DT6. Caught a few dragging a tube and the Ned for a little bit too. Water temps 48-49 all day and never broke 50. Creek arms seemed to make up our pattern, we didn't have any fish caught on my mainlake spots with the exception of a few on the dam right from the get go.

WELL OBVIOUSLY COTY

Looks like the Shadow Rap Shad did work.

There is a meeting tonight at 6pm at Mondo in Lenexa for anyone wanting to fish the EKB series this year. Keith and I will be fishing some together.

Well obviously I certainly know where they all live at Clinton, but I also do at Melvern as well. I just never target them there, well, because brown fish.

Oh, and for the non-Facebooks dudes, here's the article and photo gallery from last weekend's trip with the Wichita Eagle outdoor writer. Stoked! http://www.kansas.com/sports/outdoors/article65708837.html

Lol neither did I. Of course they did! My biggest one that I didn't get on camera was 2-9 and it was on da wobbla too. I hung my Ivy from a tree, and then Bond was nice enough to donate another one to me. I was just wanting a good jerkbait bite so bad and got it, so I had a hard time putting it down until I was fishing >4 FOW. Yeah I was certainly not prepared for that one.

I'll provide the crappie and walleye.

I think 7 of my past 10 dreams I can remember have been bed fishing dreams.

Right on man, let me know what ya think! I won't be able to get the print version until they send it my way.

Channeling my inner Ned with using different verbiage. Didn't work out so well

A few weeks ago I was contacted by the outdoor writer, Michael Pearce, for the Wichita Eagle newspaper who was wanting to do an article on Wolf Creek smallmouth/largemouth with me. After rescheduling once for wind restrictions, we were able to get out on Saturday. Literally could not have been a better day. First five minutes and Mike is hooked up on a big brown fish. That pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day, as we had a 5 fish bag of green and brown fish easily touching 18 lbs. We all consistently were catching fish (Mike Pearce is a close friend of Ned, so you can guess what he was throwing all day and loved it). DJ and I both had fish touching 4#, and he lost one at the boat that was probably pushing 5. And in true WC form, I probably had a 5 drum bag worth 35+ lbs, lol. We caught fish all the way up until 2pm when we left, still not a stitch of wind on the lake. The article will run in the Wichita Eagle next Sunday, print and online. I'll be sure to post the online article & photo gallery here. In the meantime, here are some my pics from the day. The good ones that Mike took will be included next week.