I made it to Lacygne from 9-12 today, when I got there the winds were pretty strong. It was about all I could stand to go 35mph! I had the trolling motor coming out of the water and waves crashing on the bow.

But you know me it wasn't long before I was hooked into one. Wrong species once again. :-/

After that I decided to fish a new area I'd marked on the bird the other day thinking "this looks good" it was a place that went from 10-20" with a couple nice ledges and shelfs.

I got this one that missed the big girl status by 1oz coming in at 4.15#

I also got this one that made big girl and then some!!! She was summertime skinny but I Hope I see her again real soon

Awesome fish man!

Awesome fish man!

I promise I'll get you out with me soon!

You just tell me when and I'm there! Lol

I just need to know what day and time works best for everyone and I will get the ball rolling with Raymond.

I could do next Thursday?

Are we talking about the same pic?

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By the way, once I left Lacygne today I hit Hillsdale and caught this one.

Ha either of those bass would have been my pb

Anyone catch the water temps for Coffee County today in the paper? 100+ at the discharge, mid 90s main lake. Woof.

See you guys in a few hours

Anyone catch the water temps for Coffee County today in the paper? 100+ at the discharge, mid 90s main lake. Woof.

See you guys in a few hours

Who the he// would be stupid enough to fish a power plant During a heat wave ???

I'm taking my 12yo niece out tomorrow morning, she loves to fish and keeps track of every fish she catches.  She hasn't been on my boat yet, so I'm pretty excited.  I know it's going to be tough, I'm thinking Olathe since it's close and small enough I can find some fish.  Sound like a good choice? 

Lone Star went really well last night. Only 4 boats showed up. Cody and I caught fish from the time we started to the time we got off the water. Jigs, baby brush hogs, buzzbaits, horny toads, squarebills, spinnerbait, and a bladed jig all caught fish. We had a couple highlights of the night. Best one was Cody's horny toad getting destroyed after it hit the open water past a big weed patch. It was obvious it was a good fish and it turned out to be the big fish of the night at 4.89 pounds.

For awhile we were catching fish about every cast with a baby brush hog. After it got dark I started fishing a black and blue bladed jig. Got disappointed by a channel cat before I got shocked by another fish, the first Lone Star smallmouth I've ever seen.

Conner and Brian took the honors tonight with 5 fish that weighed 9.29 and almost big bass with a 4.29 pound fish. Chris and Ryan had 7.80 and a 3.5 pound over.

Cody and I had 7.77 and Sean, who was very limited where he could fish due to a weak battery had 2 pounds. 

Had a great time last night guys. It was tough fighting the wind but the fish were on and I'm glad good fish were caught by all. Here is my 4.29# kicker that we landed at 8:50 in true tourney style right at the buzzer.

 

 

Had a great time last night guys. It was tough fighting the wind but the fish were on and I'm glad good fish were caught by all. Here is my 4.29# kicker that we landed at 8:50 in true tourney style right at the buzzer.

 

 

Lone Star was a bloodbath 

 

Made a living in the slot, that's for sure. I'll take four of these and a kicker any Thursday!

 

Lone Star went really well last night. Only 4 boats showed up. Cody and I caught fish from the time we started to the time we got off the water. Jigs, baby brush hogs, buzzbaits, horny toads, squarebills, spinnerbait, and a bladed jig all caught fish. We had a couple highlights of the night. Best one was Cody's horny toad getting destroyed after it hit the open water past a big weed patch. It was obvious it was a good fish and it turned out to be the big fish of the night at 4.89 pounds.

For awhile we were catching fish about every cast with a baby brush hog. After it got dark I started fishing a black and blue bladed jig. Got disappointed by a channel cat before I got shocked by another fish, the first Lone Star smallmouth I've ever seen.

Conner and Brian took the honors tonight with 5 fish that weighed 9.29 and almost big bass with a 4.29 pound fish. Chris and Ryan had 7.80 and a 3.5 pound over.

Cody and I had 7.77 and Sean, who was very limited where he could fish due to a weak battery had 2 pounds. 

It was more like 3 and a half boats with what I brought

Had an awesome time last night. If only we could have put 2 more that would measure in the boat! Definitely need to keep that lake in rotation!

It was more like 3 and a half boats with what I brought

 

Whatever gets you on the water my friend

Looks like a good evening of fishing fellas.

I was on table rock all last week. Fishing was pretty darn tough, especially considering I don't know how to drop shot and had no desire to learn.

 

The topwater bite was decent early and late, with fish coming on both a sexy dawg junior and popper. Best areas for topwater were round points with mixed ledge rock/smaller rock. A few bites came near docks, but those fish were more reluctant to take the bait all the way and merely swiped at it most of the time. 

 

When the topwater bite was gone, fishing a football jig on points seemed to be the ticket. 20-35 fow, with 22-25 being the sweet spot was where fish were taken. Points with trees and stumps in this water depth were most productive. 

 

Perhaps the most fun day of fishing was the first day. On the back end, there is an island, with a large ridge type structure that sits at 12-14 fow next to the island, with the island itself acting as a point of sorts, with a slow tapering drop to 20 fow. The channel swings right across this area, where 20 fow immediately meets 80+. I caught fish on this structure all week long, but the first day a large school of spots were using it to ambush shad. For about 2 hours it was non stop action. When fish would surface, they could be caught on a spook. When they went back down, I was catching them on a rootbeer colored deep diving bomber that ran around 16-18 feet down. Once the school moved off the structure, I could still catch the occasional spot or smallie by dragging a jig at the 20 foot mark, adjacent to the channel swing drop.

 

Two times, I thought I had absolute monsters but they were discovered to be different species. My first day, I was catching smallies on a point with the football jig when my line made a huge pop and the rod loaded up. For a good two minutes, I fought what I thought was a giant smallie which turned out to be a 10+ pound channel cat.

Towards the end of the trip, I was fishing an area with the ned rig after the sun had come up. I had been catching smallies on topwater there, and once again the rod loaded up and immediately started taking drag. For 5 minutes, I fought what ended up being a 20+ pound carp. 

 

Largemouth were few and far between on the trip, with only 3 ending up in the boat.

 

Here are some pics of some of the nicer fish I caught.

 

(All of the spots that were schooling looked like this one, or bigger. Like I said, it was fun)

This was the last fish of the trip, a nice smallie which absolutely demolished the sexy dawg. 

 

 

 

Table rock is a great bass lake I've seen a lot of huge ones by docks so skipping under them could have worked well I would think

My first day, I was catching smallies on a point with the football jig when my line made a huge pop and the rod loaded up. For a good two minutes, I fought what I thought was a giant smallie which turned out to be a 10+ pound channel cat.

 

I had this happen down there in an almost identical spot that you're describing. Dragging a jig off the drop near about 15' and felt that hard tick. Set the hook and thought for about ten seconds I had a big "meanie" or a monster spot. Started telling my wife who was reading on the back deck that I had something big, then the head shakes and the rolling started.....was still a fun fight.

Today

Dude... You dominate that lake!

With this weekend being Labor Day I'm guessing most guys are probably out for Saturday morning? If that's the case we could either do Thursday again or just skip this week?

With this weekend being Labor Day I'm guessing most guys are probably out for Saturday morning? If that's the case we could either do Thursday again or just skip this week?

I'm down for Thursday

I'm down for Thursday

X2!

I'll be there. Olathe?