Ifind thanks for the report thats what I was looking for for this Sunday! This cold snap should push them into the outlet! What did you use to troll with?

Thanks,

Chris

A rapala deep diver in shad colors. Also a mepps style black and silver spinner. Anything that remotely looks like a shad will work.

Fished Lacygne Saturday, WT at outlet 58, 12 bass biggest 16 inches. To much bank traffic to get over to that side.

Is the water still really low at La Cygne or has the rain they've been getting helped any?

Still down, the tires at the boat ramp are 50% out of the water and the other ramp across from the outlet is closed, there are spots in the middle of the lake that are only 3-4 feet deep, I am guessing its down 5 to8 feet.

Hit Hillsdale Sunday for a few hours, caught Whites and Crappie in 20+ feet of water using a spoon! WT 41

Got to La Cygne today with a buddy. Rain sucked late in the day but wasn't terrible most of the day and little wind made it more bearable. Swimbaits ruled the day. Minus 2 on jerks, 1 on a crank, and 2 on a shakeyhead they all ate swimbaits. Most of them were on 4" Berkley or Storm swimbaits. My first fish was a porker, 18 1/4" long and 4lbs 6oz.

Couple other healthy swimbait bass.

Jerkbait bass.

Most awesome one of the day. We were at the outlet, skipping swimbaits under the cables when a fish started popping shad right off the rock point. Too shallow for the swimbait I was throwing so I ran a spinnerbait by and a big fish blasted it but didn't hook up. Grabbed my swimbait rod with a 6" Spro BBZ 1, fired it and held my rod high so it would run right under the top. Got to the same spot and got plowed. Didn't weigh her because she got the back hook deep and I wanted to get her back in the water as soon as possible but was probably in the 4.5-5lb range.

Badass!

Looks like hangin out in the rain all day was well worth it. It was probably 50 out there though and I see alot more 20's & 30's in the forecast. I think you timed it just right before it gets stupid cold.

That post will hold me over for another month at least. Thanks.

Man you got one over at the Dam?? Nice day out there!!! Last year was one of my best days on that Lake the week before Christmas! Week days are the trick, so you can fish the entire discharge area without Manny and the crew casting surf rods with 2 oz sinkers at you!!

Good Job Blue!

Retro-some of my best days at La Cygne have been when it's stupid cold out and I really had no buisness being out there. Those days are nice because there isn't much competition. There was only 2 other boats on the lake, 1 guy fishing for crappie at the dam and 2 guys catfishing at the outlet.

Chris-I did get one off the dam, suprised that was the only one I got. I've caught a couple of my biggest bass from La Cygne off the dam. You're right about weekdays. I've been on nice weekend days and it's a zoo out there and the bite is usually terrible. There was a few bankfishermen and I did see one of them catch about a 5 pounder that got tossed in a bucket. I did see a first out there though, I watched a bank fishermen catch 2 short bass and 1 short wiper and throw them back Normally if it gets caught, it's going home regardless of size or species.

So the bass ARE alive in La Cygne .... and doing quite well by the looks of it.

Any reports Lacygne or Wolf Creek?? With the nice temps going some where this weekend to wet a line. If my normal partner has to work, any one want to fill in? Shoot me a PM!

Haven't been or heard anything since last time I went but I bet it will be crazy at either lake this weekend. If the wind allowed I'd probably opt for Wolf Creek just because it would be easier to get away from the crowd more since it is a much bigger lake, but the chance at a big bass goes way down also. I'll be at La Cygne Monday so if you go out there I'd appreciate a report if you get a chance I'll report in after kanasbassfisher08 and I get back.

Saw this ad and thought it might be a helluva deal for the right basser:

http://lawrence.craigslist.org/boa/2785282525.html

Good luck on the weekend sportin...

_{Retro I bought new from Cabels in March took the payment over the GD's with carbs and ethanol}

_{Blue as always my friend I will post but it wont be until Monday, PM me your cell# and I can text you when I get home Saturday afternoon.}

Anyone get out lately? I actually was able to take the Kayak out to Osawatomie lake Friday. The fishing sucked but the water temps were up from last time,

It was 37* in December and was 40* in January.

me and blue basser86 went out to lake lacygne and had about an average day i would call it. we had a hard time at first for bass. guides were freezing up pretty bad until about 9am. so we took a break from bass fishing and snaged several buffalo. we noticed a guy down past the fast water outlet yanking whites left and right pretty much keeping everything but anyways we drifted down throwing rattletraps catching quite a few little ones biggest 8 inches but they were crushing it. fun for a minute but head to a bluff wall where i was throwing a hud deluxe most of the way had one good boil be hind my bait but bluebasser was doing pretty good on the point with a new luckE strike jerkbait and a shaky head serveral dinks but made it nice to catch some green fish! but i didnt catch a green fish all day till the end on a lucky craft jerkbait pointer. but did manage to catch smaller whipper on a chrome and black back rattletrap. not a whole lot of boats but more then i would like mostly crappie fisherman but was lucky enough that one of the stacks started to run about 10 or 11am. dont know if it had anything to do with it but thats when we went to the bluff and started catching green fish aka LMs. i guess bluebasser did have a LM come off that morning throw a storm swimbait at the outlet over the cable into the fast water but not much to look at lol. our biggest of the day was caught by blue throwing a craw colored crankbait maybe 4lbs. we attemted to fish the dam but it was dead all we caught was one white that came off the boat. water temps at the outlet was 56 or 57 and was 50 to 51 at the dam and 57 closest to the main lake and 50 closer to the river. thats about the best report i can give u and im sure bluebasser will add a pic or two of the day and update his cont total of the year.

Well like KB08 said we did alright at La Cygne but not great. We hadn't caught anything except some big buffalo at the outlet and even those were tough to find. The outlet had just started to blow a small puff of smoke when we started catching the whites. They were tiny and we fished most of the big flat to the north of the outlet trying to find some bigger whites or wipers. Most of the bass we caught came off of the point that is the most southern part of the rock wall on the north end by the river. Caught several off that point, mostly one jerkbaits but did get a fish on a pitboss also. My biggest on a jerkbait was probably around 2.5.

We fished all the way down that wall, the river mouth because there were birds diving, and the island. Only part we caught fish off of was the deeper stretch of bank closest to the outlet. Caught the biggest of the day on our second pass down that stretch on a red craw H2O sqarebill.

Caught a couple off of the rock bank in between the cabins and the main ramp. Also caught one off of the dam on a jerkbait. I hooked something at the outlet on the dam on a shakeyhead but it pulled me down into some brush and came off, not sure if it was a bass or not. Pretty slow day but it was nice weather once it warmed up and way better than being at home doing nothing!

Anyone get out lately? I actually was able to take the Kayak out to Osawatomie lake Friday. The fishing sucked but the water temps were up from last time,

It was 37* in December and was 40* in January.

A Kayak in 40 deg water? That takes guts! Nice.

I dont know if you guys have seen this website yet but let me tell you it is BAD ***. Just close out the pop-up box and you can play with the map for free. Any body of water with a red square around it has a good contour map that you get with the membership. Even on the freebie version i got it to overlay a topo map over Perry, which is very cool, but the pay version is just awesome.

http://mapper.angling-technologies.com/map/

Me and Wachati (Peter) fished La Cygne yesterday. Everything we had both seen said windy in the morning and then calming down by about 8am. We got there at about 7:15 and it was windy so we hit the point right across the cove from the ramp. I caught a small one on a jerkbait and then a little bigger one on a Little John. Right when I got mine in the boat Peter hooked a fish on a swimbait, got it to the boat, and it popped off just when it got to the surface. It was probably 5-6 pounds. For the next several hours we fished anywhere we could stay out of the wind. I missed a couple on a shakeyhead and caught a couple tiny white bass on crankbaits. By 1 we still hadn't caught another fish so I netted some shad and we went back to the outlet. Even with live shad I think we only caught 5 or 6 more bass. The biggest of the day was just shy of 4 pounds.

2012 bass count-81

Nice!

81 Bass already by Jan 17th? Now that is gettin' after it!

So the million dollar question for me is: How is this warm winter going to affect how fast they get moving again in springtime?

Gotta think it would help them grow more than normal too with all these warm winter afternoons to feed...

I can only remember one really warm winter like this in my lifetime. It seems like a cold March and April made up for some 60's and 70's in January and February, hopefully that doesn't happen this year. The cold nights has finally made the fishing feel more like winter fishing. I've been out 3 more times and hadn't caught a thing until yesterday, 1 small crappie and 1 small bass both on jerkbaits.

2012 bass count-82

^{Fished Lacygne on Sunday 16 fish total only one over 3 pounds, swim bait and spinner bait, this April like weather has them messed up IMO. Better than a skunk! I checked Hillsdale and the surface temp is still at 34 as of last Friday!}

Nice fish, they sure are porkers down there eh? Heck, catching 16 is fun I don't care where you go, especially in January.

My ol lady's dad has been farming his whole life and he thinks it will likely be a cold spring too. I'm guessing that means they'll be really hard to pattern but hopefully the silver lining is that if you figure it out it could be a bonanza, even on the busier lakes.

I've been eyeballing Mozingo lake in NW MO on this new software I have. It looks pretty impressive actually. Anyone hear anything about it?