A quick video from Bourbon County Lake, nothing over 2 pounds but the numbers more than made up for it.  The warming trend really got the bass fired up.  The lake is down almost 10' with the winter draw down, we had to push the boat off the trailer to launch.

 

 

Only had a few hours yesterday on La Cygne in the johnboat with a trolling motor only, but still did pretty good considering how limited I was in area and time.

 

A few teams busted a huge bag at LaCygne  last Sat. Big fish was over 7lbs. I had a single. Worked for it too. But, that was the 3rd time I had fished the lake in 8 years.

 

Still a lot of good fishing out there right now.

Fished La Cygne for a few hours Monday and Tuesday, still from a johnboat since Jayhawk seems to be taking their time getting to my boat  Monday was much better than Tuesday. Caught a fat one that went right at 4 from a laydown the first 10 minutes of getting there. 

I lost a big one on a Shine Glide, then caught a bunch of smaller fish on a shakyhead and 1 on a spinnerbait. 

Tuesday was very slow. I've been launching from the shallow ramp across from the outlet and yesterday I caught one of a spinnerbait right next to the tires before I took out, so I made a cast from the bank before I launched and caught one again. That was the last bass I caught for about the next 2 hours. I finally caught a dink on a shakyhead and then caught a few more when I realized they wanted it dragged instead of shaking. Caught another one about 3 out of a laydown on a beaver, a white bass on a jerkbait and one on a trap, then one more on the spinnerbait off the tires before I left. Probably about a dozen fish total Tuesday. Water along the rock wall went from 62 Monday, to 57 Tuesday, apparently that will make the bite tough 

Anyone have any recent info or advice on La Cygne? Heading out there this week. 

Anyone know if there is still open water for a kayak to get into on the Missouri side? I just got some new gear and tackle for Christmas and I want to wet a line. Hoping that Watkins Mill hasn't frozen over yet. If it has, is there an area in La Cynge worth trying out in my Hobie kayak?

1 hour ago, SuperVehicle001 said:

Anyone know if there is still open water for a kayak to get into on the Missouri side? I just got some new gear and tackle for Christmas and I want to wet a line. Hoping that Watkins Mill hasn't frozen over yet. If it has, is there an area in La Cynge worth trying out in my Hobie kayak?

You can fish the rock wall west of the outlet and catch fish at times, just make sure it's a light wind forecast and don't go on weekends, especially if the weather is nice.

1 hour ago, SuperVehicle001 said:

Anyone know if there is still open water for a kayak to get into on the Missouri side? I just got some new gear and tackle for Christmas and I want to wet a line. Hoping that Watkins Mill hasn't frozen over yet. If it has, is there an area in La Cynge worth trying out in my Hobie kayak?

You can fish the rock wall west of the outlet and catch fish at times, just make sure it's a light wind forecast and don't go on weekends, especially if the weather is nice.

On 12/25/2017 at 10:31 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

You can fish the rock wall west of the outlet and catch fish at times, just make sure it's a light wind forecast and don't go on weekends, especially if the weather is nice.

You can fish the rock wall west of the outlet and catch fish at times, just make sure it's a light wind forecast and don't go on weekends, especially if the weather is nice.

Unfortunately I don't have a choice. My first outing is going to be this Saturday. A friend has a boat and we are going to fish it.

Any bodies of water around here still have open water or are any iced over enough to fish? The small lake near my office is iced over pretty good.

4 minutes ago, SuperVehicle001 said:

Unfortunately I don't have a choice. My first outing is going to be this Saturday. A friend has a boat and we are going to fish it.

Any bodies of water around here still have open water or are any iced over enough to fish? The small lake near my office is iced over pretty good.

All iced up. Even Wolf is iced in. Lots of ice on La Cygne too. We fished it yesterday and did really good.

30 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

All iced up. Even Wolf is iced in. Lots of ice on La Cygne too. We fished it yesterday and did really good.

Can you at least launch a boat at La Cygne?

6 minutes ago, SuperVehicle001 said:

Can you at least launch a boat at La Cygne?

We got my boat on it. The river is locked up. The back of the ramp cove was locked up and so was half the actual ramp.

12 hours ago, SuperVehicle001 said:

Can you at least launch a boat at La Cygne?

Like I said, we did good there Tuesday.

I have to make it out to La Cygne sometime, it and Wolf Creek are on my list for this winter if I get done with my boat project in time 

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Like I said, we did good there Tuesday.

What were they biting on Clayton?  Looks like one heck of a start to 2018!!!

29 minutes ago, kylek said:

What were they biting on Clayton?  Looks like one heck of a start to 2018!!!

Shakyheads was about all we could fish. Moving baits iced up too fast to even fish.

We went to wolf today since we figured La Cygne would be a zoo after Blue posted those giants   The lake is still way down, 2 feet deep from the ramp out to where the old no wake buoy was before it was blown away last summer.  Fishing was decent, jerk baits were the best producing lure.

Was it hard to launch at wolf being low like that?

1 hour ago, BassinR83 said:

Was it hard to launch at wolf being low like that?

I had to back my truck in a long ways.

This is my first time waiting for ice to melt. How many days of 50ish weather until I can launch a kayak on lakes like Watkins Mill and Lake Lenexa? I've not been out to either yet to check.

On 1/8/2018 at 11:53 AM, SuperVehicle001 said:

This is my first time waiting for ice to melt. How many days of 50ish weather until I can launch a kayak on lakes like Watkins Mill and Lake Lenexa? I've not been out to either yet to check.

It’s going to be a while, especially with another shot of cold weather. Ice was 8” in some areas around town. That’ll take more than a week or so to clear up.

On 1/8/2018 at 11:53 AM, SuperVehicle001 said:

This is my first time waiting for ice to melt. How many days of 50ish weather until I can launch a kayak on lakes like Watkins Mill and Lake Lenexa? I've not been out to either yet to check.

I've heard from 5 to 10 inches of ice on the local lakes. You'll need probably 2 weeks of warm weather 

La Cygne was good again Monday/Tuesday. Had a short trip Monday that only produced 2 fish, but there were 5.92 and 3.88 pounds. Tuesday was a better numbers day, with several in the 3lb range, and one over 5.

 

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

La Cygne was good again Monday/Tuesday. Had a short trip Monday that only produced 2 fish, but there were 5.92 and 3.88 pounds. Tuesday was a better numbers day, with several in the 3lb range, and one over 5.

Taking my kayak to La Cygne this Friday and Monday. Not sure about Saturday/Sunday. Might be too much wind. Was supposed to go last weekend but the friend of a friend with the boat flaked out on us.

I had some time to kill before work today so I went to Academy in Topeka to have a look around and I noticed that a bunch of rods were on sale, I saw abu vendettas, duckett ghosts, ethos, tourney pros, and I think the shimano clarus too. I just figured I’d let everyone know in case anyone was looking