Just curious if anyone has made it out to Liberal, MO to check this place out? Fishing buddies are considering this place in mid-Sept. Any feedback would be appreciated! Thanks.

http://www.anglersparadise.biz/

I have been considering this place for about 5 years now and I still haven't made it out there. Reading the website and their documentation it sounds like a great place, but when I read their fishing reports it doesn't seem to indicate that it is any better than any other lakes I fish so I end up going somewhere else. Also, in their reports I often see statements about fish breaking off and it makes me wonder why they lose so many fish. (Is it just a tactic to make you think there are huge fish there?) If you or your buddies try it out let me know how it goes.

I have been considering this place for about 5 years now and I still haven't made it out there. Reading the website and their documentation it sounds like a great place, but when I read their fishing reports it doesn't seem to indicate that it is any better than any other lakes I fish so I end up going somewhere else. Also, in their reports I often see statements about fish breaking off and it makes me wonder why they lose so many fish. (Is it just a tactic to make you think there are huge fish there?) If you or your buddies try it out let me know how it goes.

Will do Senile1. We're headed there in a couple weeks. I saw those fishing reports and thought the same as you. I'm only going to fish two 1/2 days (pm/am) since this is my first time out there. From what the owner told us, there's more quality in the big lake and more quantity in their smaller pond. I just hope I don't have to soak a worm for 6 hrs.

Revo- did you go to Liberal? Report?

We just returned from Angler's Paradise last night. I'll start off by saying, the temperatures were 87/53 Monday and 95/66 Tuesday. We fished Wednesday 71/51 and Thursday 62/44. It rained for most of the morning Wednesday and we had wind from the East and ENE the entire time. After talking to Don, the owner, who is an extremely nice guy, he stocks his strip pit with Flordia-strain bass every year which explains the post-cold front lock-jaw we experienced 90% of the time. I guess most Florida-strain vendors don't sell north of I-40 (Memphis). Surface water temps dropped from 81 on Tuesday to 70 on Thursday.

Wednesday afternoon, the six of us averaged probably 1 bass every 2 hours. It was tough. Bass weren't chasing much of anything. We had 3 boats on the water and the most success came from Senkos and Ika's. I finished up the day with 8 and my biggest was 14.5". One guy had only caught 1 bass for the whole afternoon. There wasn't an evening bite at all to my disappointment. I had a boat deck full of casting gear and predominately used the one spinning rig I brought next to a pile of dead Senkos. The biggest bass for the day was 19" on a black/red Cavitron. I was shocked when I found that out until I heard the rest of the story...the Cavitron got stuck in an overhanging tree, he got it loose, it fell in the water and sank (as he was reeling the slack), the bass hit it on the way down. Crazy!

The temperature was 44 on Thursday morning. Our party of 6 was reduced to 4 overnight and we were just going to fish until noon. I was optimistic because we hadn't fished this water yet in the early morning (even though it was freakin' cold). Thankfully, it was pretty calm on the water. I threw LC Sammy and caught a 17" and 21" (picture) in the first hour. Shortly after that, the wind picked up and the bite shut off. I flipped a jig in brush piles and sqeaked a 13" bass before noon. Two of us ended with 3, and the other 2 ended with 0.

Angler's Paradise is a nice place. The cabins were clean and right near the docks. AP allows you to bring your own boat or you can rent their bass boat. If I were to fish there tomorrow in these conditions, I'd bring my drop-shot gear, aspirin, and use electronics. We were graphing fish 25-35 ft down and they weren't budging.