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October 9, 2008 - Lake Shawnee Trout Season - Perhaps other anglers are as confused as I was about Lake Shawnee trout season. In the past Lake Shawnee ran their own trout program. They are not listed on the KDWP trout stocking schedule, however according to the Shawnee County Parks & Rec. who I called, the State is supplying the trout. Lake Shawnee trout season does not coincide with the State season, but starts Saturday, November 1st at 6:00am. You will need a State license and trout stamp rather than a Lake Shawnee trout permit. Here is the Lake Shawnee website for more info.:

http://www.co.shawnee.ks.us/parksandrec/lakeMarina.shtm

August 14, 2008 - Question about sound - Boat Question -- I'm not sure how stupid of a question this might be but I am wondering others opinions. When I am able to make it to the lake I take my dads boat, which was currently in the shop. When they ran the boat to make sure that everything was working good they told my dad that they noticed the motor was the loudest motor that they had ever heard. But it has always been that way, you almost have to yell to talk to each other on the boat. Here is my question, do any of you think that this will make a difference on catching fish? Do you think that the noise from the motor will scare fish off or atleast startle them and keep them from feeding?

April 17, 2008 - Largemouth Bass Should Be Stocked in Clinton and Perry Lakes - On Oct. 1 and 2, 2005, Topeka received nearly 4 inches of rain and as much as 12 inches fell on areas north of the city in Jackson and Jefferson counties. Mother Nature's deluge washed an untold number largemouth bass into Perry Lake. Consequently, in the spring of 2006, bass angler began catching scores of 1 12 - to six-pound bass, and that great bass fishing lasted until May of 2007. Even during the winter of 2006-07, when the surface temperature at Perry registered 38 degrees, some bass anglers caught as many as 34 good-sized largemouth during a four-hour outing.

From this experience and similar ones in decades past, it is obvious that a stocking program similar to the volume that Mother Nature rendered in October of 2005 could be replicated by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Park. Read complete story

April 13, 2008 - Boaters needed for youth event

We are looking for boaters for our 3rd Annual C.A.S.T. event. Please forward on to others you think might be interested in helping. This year we are opening up to McConnell children who have a parent or both serving abroad. We are needing 50 boats and need your help to make the event a great success again this year. All major media will be invited again this year. As it has always been, the boaters/fisherman make this event a success.

I sincerely hope you can help a child "Catch a Special Thrill"!!

Tom Spencer
C.A.S.T. Event Director
tom@castforkids.org

April 13, 2008 - Club forming - A small group of Kansas anglers,who are members of North American Fishing Club,are trying to find enough interest to start a local state chapter. If you could help us by putting something on your site we would appreciate it. By joining NAFC members get a monthly magazine but more importantly you get access to the website and online forums. You can hook up with anglers from accross the nation. New members can join for a risk free trial at fishingclub.com Once registered they should log on to the kansas forum and let us know they are there.

Thanks
Kevin Rush

April 11, 2008 - Question on lake in Leavenworth - Many, Many thanks to Dean B. regarding the re-naming of the lake in Leavenworth ­ Heims Lake - now Stella Maris

Randall in Topeka

April 10, 2008 - Answer to Question on lake in Leavenworth - This is to answer Randall of Topeka's March 23
question about Heims Lake in Leavenworth.

I found a reference to a Heims Lake in Leavenworth. It was in a UFO report of all things. Said the lake was now called Lake Stella Maris. I found a Lake Stellamaris (one word) near the intersection of Shawnee Rd & 193rd Street in Leavenworth, KS. Best of luck.

Dean B.

April 2, 2008 - Cheney Poacher - Heard a "great" story today about a guy who caught a stringer full of walleye the other day at Cheney and kept all of them. Amazing people have the balls to break the law like that and brag about it. Might as well go shoot 10 big bucks and tell everybody at the bar. On the brighter side, great crappie

Lee.

March 23, 2008 - Question on lake in Leavenworth -As a youth I fished a few times with my father and his best friend at a private lake in Leavenworth Kansas. I recall it being called Heims, Heinz or Heimes Lake but can't remember for sure. I've tried to find info on the net by searching the names or 'private lakes' in Leavenworth and Kansas but can't find any info. Anyone know of such a Lake or remember the name? Maybe it's been purchased and re-named? It has been 40 years ago. Any info would be appreciated ­ thought I might try to find it and go fish it. Thanks!

Best regards,

Randall in Topeka

March 4, 2008 - Answer to question about anchors - In answer to the anchor question, I use the DIGGER ANCHOR. It is by far the best most reliable anchor I have ever used. Cabelas sells them, as well as most sporting goods stores. they range from $49 to $89, and work in most bottom scenerios.
Mike E.

March 2, 2008 - Question about anchors - Just bought a 14 foot aluminum, flat bottomed jon boat with 2.5 Mercury motor along with Minn Kota transom and bow mounted trolling motors. Question -- what should we consider for anchors and positioning of the anchors We will fish Lake Shawnee in Topeka (400 plus acres) primarily. Have some experience with mushroom style weights and have not been impressed. Feedback would be appreciated. Thank you!

All the BEST!
Randall and Carolyn
Topeka, KS

February 28, 2007 - Wichita Show - Submitted by Mark Kirkpatrick - What a great time at the Kansas Sports, Boat and Travel Show, I loved talking with each individual on the great craftsman ship of a personal rod. We answered a lot of questions on how Neal crafts the right rod for you, and the benefits of a custom rod. Of course price is always the subject, but if you buy a great quality rod off the rack, it will cost you the same amount, and won't have the life time guarantee or the feel that you might expect. See with a crafted rod you pick the type of handle, blank manufacture, and what type of guides you put on it. Neal has a set of Zirconium guides that I swear are indestructible, we demonstrate this with a file, run the file over inside of the eye, and there isn't a nick on it.

I would like to thank all those that stopped by Classic Destiny Custom Rod Booth, Zeiners Booth, and asked questions on Snack Daddy lures, Vicious Fishing line.

August 25, 2007 - Info request on watersheds - I'm always looking for new places to try that are not too far away. One site that was a mapping site started showing tons of watershed dams. Many would be Flint hills watershed dam number this and that. I have seen reports of people fishing on them, but I can't find any info. Are these dams just spots on private property? I would love to have a few small places to fish that are not too much over an hour to get to. Any information would be great.

Dominic

June 10, 2007 - Marion Comment - Mon. and tue. April 30 and may 1. Fished at Marion res. Monday the wipers were really biting along the dam in the morning. Caught about 15 or 20 on brown jigs. Size was not great, about 2-3 pounds, but very fun to catch. Also caught 13 white bass. They were all males of about 1 lb. each. These were a lot closer to the bank than the wipers. Tuesday was much slower. Caught a few whites,9, and had to work much harder for them. I did catch 5 crappie, about 9 to 10 inches long. On a more disappointing note, I saw on fellow leaving with a stringer full of wipers on Monday, and 3 short walleyes that had been cleaned and dumped in the water at the cottonwood point boat ramp. Unfortunately I think both of these senerios are pretty common at this lake. Just my opinion.

Gary

May 19, 2007 - Where have the green worms gone? - Used to have 1/2 dozen places along the Republican River to dig green worms.
Now it seems that they have "disappeared" from their "normal" haunts as have been hard pressed to find even a 1/2 dozen of them after digging in multiple places along the river. Any suggestions as where they have "moved" or has the drought had an adverse effect upon them?
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walt

May 10, 2007 - It's getting expensive - Thought I would add this to the site. There's been a decrease in some permits to all state parks in Kansas this season. All the hype that's going to bring out more folks, fisherman to the parks/lakes. You won't find anyone more than me that hopes this will work. If you you put this issue to a calculator. Always keep in mind gas now at $3.10 a gal. Compare gas prices even three years ago. What it takes to pull the trailers, (boats, campers, jet skies). The distance to travel to and from. It's just does not add up to any, any savings. I live 28 miles from Cheney Lake . Each daily trip cost me $35 with the boat. I used to go to beautiful Wilson Lake three times a year. Just loved to travel there and fish for a day with the boat. I don't anymore due to the cost of fuel. Even my kids have begged me to take them to Wilson Lake . Fuel cost has taken a huge hit on this issue. I've cut down on trips to the lake around 30% from years past. Mainly cause of cost. There's a point due to cost I've had to cut down. That means spending less time away from the state parks.

April 14, 2007 - More on Milford - The walleye on the dam is just getting over. Most are done spawning by now.  The cold front set the water temp back 10 degrees from a few weeks ago. It did change the fishing!  The spawn will be effected by the drop.  It all depends on the weather over the next few weeks on the spawn time, probably won't have any spawning going on for the next few weeks except for shad. Whitebass will be next and that all depends on the weather.  The cold rains over the past few days will keep the temp down.  Starting tonight (Sat) there will be some rain water coming in Milford from upstream probably at 40 degrees. It going to take some warm days and nights to get it going again.

RKH

April 13, 2007 - Cheney Walleye? - Anyone having any luck at Cheney after this cold weather?????

April 13, 2007 - More on Milford Question - At Milford: Are the Walley hitting on the dam right now? Or has that come and gone? If they are, or are getting ready to, does that happen at night like the White Bass or is that an all day kind of thing? And finally...what is the lure/bait of choice when they are hitting on the dam?

I'm sure things were moving along smothly as far as good fishing goes...untill this ugly weather came in!! Thoughts on this? Does it shut whatever spawning action that was happening down? Thanks...pstein

April 13, 2007 - Answer to Milford Question - Every year is different like all Lakes. Water temp will vary due to rain fall and temperatures. My records show that over the past few years Milford's water temp will start Sept between 75 - 80 and end the month 70 - 75. Daytime temp 80 - 90, nighttime low's 50 - 60. No one knows about the wind. Calm midnight to noon, wind will blow most afternoon's. Whitebass, wipers and blue cat are hot in Sept. Lots of bait fish everywhere, all fish all feeding before winter. Look for bait fish and birds eating shad. Sept is one of the best months for fishing Milford. My choice would be Sept 12 - 25. RKH

April 12, 2007 - Milford Question - I have been trying to find out the average lake temperature for the month of september. please help. We are planning a week long fishing trip on Milford this September, and water temperature will determine what type of fishing we do as well as the gear we will need to bring along. Does the wind ALWAYS blow on Milford?

April 6, 2007 - Yates Center Reservoirs I just wanted to let people know that at BOTH Yates center reservoirs you can now be checked for licenses by some city employees. We got checked last Sunday and I contacted wildlife and parks who then contacte4d the city of Yates center police. I was told that there are a few people who have been deputized to check licenses by the city. On another note caught some nice crappie and one bass. Pretty productive day. Thanks

CLAYTON

March 14, 2007 - Question on Clark Fish-n-Ranch of Kingman - Can anyone tell me if Clark Fish-n-Ranch of Kingman is still in operation? They once offered fee fishing for catfish and bass in "shady spring-fed lakes and ponds". They were 5 1/2 miles west of Kingman on US 54. The number I had for them is no longer in service (620-532-2013). I was hoping to take my daughters there this spring/summer. Thanks.

Dean B.
Wichita, KS

March 9, 2007 - El Dorado Thief - Not that I like posing such info, and I should blame myself more than anything or anyone. Lastnight my other and I thought we would try fishing off the east end of the dam at El dorado. We parked on east end atop the dam, hit about 7:15 or so. The fishing action was non existent, never got a hit. The two guys that left as we walked down said, "Good Luck" Another couple was fishing, they didn't have any luck either. I had taken 5 poles. 2 for my brother, and 2 for me, and a spare in case one messed up, and fishing with my brother means that has a highly possibility! Hahaha I left one in the bed on my truck. It was not my most expensive rod and reel, but it was a good one. The reel was my dad's, and it was one I had hoped to keep. Well, as luck would turn out, someone helped themselves to it. Usually people who I been around who fish, have good morals, ethics, and values. Not always the case. It is mainly my fault for trusting people, and leaving it in the bed of my truck. I hope the guy/guys that took it, read this and are proud of themselves! If you are one of the two that helped yourself to my rod and reel, I hope someday the favor is returned to you. What a couple low life's, and a disgrace to honorable fishermen in Kansas. There was two trucks there when I pulled up. And the couple stayed when we left. By the way, I have your tag number too! And I am calling the authorities.

Kerry

January 11, 2007 - Bowfishing Question - I SPEND A GREAT DEAL OF THE HOT SUMMER BOWFISHING. BUT I DON'T HEAR A LOT ABOUT CLUBS OR EVENTS. I LIVE IN IOLA KANSAS SO IF ANY BODY KNOWS OF ANYTHING PLEASE LET ME KNOW. IF MY EMAIL IS MESSED UP PLEASE CALL 1 620 365 0175 THANK YOU

 

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