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April 30, 2002 - El Dorado - Fished El Dorado Lake on 4/28.  Water temp. was 58F and the wind was 5-10 mph out of the N-NE.  Caught one 20" flat head in 16' of water on a break near a point using a jig and crawler.  Drift-fished the points and drop-offs from 6'-30' of water and had very little luck.

April 29, 2002 - Cheney -Fished from 2:30 to 4 PM between Heimerman and M&M points, trolling Shad Raps. Caught a small flathead, lost a wiper, and got a 19-inch wiper and 22-inch walleye, all right in the midst of the walleye tournament and jet ski traffic. See Photo > >

April 29, 2002 - Clinton - Just returned from Clinton and I would say the crappie catching had slowed down considerably. I took my cousin from Illinois to show how good the crappie fishing is this time of year in Kansas, but I had to eat my words. We only caught 2 small crappie after 8 hrs. on the water. We tried the shallows and 15-20 feet. Not even the trusty chartruese twister or skirt worked. Last week I did bring in 27 nice slabs from the shore in the marina cove. Today the cove didn't bring in one fish. After talking with several boaters they also agreed today was a very very slow day on the water at Clinton Lake. I just hope the spawn is not over at Clinton. Does anybody know if the crappie at Perry Lake have moved into the shallows?

April 29, 2002 - Pomona - went back to pomona sat. just after rain end with in half hour had five 14" crappie caught on minnows about two feet off the bank The day kept getting windier and the fish slowed their bite Lake appeared to be back up to full pool and rising after all the rain was becoming very muddy. these fish were caught in the rock quarry area . Fished around vaser state park caught alot of small crappie one keeper if I would of reeled it in was letting my five yr old experience the thrill of catching fish and it got off No better time in life then fishing with your kids Heading to Clinton lake next sat. and sun will let you know what happened next mon. HAVE A GREAT DAY FISHING OR WORKING CHRIS SHRIVER LENEXA

April 27, 2002 - Lakewood Community Lake - Salina -Just stocked. Catching 1 1/2 to 3 pound channels on doughbaits and nightcrawlwers. caught my limit in 2 hours 4-22-2002.

April 23, 2002 - Cheney - Hey Jim. Clark and I fished Cheney today and caught a nice mess of super sized crappie. Found them real shallow and most are still males. Had some big 13 and 14 inchers. Walleye anglers everywhere prefishing before the tournament this coming Saturday. Water temp is 62 in the shallows and high 50's on the main lake. Thanks Mike Cook - Four Lake Guides

April 25, 2002 - Atchison State Lake - Just finished fishing Atchison State Lake, a little windy, but the largemouth's favorite bait was a Blue fox Vibrax.  This bait was catching anything from largemouth bass to large bluegill.  Give a try next time your out.  Most fish were caught close to land.  Good luck.

April 25, 2002 - Winfield City Lake - crappie have been hot at winfield past 2 weeks.  have limited nearly every day.  best is in mornings.  afternoon bite slowing down.  south shore, any of the first 5 coves, back along the rocks in 2-6 feet of water.  we've primarily been jigging with chartreuse tubes and yellow feather jigs, but minnows are working well too.  have caught a nice number of 1 1/2 pound sand
bass, a 2 pound wiper, and 2 nice flatheads while jigging.  walleye seems
slow but we've caught 5 from 20-22 inches along cowley four cove banks. randy hall

April 25, 2002 - Pomona & Melvern - 20th April  bank fishing at pomona with son got out at 11:00 am  caught 3 crappie right at 10" lenght one was  nice looking black male water still real low due to repairs of dam. Rain moved in around noon . Drove over to melvern fished off docks caught a lot of small crappie and a few keepers  saw quite a  few baskets half full of crappie all nice size if weather holds the slabs should be moving in to spawn . Pomona water was dirty. Melvern very clear . Next two weeks should be full blown spawn. Have a great day fishing   Chris Shriver avid fisherman

April 24, 2002 - El Dorado - This is my first time reporting. I have fished Eldorado Lake exclusively for three years now. This is by far the best year I have seen for crappie I have been the last seven days in a row and have caught an excellent number of fish. All have been taken in the 4 to 6 feet deep,and on minnows of color. Silver minnows have not worked well for me. Try North of the railroad tracks along the rocks and in the trees or the rock Quarry after dark. Love your site! James

April 24, 2002 - Wilson - Fished the Minooka area this afternoon and caught 13 stripers up to 18 lbs. The stripers hit real good prior to a wind shift then shut off. I was fishing a fast breaking point near the river channel with live shad fished between 14 and 28 feet Good Luck. Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide

April 23, 2002 - Marion, Fall River, El Dorado - Short report for you. The rain really mudded up the river and white bass fishing on the Cottonwood up at Marion. But the channel cat are up in the shallows and blasting the Junnies Dip Bait. Doing good for channels at Fall River and Kaw. The crappie bite at El Dorado continues to be good when the wind doesn't howl. Catching them in the river at Fall River too. Mike Cook - Four Lake Guides

April 20, 2002 - Wilson Short report for you. The rain really mudded up the river and white bass fishing on the Cottonwood up at Marion. But the channel cat are up in the shallows and blasting the Junnies Dip Bait. Doing good for channels at Fall
River and Kaw. The crappie bite at El Dorado continues to be good when the
wind doesn't howl. Catching them in the river at Fall River too. Mike Cook Four Lakes Guide

April 20, 2002 - Wilson - Fishing this week has been a little up and down with the winds being the big factor. But despite it we managed to catch quite a few 4 to 5 # stripers, a few walleye and smallmouth. The weather today was cold and rainy and it took awhile to get on the fish but when I did I caught 10 stripers up to 15 lbs. I have been fishing the upper end of Wilson from Minooka west on the shallow water breaks with live shad. I am still getting reports of the whites being in the river at least until this cold front hit. Sure hope the weather settles down this week, Good Luck. Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide

April 18, 2002 - Winfield City Lake - Thursday April 18 2002 Went to Winfield city lake the three of us limited out on crappie. Had to throw several nice ones back. ended up with 1 nice walleye also.

April 16, 2002 - Leavenworth SFL - We just got back from Leavenworth State Lake, we marked alot of fish on the fish finder about 3ft deep over 6-10 ft of water near the boat ramp. we caught several crappie on white jigs. weather was bad early in the day but the fish did'nt seem to mind

April 15, 2002 - Kingman SFL - The pressure at Kingman is increasing everyday.  Saturday, had at least 5 boats on it just in the 2 hours I was there.  Caught 3 largemouth 20+ inches on white roadrunners and small spinnerbaits.  Caught 2 pike on the same baits but they were less than 18" not than impresive for pike.  Fish appear to be coming out of the deepest water to cruise the shallows-reeds.  Trash is everyone's responsibility, good luck. Raydog

April 15, 2002 - Wilson - (4/11-15) The stripers are still on the bite in the west end of Wilson producing fish up to 11 lbs. and lots of 4 to 5 lb. stripers. The last 4 days I have caught them using a variety of methods with live shad as bait. The wind kept us from getting on the fish today but with the warmer weather I would expect the fish to start moving back up the lake. I have heard reports of white bass being caught in the smokey and the saline. A recent report from Webster was the crappie, cats and wipers are also on the prowl. Good Luck. Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide

April 15, 2002 - Cheney - We caught five nice white bass up to 16 inches long and this 22 inch walleye Saturday trolling No. 5 Fire Tiger Shad Raps near the river channel out from Graber's Cove on Cheney Reservoir. Not real fast action, but nice quality fish.

April 14, 2002 - Big Hill - I fished big Hill From about 4:30 until dark 30 on the 13 day of April.. I caught a few fish on jerk baits in the upper end of the lake fishing is still slow.. The water temp is 46 and the water is clear.. ( Everyone remember to practice CPR Catch Picture and release) Big hill is getting a lot of pressure and it is starting too show in the creel limits of nice size large mouth... remeber the bass are not only competing us, they are also competing the white bass now.

April 11, 2002 - Louisburg-Middle Creek - HAVE BEEN STEAM FISHING. DO NOT HAVE BOAT. HAVE BEEN TO LOUISBURG-MIDDLECREEK, FISHING ALONG THE STREAM. ANY POINTERS, OTHER STREAMS/RIVERS THAT ARE GOOD. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS, DON BASLER, DB10114837@AOL.COM

April 11, 2002 - Cheney - I am the fisheries biologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks at Cheney Reservoir.  I just noticed the report posted April 1 by Mitch B. about the dead walleye in our traps.  I wasn't too happy about it either.  The wind was forecast to be NE at 5 mph on the morning of 3/29, but instead it was NW at 30 mph.  The National Weather Service is not wrong on the wind direction and speed very often, but they were that day.  We killed about 30 or so walleye, and had a fair amount of damage to traps.
 
The traps were not set wrong.  I've been doing this 28 years, and you can't set a trap to stand in that kind of wind.  To answer your question, this does happen occasionally.  It has happened to me twice.  It is part of the cost of doing business.  The only ways to prevent it happening in the future is to find an iron-clad, 100% correct wind forecast or to quit taking eggs.  All of the walleye caught in the fantastic fishing we had last year were stocked fish, so not taking eggs is probably a bad idea.
 
By the way, we will stock 9.5 million walleye fry again this year at Cheney.  They come from operations similar to this.  I'm sorry we killed a few fish.  I can't promise it won't happen again.  I can promise I'm doing the best I can to manage a pretty good walleye fishery at Cheney.
 
Gordon Schneider

April 9, 2002 - Tuttle Creek - Fished the River Pond this weekend up at Tuttle.  Not much happening.  Friday evening went out.  Hooked a good one thought it was a nice walleye as i got it close to shore.  Crazy thing turned out to be a 3 lb. largemouth.  I didn't even figure there were much largemouth in the river pond but oh well it was a good battle, i let it go in hopes it might put some more black bass in the river pond but who knows.  Went out Saturday also to the river pond with no luck.  I don't know if i have missed the walleye spawn or not but havn't caught a walleye yet this year.  Anybody else fish Rocky Ford or Tuttle Lake or River Pond post some reports for us here in Manhattan.  Good Luck  Eric

April 9, 2002 - Ottawa State Lake - went out at 1:30 pm on 4/09/02 fishing with minnows caught 35 crappie mostly on the small size,also cuught small to med size bass on purple 8" worms lake is stained lake level is up from last week. good luck Tim putman

April 7, 2002 - Wilson - Well the weather this weekend has kept most of us off the water but Friday afternoons fishing was pretty good. Fishing the river end of Wilson with live shad we managed to put 6 in the boat and missed at least that many more. I have been fishing in 20 to 3 feet of water. The fish have been scattered and you just have to look until you find them. Good Luck Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide

April 7, 2002 - Water Shed east of Burden - Went fishing Friday April 5, 15 Miles east of Burden, at a water shed. caught 16 Bass biggest 5.12 lbs. lost 3 other that were also big. Used Baby -1 Crawfish 1/4 oz. lure. Fish were full of eggs. John

April 5, 2002 - Middle Creek State Fishing -I was on it 3/29 & 3/30. The water temp was about 47F. I saw fish on my depthfinder between 16' & 27' always on drop offs, but couldn't get them to bite. Crappie were supposedly being taken on each side of the damn in the transitional areas turning from rock to dirt. I caught none. The wind was ferocious.  No one I talked with had caught anything. I would try E of the boat ramp for bass. Mark Morash 4800 Rainbow Blvd Ste 102
Westwood KS 66205

April 4, 2002 - Pomona - Just a little fishing report. The water temp is ranging from 42 to about 50 depending on where you are on the lake. We have been catching crappie at Pomona in 18 to 20 feet of water with the fish suspended about 12 to 15 feet. Mostly on green and char. tube jigs. Good Fishing Mike Hawkins

April 4, 2002 - Kaw River below Bowersock - I am not very computer literate, but in bowersock mill with old men that taught me well. Swede Johnsson , yes 2sss, Elvis Burger , Tom Burns. My dad took me out of school many a day to help dress fish when we still fished commercially fish almost 99.9 catch & release channel cats still biting consistent on shad guts, flatheads starting to move out of they are starting to move up out of the wintering holes to feed when the weather is right. Blue suckers are starting to spawn sturgeon are just moving up shallow and starting to bite consistent. I'll try to keep you updated, but work cuts my fishing time very short [4 or 5 nights] a week. Working on the typing skills. I'll try to update 2 & 3 times a week. below Bowersock northeast K. S Kaw river. Thanks for the reply last time 4/3/02 good fishing all. Take a trash bag lets leave it better than when we get there. thank you for your support.

April 3, 2002 - Big Hill - White Bass in the 2 to 3lb. size are being on crank baits & small spinner baits at Big Hill Res.My son in law & I & two grand sons caught & released 32 white bass in the two to 3lb. class. EARL Huffman Parsons Ks.

April 1, 2002 - Cheney - I fished the north end of the Cheney Dam on 3/30/02 from 4:00 - 8:30 AM. I caught one 3lb. 20" male on a suspending Smithwick Rouge. I also witnessed a terrible and depressing site. The KDWP biologists were trapping Walleyes for reproduction. I saw at least three traps where all the fish that had been caught had died. My guess is that the traps were not set properly. They were set to shallow for the high wind condition from the day before. I saw at least 25-30 fish dead in the traps. All of the fish were huge 18" plus, some as large as 5-6lbs. I hope I never witness this terrible mistake again. I wonder how often this happens on our Kansas waters?

I know the biologists did not do this on purpose and it is ironic, that in trying to increase the Walleye population, they affected it negatively. I just wanted to bring attention to this so that it might be prevented in the future if possible. I as well as all Kansas anglers appreciate the great job that our state biologists are doing.

Mitch B.

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