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December 20, 2002 - About the closing of Rusty's Outdoor Sports - As I am sure you know, Rusty's Outdoor Sports is going out of business. As much as you guys probably will not loose any sleep over one of the competitors going under, it would be nice to share the fact that they are having a huge sale on top quality fishing/hunting/sporting equipment. CJ Editor's note: Thanks for the note about Rusty's. I'm sure everyone knows about them closing their stores. We've known and competed with them for years. We were competing with them during the days they were at Davids and then during the long run of Rusty's. Unlike the suggestion that we (Zeiner's Angler Supply) won't lose much sleep over it, their closing hits close to home. It shows how difficult it is to make it in the outdoors business. They have very capable management, but found it necessary to close. Even though we were competitors, we sent people to them when we didn't have something and they did the same when they didn't have an item and thought we might have. Wichita is losing a home grown asset. It is a shame. We wish all of them the best. We encourage everyone to check out what they have left on their closeout. Jim Zeiner December 18, 2002 - West Mineral
area strip pit -
December 15, 2002 - Toronto -I
talked to an angler, Jim I believe, that said he caught 49 crappie
Saturday. The three of us (Chris Steve & Chris, with some
help from Jim) brought home about 20 on Sunday. In addition to
ours, Francis had close to a dozen with several of them in the
jumbo size, while another angler had 29 mostly caught early that
day on minnows! Chris December 12, 2002 - Cheney - I
was in attendence at the wildlife and parks public meeting earlier
this week. The pearch problem is quite a problem. It sounds to
me what they plan on doing is stocking the lake with 8 inch wipers,
which should be big enough to take a 4 inch white pearch and
encrease the stocking of walleye fry. In addition, there will
probably be a 21 inch minimum length limit on wipers December 10, 2002 - Clinton - Yesterday,
my brother and I took advantage of the calm winds and mid-forties
temp. We got on the water around 9:30 Monday the 9th. Only a
few other boats on the lake. We started just north and west of
the " ISLAND" along the main channel. We fished the
tops of brush 20 ft. deep. We caught a few small crappie. Each
pile of brush gave up one or two small crappie. December 6, 2002 - Melvern - Dec. 1 Sunday. 10;00AM Fishing the Turkey point area. Crappie 22' of water just off the creek channel. Locate brush and you find crappie. Not all 10" but we boated 22 keepers in about 5 hours of fishing. Thank you Jeff Logan Facilities Supervisor jmlogan@opkansas.org 913-327-6984 December 5, 2002 - Fort Scott City
Lake - 12-3-02 - 10 A.M. - 3 P.M.
December 1, 2002 - Kingman County State Lake - Today, Sunday dec 1st, with being sunny and all felt like getting out to do some fishing. Of course I'm a bass fisherman at heart. I always read about winter doesn't stop fishing, just makes it a bit more difficult. So I headed out to Kingman county fishing lake. Fished from around one to five thirty, but had no luck. The day wasn't wasted though. I got to enjoy another day in the outdoors and I finally started to get some new fishing techniques down. Now I just need to get my hands on a fishing boat. I also had one pole for catfish, but had no luck with that either. Used stink bait for that. For bass I was trying mainly grubs and worms and other rubber items. Didn't try too much of deep diving items due to the shallowness and leftover lilypad stems and the other water grass that seems to keep on growing even in the cold. So no bites, but not a day wasted at all. Dominic Irwin November 25, 2002 - Wilson - NOVEMBER 22, 2002 WILSON LAKE. MAKE IT OUT TO WILSON AROUND 9:30AM. FISHED TILL 3PM. NICE MORNING LIGHT WINDS TILL AFTERNOON WHEN THE WIND CAME UP. DECIDED TO TAKE COVER BY HELL CREEK BOAT RAMP AND THE BLUFFS KEPT THE WIND DOWN A LITTLE. CAME UP WITH TWO 5 LB. STRIPERS, TWO BIG WHITES. DOWNRIGGING. THREW ALL BACK. REAL NICE TO GET AWAY FROM THE BIG CITY AND HEAD OUT TO THE SMOKEY HILLS. BEAUTIFUL COUNTY. MARK. November 24, 2002 - Fall River
- Most of the fish I caught today were in 12' to 14' on the Here's a picture of the nicer ones. I'll see you at the lake,
November 17, 2002 - Vic's Lake - Wichita - (Right) Friday evening about 5 PM this nice trout hit orange power bait Chris
November 9, 2002 - Wilson - Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide - The cold front that hit us last week has certainly scattered the stripers. Fishing has been on and off since then with the stripers being scattered and suspended lake wide! However there have been times when they have really turned on last Saturday evening at sunset was one of those times. After several hours of fishing with only a couple of bites the stripers started feeding on top, I caught them on bait, bucktails and planer boards fishing the dam area in 42 feet of water, it was fun while it lasted. Outdoorcentral has released the story from our fishing trip in Oct. it can be viewed at http://www.outdoorcentral.com/prostaff/jhord/seeinstripes.asp with a video soon to be released. Fish-On Gotta Go November 9, 2002 - LaCygne Power Plant Lake - Alan Jefferies and I with another guest went fishing on the river that feeds the reservoir and got a few crappie. The tempature of the water was 46 deg. but was awful windy, the big lake was white capped so we didn't venture out on it. had to work hard to get what we got. Carl Gregg
November 8, 2002 - Vic's Lake Wichita - Friday late afternoon produced some nice fish. I almost had two. The first one to hit my minnow broke my line in just a matter of seconds. I retied a new hook and within 30 min the second one was striping line. With Brad's help I got her landed. She started squirting eggs as soon as she was on the dock. The WHOPPER fish was caught before I got there (4:00 pm). Brad weighed him in at 4.8 lbs! Chris November 6, 2002 - Hillsdale - As of Nov.6th the fishing at hillsdale was very poor the water temp was 49deg. lots of fish in the locaters but none was biting. was using minnows.and jigs but to no avail. Carl Gregg
November 3, 2002 - Cheney - I
was trolling off the rock pile on cheney on oct. 25th. it was
cold overcast and in 3 hours i had a 22 inch walley a 4 pound
channel and 4 good size whites in the boat and headed home. Saturday
afternoon when the sun was out just one white. i haven't been
since but plan to go tues am. to cheney.
October 26, 2002 - El Dorado
- Fished 4-6pm along the dam where the bird were working.
We ended up with 9 October 22, 2002 - Fall River - Fished below the dam Monday from about 2:00 to dark. We got two channels (~5 lbs) and a flathead (~4 lbs) along with almost a dozen crappie. Just a couple of the crappie hit minnows, and all the rest of the fish were taken on curly tail jigs or crappie jigs. We used green, yellow, and white with the latter maybe being the best. Chris October 20, 2002 - Wilson - Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide - Despite the erratic winds and weather the last few days the stripers are on the feed bag, with the evening bite being the best. The last 2 days we have caught 33 stripers up to 5.5 lbs. with the larger fish just starting to feed, the largest I have seen caught this week was 10 lbs. We are fishing the Lucas park area with live shad in 42 feet of water, live perch have also been working good. The stripers are beginning to surface early and late but tough to approach. We did pull one 5 lb. striper surfacing with a 1 oz. bucktail. keep you eyes on the birds and they will let you know where the action is. The last 2 mornings I had the www.outdoorcentral.com <http://www.outdoorcentral.com> extreme team camera crew out, they took allot of pictures and video. We had a great time, caught a few fish on bait and bucktails. Jeff Hord and crew were a blast, thanks Jeff. I will let you know when the story is released. Good Luck
October 16, 2002 - Cheney - Fished Cheney Oct. 16, noon till dark. Very good day. Caught 44 whites and wipers trolling M & M to Wichita. Fish were in very shallow. Caught them mostly on white twist tail rubber jigs and rattletraps. Nothing big, one 3 pound wiper, several 1-2 pound wipers, and lots and lots of white bass, most were 1 to 1.5 pounds. Randy
October 11, 2002 - Cheney -Fished Oct 10 from 2:30 till dark. Landed about a dozen wipers. The four we kept ranged from 4.5 lbs to 5.5 lbs. We took them of the humps in about 18 to 20 feet using Mike's three way rig. At one time we had two fish on each of our poles! One of mine was just a white bass but it was still fun to see both lines moving as they came up to the surface. Chris October 8, 2002 - Cheney and Winfield
City Lake - fished cheney on the 7th. trolled most
of the day, without success, but toward evening loaded the boat,
put on waders, and waded the points on the east side. last hour
of daylight caught 28 nice white bass and small wipers and a
22 inch walleye. tossing 3 inch white sassy shads and 3 inch
white twister tail jigs. caught most of these fish under the
gulls in only knee deep water! October 6, 2002 - Wilson - Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide - Fall fishing is finally here with lots of stripers being caught in the dam to Lucas point area. Live shad, perch, and downrigging have been producing numbers of stripers up to 6 lbs. with the larger fish still hard to come by. The water temp. is in the mid 60's and the stripers are schooling and hungry. A few of the schools I have marked in the last few days have been huge, 40 feet thick and under the boat for several minutes. When they are schooled like this almost any method should catch you a few stripers. Good Luck October 4, 2002 - Coffey County State Lake - F.Y.I.- Roxie @ Coffey county shack called this morning informing me that as of today, Sept 30 2002 the lake is closed to all boats traffic. This came down from her boss, Kenny Roney, undersheriff of Coffey county...This is of course due to a low water situation at the ramp due to lack of rain...Pray for cooler temps and some much needed moisture..Best to you, Clyde September 29, 2002 - Pamona -
I fished Pamona , Reservoir Thursday 9\26\02. I tossed chrome
colored Rattle Trap's into the rocky shore line. The wind was
blowing into the shore. I fished main lake points. I caught a
dozen Wiper. The smallest was about 14 inches long. Most of the
wiper were about 16 to 17 inches. September 25, 2002 - Reply to the
St. Marys Question - I've fished the Jeffrey Energy
Center lakes quite a bit. There are two lakes. A smaller (older)
one that is used for the power plant and a larger (newer) one
that is an auxiliary lake. The fishing in the smaller lake is
pretty slow. There is a chance to catch a trophy walleye, (an
11 pounder was caught last month), but it is rare. There are
some wiper and catfish also. The larger lake has better numbers
of fish. Quite a few walleye but they're all pretty small. Not
a lot of fish over the 15" length limit. When this lake
was first opened to fishing in the early 90's you could go there
and catch 100 walleye in a day easy. All cigars. I think it was
so overpopulated that the fish were stunted and never grew to
any size. There are also some largemouth and catfish. The white
bass fishing can be pretty good. The best fishing in this lake
is around the island and by the dam. There's also some good breaks
just east of the dam. September 25, 2002 - Cheney
- Fished the 21st and 22nd. The 21st my son and I trolled
the 3 way rig all over every point on the north side and only
caught 1 white bass. I was starting to doubt Mike's reports until
I was pulling my boat out and who do I see? MIKE! And he's heading
for the cleaning station. Well I cleaned up my September 21, 2002 - Cheney - This was the first day my son took time out from golf to go fishing. We arrived at the lake at 8:00 am and there was only one boat in my spot. On the first pass my dept finder lit up moments before both poles bent double. For the next two hours my son landed approximately 12 fish from four to nine pounds. Most of them were wipers but there were a couple of stripers mixed in. All of them bit on the white grub using Mike's three way system. The speed was accentual; most of the other boats were moving to slow, and as Mike has said if you aren't touching the bottom you're not catching fish. The best part of the trip was the ride home. My fifteen year old couldn't shut up about the fish that he caught or how his forearms hurt. MAC September 21, 2002 - Wilson - Jack Hoskinson Madd Jack Striper Guide - As fall approaches it seems the fishing fever has hit once again, myself included. Water temp. is nearing the 70 degree mark and it is time for the stripers to begin schooling in force feeding up for winter. The last week on the water has been producing a few stripers to 5 lbs. with the bigger fish hard to come by. Bait fish are in abundance and easy to locate but the stripers are much tougher to find. Normally by mid-Sept. the stripers are feeding and easy to find, this year has been different. It seems they are just a little slow to start this fall and should really turn-on in the very near future. Most of the stripers we are catching are in the Dam area fishing in 32 to 42 feet of water with live shad, with a few being caught by trolling with downriggers. Good Luck September 21, 2002 - Cheney
- Arrived at Cheney around 3pm, The weatherman said today
was supposed to be light southerly winds around 5mph. I always
call 838-2222 to listen for the barometer reading before I head
to the lake. He said South wind 4mph with a rising barometer!
Well in my book that is PERRRFFECCTTT!! And indeed when I arrived,
The lake was pretty doggone smooth! Went out to M&M caught
a few small Wipers, They just werent stacked up like usual, so
I decided to try Wichita Point, The Refuge, and on to the Western
side with NO SUCCESS. The time was about 5pm, so I decided M&M
fish should be stacking up by now, so headed back across the
lake. Well, at aproximately that time, the wind switched to the
NORTH, and started making some waves.( Doggone Weather guys!!!
They didnt say anything about North winds!!!) We still started
catching fish anyhow! The 3 way worked just fine once again.
I didnt catch the Huge fish like last Sunday, but still caught
several Wipers to 6 lbs. a 23" Walleye, and a 4 lb Channel
cat. North wind was cooling me off cause the waves would wash
over the boat and You know, when the air is only 73 degrees and
the water is a chilly 71, you get COLD! It was still a beautiful
day right SNAG? September 18, 2002 - Cheney - Three Way Rig Instructions Hi all, September 14, 2002 - Cheney - Fishing at Cheney last weekend and then on Thursday has been very slow. The front(s) that came thru on Friday changed that! We landed close to a dozen nice stripers & wipers. We released two small stripers that were in the 3 to 4 lb range. We kept three in the live well and was looking for the match to my 10 lb striper or 8 lb wiper, but they quit biting shortly after noon. We did get a supprise over on the west side close to the small boat ramps when a 11 lb channel got on our crank bait while trolling. Chris September 14, 2002 - Cheney - Just got back from Cheney Lake. It rained on me all morning and the fishing couldn't have been better. I spent the morning trolling while most of the boats jigged. I saw several of the small white perch being caught and kept. Somebody is in for some good eating. Most of what I caught was bigger fish. The wipers ran about 5 to 6 pounds. I kept one nice walleye, about 24 inches, for dinner. I think if I wouldn't have had other appointments I could have caught fish all day long. I wish some of the other fishermen would have a little more consideration for the other guy. Boats would sit back and watch where I caught my fish then they would motor in and sit on my spot so I couldn't make another pass. I saw this happen to two other guys that were on fish. There are plenty of fish so how about a little courtesy. September 9, 2002 - Kingman County State Lake -. fished there on sunday the 8th and caught several bass in the three pound range on spinnerbaits. also missed two large pike at the boat, probably in the 25-28 inch range. weed growth in the middle of the lake starting to die off, still pretty thick around the edges. pull all the fish from the weeds on the north end. bite pretty much stoped for me arounf 9:30am. September 5, 2002 - Cheney
-. Hi all, September 3, 2002 - Cheney
-. Also went to lake about 7 am only my third trip to cheney
ever but my father and I really want to catch some fish. We trolled
the tip of M&M, Wichita and went on west not sure where to
go and i hooked a double off of Mike E's 3 way device (THANKS
MIKE) both were about 2 # stripers. Water was a little rough
so we trolled over to the west side with no luck. Any tips for
us would be greatly appreciated we love to fish but are not having
the best of luck. September 2, 2002 - Cheney -. I got on the water about 7am and started trolling the West side. I got up to just South of sailboat cove and I hooked into what turned out to be my biggest Wiper yet. It was 22 inches and weighed 6 pounds. What a fight that was. Went down by the dam on the west side and did catch the first of my two walleye. I worked my way back up the west side and got another walleye and two more wipers. I got everything on Hot an Tots in anywhere from 11 to 15 feet. It seems like the water has cooled a little so maybe the fishing will start to pick up a little. These were the first two walleye I have caught in about 2 weeks. Randy Source: Kansas Anglers like you. Send us a report. |
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