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Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
Despite the oppressive heat of July hereabouts, the fishing is often the
most fruitful and varied of the year. In fact, some anglers contend that
July's consistently hot weather is one reason why the fishing is so superb.
These anglers explain that anytime the weather is constant for a long spell,
the fishing is usually good. Conversely, when the weather changes radically
and frequently, as it often does in the fall and spring, the fish frequently
become mulish and difficult to entice. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
Every June, a flotilla of anglers gathers almost daily on the submerged
humps and mud flats of Clinton, Coffey County, Hillsdale, and Melvern lakes.
They come to prey upon the walleye. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
Meteorologists reported that the past winter was the warmest on record.
Yet for a long spell after the March equinox, spring's arrival was
continually forestalled by winter's steadfastness. Then once winter
reluctantly released its grasp, spring was upon us in a rush. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - July 29, 2002
In April, Morone chryspos is the mantra of a growing contingent of
fishermen hereabouts. In fact, some of these anglers begin their invocations
in March and continue it past the first week of May. The gist of all these
quests are centered on the search for copious numbers of white bass that are
on the verge of their yearly procreation antics. Morone chryspos, of course,
is the scientific name of these anglers' quarry. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 15, 2002
Rogue is catching bass

March is Rogue season in these parts.  That doesn't mean that a bunch of scamps and scoundrels are on the loose.  But it does mean that a Smithwick Lures' Rogue is often wrecking havoc with the largemouth and smallmouth bass that abide in several of the lakes hereabouts. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 15, 2002
White bass harder to come by for Neosho River anglers
In April, Morone chryspos is the mantra of a growing contingent of fishermen hereabouts. In fact, some of these anglers begin their invocations in March and continue it past the first week of May. The gist of this  quest is centered on the search for copious numbers of white bass that are on the verge of their yearly procreation antics. Morone chryspos, of course, is the scientific name of these anglers' quarry. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - June 25, 2001
Weather holds anglers one fish away from goal
On a cold, blustery day in late May, Terry Bivins of Lebo and a
friend tried their darndest to tangle with 50 largemouth and smallmouth
bass. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - June 25, 2001
Mother Nature hands angler and cameraman setback
On June 17 Steve Hoffman and Rich Eckholm, both of Brainerd, Minn., and
In-Fisherman, arrived in Lawrence with designs of spending four nights on
the Kansas River. Their focus centered on Hoffman catching several big
flathead catfish on a rod and reel and Eckholm videotaping these catches for
a segment of In-Fisherman's television program, as well as some footage for
a new In-Fisherman how-to videotape. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - May 18, 2001
Tips for catching the increasingly popular smallmouth
During the past three years the virtues of the smallmouth bass have
been extolled in this space with regularity. And since these acrobatic
creatures have begun to abide with escalating numbers in several waterways
along U.S. Highway 75, stretching from Holton to Yates Center, they have
caught the fancy of an increasing number of anglers. Meanwhile other anglers
recently have called, asking for a list of tackle that they need for
pursuing this noble fish.

Here are the rods and reels that several local smallmouth aficionados
use: Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - May 18, 2001
On an unseasonably warm and windy Tuesday in early May, Bob Laskey of Lawrence cured all of his piscatorial woes in one fell swoop.

Laskey is an avid bass fisherman who possesses an uncanny knack for
catching a lot of fish and an occasional big one to boot. But for the past
several years, his new vocation in the golfing business has crimped his
abilities to get afloat. Once the weather turns balmy and the golfing crowd
commences traipsing around the fairways, Laskey becomes virtually chained to
the links. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 30, 2001
Crappie fishing remains active in northeast Kansas
For decades anglers hereabouts touted the crappie fishing at Pomona, Perry, Melvern and Clinton lakes as some of the best in the world. And fishermen of all stripes eagerly awaited the last days of April and the first weeks of May, when the crappie began gamboling about the shallow shorelines in preparation for their season of procreation. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 22, 2001
White Bass Woes

Before morel madness erupts and the turkey hunters are afield across northeastern Kansas, a cadre of white bass anglers are afloat, trying to decipher their quarry's whereabouts. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 22
Two anglers pursue smallmouth on Melvern
On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons this spring, when the sky looked as dreamy and warm as an Albert Bierstadt painting and the wind refrained from howling, a small coterie of fishermen ventured to Melvern Lake to give chase to a smallmouth bass of grand proportions. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - April 8, 2001
Before Coffey County Lake was opened for public fishing on Oct. 1, 1996, the piscatorial grapevine was abuzz.
Anglers from all across the Midwest talked about how this 16-year-old waterway, which had never been fished, would yield lots of fish and some fish of grand proportions - possibly some state-records. Some folks had illusions that the first outings at Coffey would be similar to a trip to a virgin waterway in northern Canada, where anglers regularly catch hefty fish at a hand-over-fist pace. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - Submitted March 27, 2001
When Cameron Roth of Berryton joined Kevin Davis of Lawrence
at Coffey County Lake at 2:00 p.m., the lake was teeming with fishermen. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - Submitted March 18, 2001
Just when spring seemed to be an implausible prospect,
Pok-Chi Lau of Lawrence got wind of one of its sure harbingers on the chilly morning in early March. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - March 2, 2001
On Feb. 21, the Kansas River ran clear and at a snail's pace,
trickling past the mouth of Cedar Creek at 909 cubic feet per second. But by Feb. 26, the river ran turbid and like a raging bull, gushing past the bridge at DeSoto at 36,801 cfs. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 26, 2001
On a recent sunny January morning, the bleak and bitterly cold days of December had become a faded memory.
Only a trace of the heavy blanket of snow that covered these parts for nearly a month could be spied. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 19, 2001
Larry Blevins' winter crappie quest finally commenced on Feb. 19th and 20th at Clinton Lake.
Except for a couple January excursions to the tepid waters of La Cygne Lake, this tempestuous winter kept Blevins cloistered in his Wynadotte County home for more than two mouths. Consequently, his fishing and cabin fevers raged. By late February, he had become so antsy that he was willing to employ some radical methods to find Clinton's crappie, and he knows a lot of tactics. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 19, 2001
On November 22, Mike Suitt of Lawrence retried at the age of 54
from a 32-year stint with the Douglas Sheriff. Immediately upon his retirement, he planned to spend the late fall and winter hunting ducks, deer and pheasants. And when he wasn't hunting, he would be in chase of crappie. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - February 19, 2001
When John Paulson of Lawrence is afloat at Clinton Lake during May and June,
he is often in pursuit of the flathead catfish. This is, however, such an uncommon endeavor that there is only a tiny coterie of fishermen chasing this species across Clinton's 7,000 acres. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - January 31, 2001
Kehde family is hooked on hooking wipers
The wiper is the most inscrutable game fish that inhabits some of the waters hereabouts. And it is that unfathomable and unpredictable nature that intrigues some anglers. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - January 23, 2001
Terry Bivins turns heads with rapid fire fish catching
When Randy Moss of the Minnesota Vikings jumps sky high and catches a football thrown by Daunte Culpepper, spectators and fellow players shake their heads in amazement and say: "How does he do that?"

In angling circles hereabouts, Terry Bivins of Lebo catches fish with the same rapidity and adroitness as Moss catches footballs. Consequentially, Bivins' piscatorial skills leave onlookers and fellow anglers in awe and saying: "How does he do that?" Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde - January 23, 2001
Two northeastern Kansans are top illustrators
Most knowledgeable observers assert that Garold Sneegas and Joe Tomelleri are the world's finest illustrators of freshwater fishes. But these discriminating observers are always amazed to learn that both illustrators call northeastern Kansas home. Read Complete Story

Submitted by Ned Kehde -
Anglers persist to catch fish through ice
By the time the bone-breaking cold weather moderated on Jan. 3, the ice at many spots across Clinton Lake measured 10 to 14 inches thick. For 25 days, temperatures around these parts came in well below normal, and some thermometers registered readings as low as ­15 degrees. Read Complete Story

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