Fishing Reports
11 Fishing Reports
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Swim Jigs
Structure
Points
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
55°
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Swim Jigs
Structure
Points
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
55°
Fishing points and structure
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Docks
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
44°
Placed 2nd in 10 boat tournament. Caught three keepers over 15" for 7.25 pounds. Worked docks, creek channel ledges, and rock banks with small crankbaits. Caught 30-40 fish on the day.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Docks
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
45°
Worked docks and rocky banks with small crankbaits. Produced 20+ smaller fish in a few hours.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Flooded Brush
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
58°
Find the shad, find the fish. Caught over 30 fish in areas with high shad concentrations near main creek channels. Wood or brush in the water around these areas hold a few more fish.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
55°
Caught all my fish above submerged vegetation. Would get the chatterbait stuck, rip it up and would trigger a bite.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
58°
Caught 23 fish from 7am-130pm. Largest fish was 15". Many small fish. Worked through standing timber near bank in 1-10 feet of water.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Football Jigs
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
59°
Had Luck dragging and flipping the football jig around laydowns and brush piles. Had two good bites come off of the new christmas tree brush piles the KDWP put in
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Dam
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
41°
Did not catch any fish today. winds were gusting 15 to 20 mph. was hard to detect bites.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Blade Baits
Structure
Points
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
49°
With mild November weather and daily temps ranging from 50's to near 70 degrees the fall bite has been good. Fish usually move up on points as day warms up. Verticle jigging the deeper water and casting to points got the best bites from largemouth, wiper, white bass, crappie, and bluegill.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Winter
Technique
Hard Jerkbaits
Structure
Stumps
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
51°
La Cygne Lake in Kansas is a Power Plant Lake which has 60-degree water coming out of the discharge. This makes the overall lake water temp 15 degrees higher than surroundings lakes in Kansas and Missouri. The coldest water I found in my 7-hour fishing day was 43 degrees. I started out on the face of the damn with a crankbait and A-rig, and just wasn’t seeing the fish on my forward-facing sonar. I moved to several areas throughout the lake that have produced for me over the last 25 years of fishing this lake (mostly underwater rock piles) and still no bass. I moved to a main lake channel swing and quickly started catching bass on the Luck E Strike STX jerk bait. Eight out of the Ten bass a boated were suspended directly over stumps located in 13’ – 8’ of water. Only five of my ten bass were keepers (must be 18”) but catching a January limit in Kansas…I will take it.
