Thread: Kaw lake archives

So what will this really do for your fishing in the next few years! Real sorry to hear all this.

Was out earlier. They had 6 open when I got there then shut them all down. Gate 5 from the west appears to have somr damage to it. It was leaking/spraying quite a bit at the bottom. Saw a guy catching a couple crappie off the ramp. I am gonna take my big cat stuff out this evening and try straight off the wall for Mr. FLATTY

That's good. The rooster tails are open 4'. That's taking water from 60' deep. Not a lot of fish at that depth.
Brergy1, same thing happened in the 90's. Before the massive discharge, crappie were good, the sandbass, saugeye, and walleye were excellent. Bass were few and far between.
After the discharge, fishing for those specie were excellent below the dam for a couple of years, then it petered out somewhat. For the next 14 years or so, spring runoff kept the water levels up and down during spawn seasons, so there was little reproduction.
Come 2010, the drought hit, and lake levels stayed fairly constant. 5 years of great spawns made Kaw one of the best lakes in Ok. to fish. The bass tourney the weekend before the high water was won with a 5 fish string just under 20lbs. Blues and channel cats were in big numbers and so on.
If they do a slow release, the lake might not suffer too bad. That's what I'm hoping for.

Well, I just got off the lake. Was looking for shad to bait lines, and didn't see any big concentrations. Launched at Kaw city. Immediately started seeing fish on the locator in the cove. Suspended from 8-20' trolled through them with a crank bait, and picked up a nice blue about 8 lbs. Thats the only fish that bit. Cruised around the lake and went to the Sarge creek bridge. The steel frame work under the bridge was about 10' above me. In one cove, in the back, there were swarms of little fry about 1/2" long so something spawned.
Good deal!

I just got in as well. Fished off the east wall got this nice blue 17lb or so and another like him and a flathead about 12lbs in an hours work.....man I am good lookin!

Nice! I only have pics of the fillet's.

What was the bait of choice?

Shad and bream

They are saying that some boat ramps should be usable by June 22. I'm sure that depends on the rain. They are dumping 19,300 cfms this morning so it should start dropping if they hold it there