Thread: Kaw lake archives

Nice job Tim great looking fish, yes catch what you need to eat turn the rest back. 500 crappie in the freezer are not doing anyone good.

Originally Posted by TimY

Know you guys are probably sick of hearing this but fished this morning before the wind came up and killed them. Caught probably 80 crappie kept a few. Released several big females. Fish were 15 to 17 ft deep and water temp was 38 deg. Saw several smaller fish caught on pink / chart slabalicious mr. crappie and a few nice ones. Fished rip rap all morning. Wind was to bad to try anywhere else.

Quite the contrary Tim, at least for me, appreciate you taking the time to report and showing pics! Keep up the good work!!

Got to the boat ramp right after daylight yesterday morning and already 5 boats on the water before me. Think some guys sleep in the parking lot. Lake was dead calm and water temp was 40 deg and almost muddy. Fished 5 1/2 hours and only managed 14 keepers between .75 and 1.4 lbs. Tons of smaller fish suspended around 10 ft ate us alive. Bigger fish were schooled right below them. Bite was really slow during the morning hopefully the afternoon bite picked up for everyone. Running 5 poles with double minnow rig and could only pick up a keeper every 15 to 20 minutes. Would have been better off settin up a hot dog and hamburger stand in the boat parking lot.

I want the beer concession in the parking lot

Same for me on sat as your post. Did have a great day fri, Hit and miss as usual.

Are there still clouds of shad

Yes there are so many you cant hardly see the piles or scan for fish.. The whole lake is that way it seems for me.

X2. It doesn't look like we are gonna have enough cold weather to have a big shad kill this year. They have thinned out some along the rip rap and went into the channels but there is still a ton of them. Tried to fish some open lake brush piles but that's pretty much useless with all the shad. Between them and high winds they are really keeping the lake stirred up.