Boy Scout Camps/ Lakes

Been talking to a buddy of mine about some "annual fee" small lakes located on BSA lands in Kansas. Apparently the fees are steep but the fishing, limited to a few, is really good. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

"Apparently the fees are steep but the fishing, limited to a few, is really good." -You must be talking about QSR, if so you pretty much nailed it, also the calendar days are limited also from scouts at summer camp and the water temp. Looked into this a couple years ago and could not justify the cost and long drives (gas money) to get down there often. Use to fish the lake as much as possible for crappie and bass when I was in scouts. That lake is responsible for my addiction to fishing. :cheers2

Murray Gill Lake at Quivira scout ranch has great fishing. It is very under fished and has a lot of big bass and use to have an over abundance of crappie. Let me know if you make it there, I have not been in years, I use to be a camp councilor there.

Thanks for the replies guys. I understand if I wait 2 years til I turn 65 the fee is cut in half to 500.00 I think. I'm thinking about it. If I see one more picture of overflowing live wells I might have to pull the trigger early! At that point I may start hunting some marriage counseling! I served as a scoutmaster for 3 years so maybe they will cut me a little slack.:woohoo

Where do you find the information about getting on the lake? I haven't been able to find anything. Is there a website I'm not seeing or do you have to call someone? Thanks.

I found the contact people who sent me an application form by contacting the BSA and asking for Kansas districts. Then I tracked this lake and program down pretty quickly. All of the information is home in my desk and I'd like to post it for you but I am in the Philippines on an 18 month mission trip . I will be home next February but by then you will have figured it out. Maybe someone on the site has more information and hopefully has fished the lake recently. I actually think there are other Kansas lakes in this program as well. Good luck.

Thanks for your reply and thanks for doing mission work.

I've seen this lake in person but not on it, while taking a trip to sedan city lakes and that lake is beautiful. Water looks good and lots of steep rock faces. The lake looks to be deep.

Good to know. Thanks. Would you venture a wild guess as to how many acres? Also if anyone knows about or has seen the ramp I am wondering what it is like.

37.232345,-96.191625 - Google Maps

Thanks Super. I googled the lake and even saw a picture of the ramp. It's bigger than I thought at over 400 acres.

The lake is 475 acres if I remember correctly. The boat ramp is decent and only one lane. If the water gets really low it's unusable. The lake has a no wake rule, but i don't know if buying a permit excludes you from that rule. The lake is fairly deep all over and only standing timber is in the Hell Creek arm near the dam. The lake used to have black crappie in it, but it was pretty rare to catch one of those.

Fished the lake a lot from a canoe, a old jon boat, or my dads old boat, all of which had no depth finder or very old technology. So fishing brushpiles was based on lining up with certain trees and a certain depth. (wait, I still do that today even with better depthfinders and gps). haha. Fun times...

Thanks Tim- exactly the kind of information I was looking for. Thank you! But did you catch crappie? That's the big question. (-;