Tag: Kids Fishing

An Incredible Day on a New Lake

We decided to try a new lake we had never been to. We drove an hour and half to the lake. On the way it was raining a little, so I was hoping we would get lucky and not get too wet. When we arrived at the lake, it was windy and raining a little. By the time we got to our first spot it was down pouring. Kyle started with a fluke and Nick with a frog.  We decided to start on a deep bluff out of the wind and rain. We fished down the bank without any bites.  Then we decided to try the dam which the wind was blowing in on. When you go to a lake you have never been on, it is always a good idea to try the dam especially when the wind is blowing in on it. Both of the twins decided to try a crankbait on the dam. My choice was a spinnerbait. It did’t take long to hook up. On the first pass down the lake, we all hooked up. Being the first time on the lake, we decided to have another pass down the dam. For the next two hours, we caught some really nice fish with a couple being over 5 pounds. After you find fish with moving baits, it is always a good thing to go back through with a slower bait. All the big fish were caught on weightless Senkos. I felt bad the big fish kept hitting my baits. I even moved to the back of the boat, but it didn’t make a difference. The boys were throwing the same thing. For the last hour, I sat down and just watched the twins fish. It was an incredible day, and our best five were 19lbs.

Family Day on Banner Creek

Flint Hills Bass Club had family day on Banner Creek on June 2. The twins and I would start the day without Trey and Melissa because Trey had a tee-ball game in the morning. A nice rain storm came through in the morning before the fishing derby started. We had about 4 good spots to fish. I knew our first spot would be gone. So, I planned on fishing our second spot, which just before we took off, I noticed some bank fishermen on the spot. We had to start on a spot that was similar to the other spots, but just doesn’t usually have the quality or quanity. But on the first casts, both boys hooked up with 15 inches. A great start! We would catch our limit in 30 minutes and started culling. Most of the fish were caught on soft plastics, and a couple of smaller fish where caught on crankbaits. Kyle was able to catch two fish on a frog. Melissa and Trey showed up with a hour to fish, and we only caught a couple of small fish in the last hour. We ended up with 11.88 lb for second place. It wasn’t a bad day for fishing. Anytime you fish with your family is a great day.

GLEN ELDER FALL FISHING

We made a trip out to Glen Elder for a B.A.S.S. Kansas Youth Team Series Event. It was a great day on the water with my boys. We arrived at the ramp while the High School’s event was going on. There were a couple of teams fishing around the ramp, and they were hooking up almost on every other cast with white bass or non-keeper smallmouth. The fish needed to be over 15 inches to weigh-in with a bass pass which will allow tournaments on Kansas to weigh-in 5 fish over 15 inches between Sept 1 thru June 15 then released back into the water.

It was a very difficult day to pre-fish with the wind and high school kids fishing on most of the spots. Also, you try to stay out of the way of the High School kids fishing the event. I decided to start in an area we had luck before and was out of the wind. Nick hooked up with a tiny smallmouth right away. Then we moved to the back of the cove which I made a mistake and threw by some stickup. My line started swimming off and I set the hook. It was a nice keeper largemouth.

Then a high school team moved in on the spot, and we decided to move out of the way. We watched them catch two non-keepers off the stickups. I decided to move over to the south bank to some other stickups I have had luck on. It didn’t take long to hookup. But it was the wrong species, wipers. Twins were having too much fun not to let them catch some wipers. After a couple of hours, we decided to go watch the high school weigh-in, and after the weigh-in we would come back out.

We fished a couple of main lake points which we hooked up with drum and wipers. We were moving around and not having much luck, so the twins wanted to go catch some more wipers. We decided to hit the south bank again which we should have never fished again. Kyle threw up by a stickup with a small crankbait and hooked up with a keeper smallmouth. He was just so excited about catching the smallmouth that he was shaking. We then caught a couple of more wipers and smallmouth.

Tournament Day was very tough for the boys. I cannot fish on tournament days; I can only coach them, run the trolling motor and the big motor. It is so hard to be patient when they are not catching them. You keep thinking should we be fishing over there on that point. Maybe the dam or back of that cove. Then should they be throwing this or try that. I have not made very good decisions this year. We tried the stickup in the back of the cove which I caught the keeper largemouth. The boys caught three non-keeper largemouth right away, but then went another 30 minutes without a bite. I decided to move them to the south bank, and we would not even get a bite. Not good; we should have never fished it so hard the day before. We moved to a wind main lake point which Nick caught a non-keeper smallmouth on a crankbait. Then, I made a mistake instead of continuing to fish down the riprap along the point, I moved us over to the south bank again. The boys would hookup with a couple of wipers, but with 30 minutes to go I decided to go back to the point and fish down the riprap which Kyle would catch a keeper with 20 minutes left in the tournament. Then both the twins caught 3 more non-keeper smallmouth. They would just weigh one fish in. I found out the winning team fished riprap on the north side in the wind. Oops!!! I should have listened to that first smallmouth Nick caught off the point. The number one rule when you catch a fish is she maybe telling you whats going on. If we had fished down that riprap 2 hours earlier maybe we could have caught a limit.

A little family time at Banner Creek

We have been having some luck at Banner Creek lately, and I decided to take the whole family over there to try our luck. We were supposed to have a baseball game, but the early rain made the field too wet. So, fishing sounded good! The day before we caught 41 fish and 5 best over 17 inches. Tonight, we would only catch 26 fish with biggest bass being over 18 inches. I hope you enjoy the video.

Fun at the Lake as a Family

We went to prefish for an upcoming tournament for the twins. The lake was very high from the recent rains we had received, but it would turn out to be a very fun family outing. There is nothing like spending the day outside with the family without any TV or tablets. I didn’t even get a fishing pole out for me to fish on the whole outing.  It was just a blast to watch the boys catch fish.