Amen bro, glad to hear the girl is home and well. Now go have a day of fun and get back to work feeding that family of yours

If you need to just get fish on a hook then try throwing work chunks in the shallows along the west end and you should catch some cats as well. They continue to stay active and anywhere you can find some marginal shallow water without too much crud to snag the kids up should give you a chance for some fish. Try around prarie dog bay where white cat point is as you can get into the shallower water easier around there then the true west end right now.
Craig

Harlan is up another .4 feet in the last few days and climbing still. Getting bigger all the time. Plus it has rained quite nicelly down stream of Harlan adding a nice wall of water to Kansas for future credit or whatever it is we need to give them. I think the cut off for water was yesterday for last year but either way we are going to owe them water again so no matter what, more water for Kansas and our lake is still climbing.

Sounds like you still had a good time bro and yet again another celebrity on the boat with you. Who next? You guiding Steve Lytle?
Craiger

Fished there this morning and caught 10 wipers and 8 whites. Nice time and great to still see all that water.

I kissed her and sent her back in the water with absolute joy!
My first 20+ pound fish in Nebraska and what a hoot it was!

Thanks B for posting it. It was taken with a camera phone at 8am under cloudy skies so it is was tough to the get the photo to lighten up but via the picture in email it looked at least way better then it did on the phone. Anybody can lighten that up has my blessing!

I am glad to hear the wipers were going Seth. Were you fishing after dark or just in the evening? And were you literally at the bubble? I figured it would be too shallow there as you can literally see current 45 yards away from the bubble trying to get in the rest of the lake which led me to believe it was extremely shallow there.
Craig

Just a heads up B, I made plans with pops to fish tomorrow morning that way I do not hang you up.

Sent you an email bud did not know whether it went through Brian.

Just saying hello. Wanted to know if you were looking for some company on Thursday? I am off and going fishing myself and did not yet have plans.

Craig

Howdy All!

Take my boy DonnyD fishin!

Dustin lived in Nebraska the last number of years and left his #1 fishing partner in the world behind, ME. He is truly missed out here and became my favorite ever fishing partner. We still talk every chance we get and so far he has touched less fish in Wisconsin then I have fingers on one hand due to working hard in college and a part time job to boot. So after next week when he finishes up finals, and you all are looking for a fishing partner for the morning let this fine example of a young man come along. He is about 10 years younger then I and yet as a 20 something year old is truly, well he is in my wedding in June so enough said!

Take the boy fishing!

This un-solicited personal add for a friend is now over.

Craig

Buddy and I found about 50 in the Kearney area yesterday in 4 hours of looking. Most had been around a few days so looking for the new batch to be coming up with great results.

Now do not go make me feel bad Greg! You stated that you could not go out this weekend as you had stuff to do at the house and get the boat ready.
However props are due where they are due and you sir have earned them as I have not shared the place with others per your request yet turned Tammy on to a great day.
Even if I could get her on fish she has not shut up about getting to go walleye fishing with you this spring in your boat so even if I am not invited, she will be begging you to go
Craig

Nice job Brian!
Tammy, my fiancee and I had the oportunity to fish the same spot the next day. To our advantage we had the better weather day and therefore the better bite. We fished from 8-12:30 that morning and produced over 120 fish between the two of us. Tammy had three fish in the boat before I dropped my first line it was so hot. Action kept up until about noon and then tapered off. We headed home with 40 beauties for some nice suppers. Thanks to Greg for teaching me the ways of the crappie as those skills and a morning off kept Tammy and I in fish for a great trip. It was 28 degrees and frost was on the jon boat when we got there and it was not warm to say the least with a 20 mile an hour wind out of the south but the fish did not seem to mind.
Craig

Fished at the inlet for about an hour from 1 till 2 but did not catch anything. Probably should have fished later in the afternoon but had to head back to town. Lake still frozen 75% including the dam.

Going to try it out tomorrow.

Put Harlan on the list and the west end of big mac.

Thanks Seth for the report.

I will 5th, 6th and 7th Johnson’s as well along with Harlan as my biggest wish lists.

Thanks to Duck who posted the report I had the pleasure of meeting him yesterday afternoon as a friend and I were there. I caught 15 bluegill and 5 or so bass of which 5 gills were 9-9 1/2 inches. The bad news is they meat has parasites in it. Greg brought it to my attention and I was able to confirm it making a beatiful small mess of bluegills a sad loss.
However the skunk is dead which is mighty fine news.
Craig

They just re vamped that lake a few years ago so those are some huge gills for the amount of time they have been in the lake.

I heard there were nice fish in Yanny duckhuntrrus but 9-11 inch gills is awesome. West end? Like west of the bridge in the small part of the lake? I will be darn. I would have figered them in the bigger long east side. But hey what do I know, I am the one that got skunked. Maybe we will have to meet up soon and do some fishing as I am at the inlet at Johnsons a bunch in spring and perhaps get together and do some fishing.
Craig

That actually helps me understand why fishing has been so tuff the last week here in SC NE Tomich. I have to beat this skunk as it is two trips in a row now. Thinking of Harlan next Teu. and your slabbing idea will help. May set up a few tip ups as well but either way I just want to kiss a fish

That is great news dude! Those are huge gills at 11 inches. I tried west of Johnson’s yesterday morning for crappie in 22 foot of water and got skunked. Then I went to the open water at the inlet at Johnson’s and watched dead and dying shad float by but no bite. Then I finished at Sandy Channels and got skunked so you must have the secret spot or I just went the wrong day. One of the two.
I figure Harlan should have some safe ice by now and with the temps this weekend we should have ice for a while. Going to try and do something Teu. as skunked twice in a row is just low.

After hearing stories last year about your KS crappie experiences all I can say is I wish I did not work this coming weekend. If I was not invited I would be following your ride south from the border! Hope you do well and if you get a Teu or Thu off let me know.
Craig

The reason is your site is pre-set on a certain time period. On the page you can change it from last 30 days, last year and so on. This will open up more of the reports for you to view. Did you make it out fishing last weekend Greg?

Thanks DJ for taking the time however to try and give me a hand and your information and reports give me good ideas on how to try to find the panfish in this lake too.
Thanks
Craig

I may have created some confusion flatwater as I have discovered there are more then one Smith lakes in that area. The one I was looking at is north of Oshkosh in the Crescent lake wildlife area and the other that is shown on the NGPC map is the one further north up by Rushville. I would guess the one you are referring to is the one further north?

I have a hand auger, no vexilar, no camera and nothing but desire and fishing equipment without the extra gadgets. I will however take all of that good advice into account as active fish is indeed crucial. To answer sharbait’s question her father is Dennis Allen who is the superintendent of roads for Garden County so you may know who he is.

Different Zach referenced from the other report Fisherman Zach but thank you anyway good sir as I know you have been to lots of places out west I have yet to hear about let alone fish.
Craig

#7 is indeed the swim pond and Greg is correct. It was listed in the 2007 NGPC outlook as having a high number of 8+ inch bluegills in it and we gave it a good shot based on that information. Was looking for something close to town where we could get on some good sized panfish and still make it to work at noon but that pond on that day was apparently not the ticket.
Craig

Nice job and nice fish Zach. Good to see some nice looking fish through the ice.
Craig