Spoonbill

[gonefishin]

I was watching tv... on a 12 foot by 22 foot jumbotron while seated by the pool in a lounge chair. I was supposed to fish while we were in the Bahamas but the water was real rough. We did not get in a small boat untill we got to Grand Cayman, so I guess I still have never fished in the ocean, other than for blue crabs when I was a boy, I really need to get back down there. I am a coastal Texan ya' know!!! I can't complain though, the entire trip cost me about $150.00 in trinkets for the kids and grandkids. I am blessed with the greatest in-laws in the world.

PS. I am coming to LT the first Saturday in March.

Cool. I have never been to the Bahamas. What are your plans when coming to LT?

[kelly]

Cool. I have never been to the Bahamas. What are your plans when coming to LT?

Plan to go see Phil and get a boat. We might go up by the dam but we are not fly flingers so we generally leave the upper end alone when there is no flow.

[kelly]

Sorry guys, I have been busy and have forgotten about the forum. I just returned from Chetopa dam and the fish are biting. I fished with my dad today. He has been telling me stories about the thirty to forty fish he has been catching in the evening. I have been some but only to get skunked.

Today was my turn. We caught about seventy fish altogether, Largemouth, whites, hybrids, stripers, crappie, carp, gar, drum, and an eight pound flathead (in the mouth on a spoon, fourlb test hoo-rah.)

They really liked chrome or red lures in the boils. I caught my first striper today also, about three pounds, dads was bigger. The water is down but the fish are still there.

If you go, the best place when the water is low is paralell with the dam from the corners. It will take a looooong cast (100 ft or so) to get into the middle current where the bigger fish are but a chrome and whatever color kastmaster spoon 3/8 oz or so will do the trick. I was dragging it slowly as close to the dam as I could keep it. It seemed that the fish really liked it there. But don't get me wrong there are plenty of fish ten feet from shore.

One could launch a small jon boat right at the dam and fish the boils that way, sure beats wading. I use the word boil lightly. They are no larger than a washtub right now so don.t let me scare you off if you have not been there. If it was legal I would have been standing on the dam today.

Well its off to the races tonight, the late models are runnin' at Coffeyville.

Kelly