Exploring a new lake

[bluebasser86]

Well Jon and I fished Cedar Valley in Garnett Wednesday until 1. I'd never been there before but I can say I will go back to Cedar Valley without a doubt. It isn't a numbers lake for certain but when you get one it's a healthy fish. We caught largemouth, white bass/wiper, drum, channel cat, flathead, and sunfish. Our bass were on homemade chatterbaits and brush jigs, Luck E Strike squarebills, Cavitrons, SK series 5, Xcaliber XR50, and Zoom Mag II worms. For some reason the west shoreline was by far the best. We got out there before the sun started to lighten the sky. Very rocky and deeper than I expected. First fish was a channel cat that smashed my chatterbait. Next was a 14" bass that sucked down a cavitron. We pulled into the second little pocket to the north of the boatramp and doubled up. Jon's fish at a homemade chatterbait.

Mine surprised me, didn't think it was very big but turned out it must have been swimming at the boat. 3.94lbs on a Luck E Strike squarebill, my biggest of the day.

Cast back to the same spot with a 1/2 homemade brush jig and got another 18" keeper.

We caught fish all down the bank to the dam but once we got across the dam to the opposite shoreline the bite stopped, completely. There was one big cove that looked so good but it was missing one big thing, as was the rest of the west shoreline, no baitfish surfacing anywhere. They were everywhere on the east bank flipping around. A few were flipping in one little pocket in the bigger cove. Pulled my jig over a log and felt the thump through my slack line. My 3rd keeper of the day inhaled my homemade brush jig.


We went way back in the creek after that because the wind was howling. The bait was there but the bass were not. came out a little ways and fished a channel swing bank and caught a few more 14-16 inch fish but much slower than we'd started. There was one little pocket south of the ramp so we cut across and fished that. Like turning a light switch, we came across the lake and started catching fish again. I broke off a solid feeling fish and we caught 6 or 7 more out of that cut after catching 4 or 5 in 3 hours of fishing the east shoreline.
I'm closing in on 2,000 bass for the year also. I'm sitting at 1962 on the year now so I believe I should be able to get 2k by the end of next week if I don't spend too much time sitting in my treestand this week

[skeeter1804]

Nice catch Blue, wish I had a small boat to try some of the holes around KC.

[lilmule]

Nice report.great fishing it appears.

[bluebasser86]

Originally Posted by skeeter1804

Nice catch Blue, wish I had a small boat to try some of the holes around KC.

Ever fish Spring Creek in Baldwin City? It isn't far from you and has some pretty nice fish. It's small enough to bank fish too. I've got my little aluminum bass boat and and even small johnboat so I can explore pretty much any body of water around here.