Finally something worth reporting!

bluebasser86 · 08-24-12, 05:37 AM

Peter and I got to Belcher Branch around 5am Wednesday to give that lake a try. Nice little lake with lots of weeds and standing timber. It was a little slow until it got light enough to see what we were doing, then we got on them pretty good with a buzzbait and frog. I got a good fish on the buzzbait at 19 inches and 3.34lbs.

Caught them pretty good until the sun got up higher, then they shut down almost completely. After catching maybe 5 in 2 hours we tossed the boat back on the trailer and crossed over state lines to try Warnock Lake in Atchison. I hadn't fished it in a few years but it used to have good numbers of solid fish. The bright green water and stink from the local hog farms didn't inspire much confidence but we were quickly catching fish, although they were much smaller than I remembered they were very healthy and scrappy. It's only about 30 acres so it didn't take long to make a lap and we did good enough to go around a second time. I picked up a crankbait for the first time and got smacked while I was pulling through a brushpile on the dam and landed a very fat 18" fish that went 3.9lbs.

After getting that one I was inspired to try for a bigger fish so I put a 10" black and blue worm on and started pitching it into the numerous brushpiles. Towards the other end of the lake I stuck a good fish on the worm. Almost 19" long and 3.8lbs.

That was it on the bigger fish but I had a fish that felt really solid come off on one of my homemade jigs right before we left. She was big enough to make a big boil on the surface despite being 2 feet down in a brushpile that I couldn't get her out of. It was nice to get more than one good one for the first time in a long while!

kennethdaysale · 08-24-12, 06:55 AM

Nice fish blue! (hog farm runoff can be your friend

) One of the best 30 acre pits I ever fished in my life got it's water from a 5K acre watershed, half of which was a hog farm and the other half was a corn farm. Talk about a fertile BOW, those bass got fat quick!

bassinbob · 08-24-12, 06:56 PM

Nice. Great catch.

USMCbassman · 08-24-12, 07:14 PM

Dang nice fish!

WatterBoy · 08-24-12, 09:15 PM

Those are some nice fish, blue...way to go! Are you up to 2,000 yet?

bluebasser86 · 08-25-12, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by WatterBoy

Those are some nice fish, blue...way to go! Are you up to 2,000 yet?

1826 after adding 7 more in a hour or so fishing this morning after work

08-24-12, 05:37 AM	#1
bluebasser86 BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Gardner, KS Posts: 605	Finally something worth reporting! Peter and I got to Belcher Branch around 5am Wednesday to give that lake a try. Nice little lake with lots of weeds and standing timber. It was a little slow until it got light enough to see what we were doing, then we got on them pretty good with a buzzbait and frog. I got a good fish on the buzzbait at 19 inches and 3.34lbs. Caught them pretty good until the sun got up higher, then they shut down almost completely. After catching maybe 5 in 2 hours we tossed the boat back on the trailer and crossed over state lines to try Warnock Lake in Atchison. I hadn't fished it in a few years but it used to have good numbers of solid fish. The bright green water and stink from the local hog farms didn't inspire much confidence but we were quickly catching fish, although they were much smaller than I remembered they were very healthy and scrappy. It's only about 30 acres so it didn't take long to make a lap and we did good enough to go around a second time. I picked up a crankbait for the first time and got smacked while I was pulling through a brushpile on the dam and landed a very fat 18" fish that went 3.9lbs. After getting that one I was inspired to try for a bigger fish so I put a 10" black and blue worm on and started pitching it into the numerous brushpiles. Towards the other end of the lake I stuck a good fish on the worm. Almost 19" long and 3.8lbs. That was it on the bigger fish but I had a fish that felt really solid come off on one of my homemade jigs right before we left. She was big enough to make a big boil on the surface despite being 2 feet down in a brushpile that I couldn't get her out of. It was nice to get more than one good one for the first time in a long while!

08-24-12, 06:55 AM	#2
kennethdaysale BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: rock hill, sc Posts: 2,315	Nice fish blue! (hog farm runoff can be your friend) One of the best 30 acre pits I ever fished in my life got it's water from a 5K acre watershed, half of which was a hog farm and the other half was a corn farm. Talk about a fertile BOW, those bass got fat quick! __________________ Sometimes you gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

08-24-12, 06:56 PM	#3
bassinbob BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Pitts. Pa. Posts: 3,801	Nice. Great catch. __________________ you can have my fishin rod when ya take it from my cold dead hands

08-24-12, 07:14 PM	#4
USMCbassman BassFishin.Com Veteran Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Oceanside, CA Posts: 532	Dang nice fish!

08-24-12, 09:15 PM	#5
WatterBoy BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Owatonna, MN Posts: 2,280	Those are some nice fish, blue...way to go! Are you up to 2,000 yet?

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