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Huge Kress Lake catfish
« on: August 08, 2010, 11:47:40 AM »
My boy caught this outta Kress Lake jost off I-5 near Kalama. Didnt realize we had catfish of this size on the west side. :yike:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2010, 12:01:49 PM »
i like the "jeese this is heavy" look.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2010, 12:35:35 PM »
Lacamas has some of those. I have caught some small cats in most of the lakes around here but nothing that sized. Looks like if you were at kress you were on the back side...
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2010, 06:30:16 PM »
A big ole cat.  Nice fish!  Did ya eat em??
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 06:32:30 PM »
Good fiddles there  :drool:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2010, 01:38:11 AM »
Nice cat, How much did it weigh?
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2010, 04:41:16 AM »
damn thats a hog for this side foresure,nice catch :drool:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2010, 05:34:47 AM »
Really nice cat
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2010, 08:56:58 PM »
well the story goes i was fishing next to an china man who was tryin to feed his family so i gave him the fish and turns out it woulda been the new state record  :bash:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2010, 09:03:18 PM »
Sweet fish. I haven't seen a cat that big since I was in Kansas.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2010, 09:04:18 PM »
Is that a bull head and is it a record? :dunno:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2010, 09:13:04 PM »
looks like it may be 15lbs or so  :dunno:  . really nice channel.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2010, 11:38:28 AM »
that was a thirty eight pound chanel  :kneel:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2010, 11:39:32 AM »
nice cat right there!
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2010, 12:02:24 PM »
Quote from: 1bugman on August 09, 2010, 09:03:18 PM
Sweet fish. I haven't seen a cat that big since I was in Kansas.
what part?  I used to fish them in Olathe lake back in the early 90's.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2010, 12:32:33 PM »
Quote from: seth30 on August 10, 2010, 12:02:24 PM
Quote from: 1bugman on August 09, 2010, 09:03:18 PM
Sweet fish. I haven't seen a cat that big since I was in Kansas.
what part?  I used to fish them in Olathe lake back in the early 90's.
Around Junction City, I was stationed  at Riley, from 95 to 97
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2010, 01:13:23 PM »
I liked the fishing out there but the hunting was not that fun.  Too darn hot and muggy :o 
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2010, 01:39:23 PM »
Or Cold and WINDY.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2010, 02:06:27 PM »
yeah outside of the trees in the checkerboard farms it would get get windy. 
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2010, 02:11:35 PM »
I had rain freeze to my cheek, from the wind chill. And in the summer it would be so damn hot and muggy, you'd have to wait and fish at night.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2010, 02:20:33 PM »
Yeah I remeber those days, and cant remeber the name of the bug, but we had a mulberry tree in the back yard, and these things would make this loud sound all night long.  It sounded like eeee err eee er.  This was  a big green bug that flew around and was the size of a mouse.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2010, 02:22:24 PM »
cicadas probably, I do miss the fireflies, they were cool.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2010, 02:27:49 PM »
yes and the locals out there called them lighting bugs :rolleyes:  They were fun to catch and put in a jar( I was 12 or 13 at the time) and toss them in my sisters room.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2010, 02:31:39 PM »
first time I saw them I was fishing at Geary State lake, it was getting late so I started back to the pickup, I started seeing little lite, thought I was going crazy, till I caught one
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #24 on: August 10, 2010, 02:37:04 PM »
they can get pretty thick in some areas up there, and cover up the windshield quick.  Do you rember what stinkpots are?  I made the mistake of handling one.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2010, 02:37:59 PM »
alright thats enoughI you guys are making me homesick!! :'(  I grew up around Halstead Ks.  besides the incredible whitetail hunting catfish are the other thing I miss about kansas.  we used to run lines in the little arkansas for flat heads and fish for cannels in toronto and fall river.  If I rember right the biggest flathead we pulled up was around 50lbs and the biggest channel was around 25lbs.  I remember the cicadas quite well,  gets so bad you can't sleep sometimes.  one thing I don't miss is chiggers....nasty little *censored*s.

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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2010, 02:40:00 PM »
oh carl why did you say that word..  My mind blocked out those little bugs :'( :chuckle:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #27 on: August 10, 2010, 02:40:34 PM »
Never messed with any of them, luckily. we'd get tons of crickets, and HUGE wolf spiders. Not many cockroaches though.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2010, 02:41:47 PM »
come on what is fishing with out 4000 little red bites that itch like hell!
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #29 on: August 10, 2010, 02:43:45 PM »
they used to get in my arm pits, and behind the knees for some reason.  I liked the crappie fishing the best out there.  I did some cat fishing, but mostly caught painted and snapping turtles out of olathe lake, oregon trail pond, and water works.  When I realed them in, it was like they were water skiing.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #30 on: August 10, 2010, 02:48:17 PM »
behind the knees is the worst that is for sure.  I love a good crappie fry my mouth is watering like crazy.  we used to hit cheney and marion alot for crappie.  My dad is crazy into walleye now so he spends alot of time up at milford.  we used to wade out to the wood piles about chest deep to jig for crappie, the bad part was keeping your eyes open for those damn water mocs!  they love crappie as much as we do! it is not fun trying to ge tout of the water while holding you pole in one hand fish in the other and try to dodge a pissed off snake!
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #31 on: August 10, 2010, 02:49:31 PM »
spent many night on the republic or Arkansas rivers with a 6 pack and a bucket of bait. caught a lot of flatheads, Channels, a few blues, and tons of turtles and shovel nose sturgeon
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #32 on: August 10, 2010, 03:13:19 PM »
I never caught crappies on anything but minnows or lures that looked like minnows.  If I used crawdads taht I caught on the beach then it was bass and sunfish.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #33 on: August 10, 2010, 06:31:36 PM »
He He, just noticed this KS reunion thread.  I hailed from AN county just south of Ottawa and Lawrence.  Sure was fun catching the big cats and crappie for sure.  Always strikes me how muddy those creeks are when back visiting now after being used to our clear streams.  And the chiggers... I can think of areas I got them that was much worse than behind the knees!  :'(    I still have to get back and chase the whitetails every chance I get. 
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #34 on: August 10, 2010, 06:33:26 PM »
yeah those other areas are to painful to remeber :IBCOOL:  I wish those chiggers moved to california and stayed there.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #35 on: August 10, 2010, 07:33:18 PM »
Wow, thats a huge cat for this area.  I live near that lake and a buddy of mine has caught several cats in the 8-12 pound range there.  One night while fishing for cats he caught a 10 lb large mouth bass.  I bass fish there on occasion and haven't even seen one caught over 7 lb. during the day.  I've caught one 5 lb bass and some small cats from Kress.  Some guys hit that lake pretty hard but don't have that kinda luck.  Not a real big lake anyhow.  Awesome fish man, congrats.
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #36 on: August 10, 2010, 07:39:40 PM »
That is a dandy catfish for Washington. :drool:
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Re: Huge Kress Lake catfish
« Reply #37 on: August 10, 2010, 11:14:36 PM »
thnaks fellas the trick to kress is fish the back the front is way to crowed
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