Huge Kress Lake catfish

[1bugman]

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

[seth30]

I liked the fishing out there but the hunting was not that fun.  Too darn hot and muggy  

[1bugman]

Or Cold and WINDY.

[seth30]

yeah outside of the trees in the checkerboard farms it would get get windy. 

[1bugman]

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.

[seth30]

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.

[1bugman]

cicadas probably, I do miss the fireflies, they were cool.

[seth30]

yes and the locals out there called them lighting bugs   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.

[1bugman]

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

[seth30]

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.

[huntinhick]

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.

carl

[seth30]

oh carl why did you say that word..  My mind blocked out those little bugs

[1bugman]

Never messed with any of them, luckily. we'd get tons of crickets, and HUGE wolf spiders. Not many cockroaches though.

[huntinhick]

come on what is fishing with out 4000 little red bites that itch like hell!

[seth30]

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.