Huge Kress Lake catfish

[huntinhick]

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!

[1bugman]

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

[seth30]

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.

[bam]

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. 

[seth30]

yeah those other areas are to painful to remeber   I wish those chiggers moved to california and stayed there.

[nontypical176]

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.

[Wea300mag]

That is a dandy catfish for Washington.

[Cedarcreekkid]

thnaks fellas the trick to kress is fish the back the front is way to crowed