My trip started out as any typical fishing trip does. I got the boat hooked up and off to the ramp at Longview Lake I went. While I waited for my fishing buddy to arrive, who is notorious for being fashionably late, I prepped my boat as best I could waiting to get onto the …
Thomas Wicker and his friend headed out for a trip on Longview Lake early in the morning. Scroll for more on his fishing report from their excursion! Details: When: 7-13-19 from 5:30am-10am Air temp: 78° to 85° Water temp: 82 to 84° Water clarity: Lightly stained, 16 inches of visibility Weather conditions: Calm, light wind, …
I finally had a chance to make it back out on Longview Lake again in the evening. I planned to fish for walleye, but the water was just too rough with pleasure boaters on the main lake. Targeting some areas around the sandy beaches was going to be too much work. The water temperature hovered …
After traveling to Peoria, IL for 3 days and then Wichita, KS for 2 days, you could say I was ready to be on the water Friday night. Conditions were very windy (out of the south/southwest), but mostly clear with isolated storms around the area that never made it to the lake during the trip. …
After several weeks of severely high water across Missouri and Kansas, I was getting down in the dumps, like most anglers. Not only had I not been able to fish much, but when I did, it was also super slow. A part of me didn’t want to mess with even getting the boat out. But …
