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Fishing at Marina Bay at Branched Oak Lake

9/26/2020

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Warm, Saturday morning for fishing at Branched Oak Marina Bay area, started out seeking Crappie off the breakwaters, found small fish biting minnows but nothing to brag about! Fun to catch and release small Crappies on light tackle. Change up, looked for Fiddler Catfish and tried a variety of baits - leeches, minnows, Canadian nightcrawlers, and shrimp on jigs and Satra Special rig.. Picked up 3 fiddlers on these Catfish fodder. Also caught 3 small F. Drum that seemed to like the jigged crawlers! Trip was a good one to work on getting outdoors and some good sunshine for mental health, a needed break from cutting pasture cedar trees. Always an adventure on the water! Checked for fall Bolete mushrooms on my way home, again, none found, I won’t give up!
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Chunky “fiddler” channel catfish caught at Branched Oak Lake
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Prairie Queen Reservoir Fishing Trip

9/21/2020

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Cool, sunny morning for fishing at Prairie Queen.  Fished with ultralights and light 4# line, leeches, Euro and Canadian crawlers and fished in the trees and drop offs.  Caught LMB, Crappie, Redear sunfish and Bluegill.  Run of the mill sizes but a good bite and fun to fish at Prairie Queen.
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Fall Fishing at Yankee Hill

9/14/2020

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Slow fishing morning amongst the California smoke. Hit the shoals hard with a bonus 22” wally caught off a breakwater tip on jig and leech. Shoals produced a mere 3 largemouth, 2 crappie and 2 white bass.  Yep white bass in Yankee, mostly small but they are growing!  Water on the surface was like green paint, not pretty!  Hope the wind blows or this lake is setup for a ugly fish kill!
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22” wally hit the jig and leech, SE Nebraska wally are “racy” compared to the robust, butterball alewife and gizzard shad prey fed wally in the irrigation reservoirs. Taste is the same with hot grease and a beer batter!
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Yep, Yankee Hill covered in algae, thick as pudding and green as a goard! Please sun do the “shine” and wind, please blow for some mixing ! This lake needs some help!
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Sun is coming up and it has that glow to it, California and Oregon wildfires! Cough cough!
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Anyone bring a paint brush?
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Catfish, Bluegill, and Crappie at Wildwood

8/22/2020

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Warm morning for fishing at Wildwood. Winds were light from the southwest - I like some chop on the water.  Picked up a handful of Bluegill and a fair Crappie on 1/16 oz. jigs and leeches and Canadian night crawlers. Highlight was 2 big C. Catfish (10-12# range) on the light line and ultralight rods, fun to catch!  REGULATION: Total catch and release on the catfish at Wildwood. Saying this to those that don’t read the signs or look at the fishing regulations and are keeping them. The reason they get that big in Wildwood is because of the good folks that abide by the regulation - enough said!
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Mr Frog-Just sit there, I will be back for you in a few days!
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10lb Channel Catfish caught on a jig and leech at Wildwood.
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12+ lb Channel Catfish caught while fishing for Bluegill at Wildwood Lake this AM.
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In the Snag Trees at Flanagan Lake

8/14/2020

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Chunky, Channel Catfish caught in the “boneyard” trees at Flanagan Lake
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Nice male Bluegill caught on a leech at Flanagan Lake
Nice Friday morning trip to Flanagan with a nice guy from Lincoln - we fished from the boat! Light south winds. We fished small jigs and the Satra special rigs tipped with medium-large size leeches and crawlers. He jigged amongst the trees.  We also placed a slip bobber on the edges of the inundated trees fishing 6’ depths.  The Bluegill bite was great with fish up to 8.5”. Landed one medium sized crappie about 8”. Highlight of the morning was landing a pig, 20 inch plus Channel Catfish from within the dense tree vertical habitat.
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Trolling at Wanahoo

8/10/2020

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Early morning trip to Wanahoo with a friend and his dog in the boat! Light winds and sun was low so we put the trolling rods out, we snapped on a couple crankbaits, a # 7 Flicker shad and a #9 Flicker minnow. Spooled out 100’’ of line on the line counter reels and pulled them at  2.5- 2.7 mph range over open waters. Bumped the bottom on the edge of the lakes drop offs and points and hooked up with one, nice 16” (about 3 lbs) Bucketmouth Bass. We changed tactics with the light north wind, we anchored up tying off to trees and finesse fished with the Satra special rigs tipped with Can. NC’s and also we used small jigs tipped with medium-large size leeches. Best results jigging among the trees and casting the 1/32 oz. jigs off these points near deep water drop offs into 22’ depths, fish were hanging out in 8-12’.
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Big plump bucketmouth bass caught trolling with a Flicker minnow.
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Nice 17” largemouth bass caught on a dropoff at Lake Wanahoo.
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Weather did not keep us from fishing at Lake Wanahoo.
The weather changed; first came the rains, then the winds. We took refuge and a short in the truck in the parking lot. The rains stopped so we boarded the boat and toughed out the strong north 30-35 mph winds. The bite was good for smaller Crappies and we caught Bluegill up to 9”. We stay with the plan to “target” the big Bass catching a few more while finishing out the trip with blue skies. Strange weather morning for fishing at Lake Wanahoo.
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Great Day of Fishing at Flanagan

8/8/2020

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A good Bluegill bite as a mother and teenage son joined me for fishing at Flanagan Lake. They jigged among the trees and cast/finesse fished with small 1/32 oz. jigs with bling tipped with medium sized leeches and crawlers. No disappointment in the quality of fish caught and the bite today at this new lake in northwest Omaha. A number of fair sized Crappie up to 9” with jigs tipped with plastic bodies. Trip was a short one but a few small Bass were hooked in the same depths as the Bluegill. A fun morning fishing at this catch and release fishing lake for these two anglers.
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Sunday Morning at Wildwood

7/12/2020

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Nice cool Sunday morning trip to Wildwood.  Busy place with lots of bank anglers, boats, and yakers out enjoying fishing! Short trip but I fished 3 locations extensively with jigs and leeches, slip bobbers, Satra special rig and leeches - Euro nightcrawlers, fished 4’ to 11’ depths. A good catch of bluegill to 9” on the edges of the vegetation next to drop offs. I didn’t catch a single Crappie or a Bass.  Saw a couple big Channel Catfish caught and released in shallow water by an angler fishing for them. Total catch and release regulation for catfish in Wildwood, why they get a chance to get big in this small flood control lake!

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Flanagan Lake Fishing

7/10/2020

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A morning recon trip to Flanagan Lake seeking out active fish.  Flanagan is a new lake in northwest Omaha, basically located at 168th & Fort Street. Time to fish it since last visiting it on the hard water in February!  Flanagan is a total catch and release lake with a no wake boating regulation. A great place to fish with a small boat, canoe or kayaks.  The lake does not have an accessible fishing pier but numerous breakwaters to fish from if you are a shoreline angler.

How was fishing?   Non-stop catching fish!  I fished a variety of techniques to target all the species stocked in this lake with abundant aquatic habitats and structure. Scaled down on the sizes of bait, jigs and plastics!
Surface water temps were 78-80F not uncommon to early July in Nebraska reservoirs.  Hummingbirds sonars/fish finders had fish all over the board but I focused on 8-9’ depths as I patterned the numbers!  Tough to get a hook down to 9’ at times because of bites or bait thieves - that's a good thing!  I caught mainly Bluegill ranging from 4” to 7.5” with a few fish in very good condition to 8”, numerous crappie were caught in the 7-8” range, fun on ultralight rods and reels and light terminal tackle.  Did not target the bass but saw plenty of them “cruising” looking for a meal.  Caught ​Bass measuring up to 16” among the plentiful structure.

​Very nice lake to fish and it will only get better, the fish are growing fast and lots of them. Only took a few pix at the end of the trip, what happens when you leave the camera phone in the Jeep!
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Pawnee Lake Recon Trip

7/7/2020

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A morning recon trip to Pawnee Lake seeking a Saugeye or two. Long line trolled over 11’-19’’ depths with variable sizes of Rapala Shad Rap's, Walleye Divers, Flicker minnows, Thin Fins and Tail Dancers. Only caught small White perch on smaller #5 size cranks so "up-sized" to keep them off the line. Caught 8 Scourge White Perch, and 1 small Crappie after 3 hrs fishing. Slow morning of catching fish at Pawnee -- why I don’t guide clients here! 
This lake lacks anything for littoral zone habitat i.e. structure, lucky if you snag on something on the bottom of this lake, mainly open water fishing in the pelagic zone. Is and makes for a good Catfish lake. Abundant prey (small w. Perch) scattered everywhere in the water column for easy picking if you are a large predator fish like a blue or flathead catfish !   Winds never came up to the weather prediction magnitude, no Walleye chop!
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June 19th

6/19/2019

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Pike are fun to catch while fishing for crappie!!
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August 16 Frogging Trip

8/17/2016

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On last night's frogging trip there was very little wind - an important part of successful frogging - and the frogs were aggressive. I caught 11 frogs and kept 8 (the limit) nice frogs. I keep scouting really great frogging locations that I can't wait to share with people. Frogging is fun!
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June 1st Fishing Trip

6/2/2016

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Kayak fishing trip at Wildwood on a nice evening with lots of action. Steve and I were kept busy catching bluegill and crappie and the occasional small bass using leeches and crawlers for bait. It was Steve's first time using an Ultralite rig and my "Satra Special", so I walked him though how that's fished. It didn't take long to catch on and soon enough he was landing fish. Steve enjoyed fishing from the Hobie Kayak and is considering purchasing one himself.
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