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My buddy Johnny and I went out to our favorite small local lake here in Topeka this morning. Lake Shawnee was built waaaay back in 1933 as a WPA project and has continued to be a fantastic fishing hole. We got out there around 6 am and I broke out the big, black Lunker Buzz. I started casting into the thick weed beds along the edge of the bank and it took me all of 10 minutes to find this big guy.
Although I didn't have a scale to weigh him, I am guessing between 3 and 3-1/2 lbs, but I DID have a tape measure and he eclipsed the 20" mark. Not too shabby! Look at the gut on him! Somebody has been eating well.
I caught several more bass, 6 largemouth and a really scrappy smallmouth, but nothing near the size of the first one. Afer about an hour, I decided to move up on the dam. I was throwing a Ghost Shad colored X-Rap trying to entice a wiper to thump it, but low and behold, this nice crappie decided to test his mettle against the lure.
Lake Shawnee is known for large catfish and great bass fishing, but it is not known for producing large crappie. This is the largest crappie I have ever pulled out of the lake, stretching the tape to 14"!
Johnny only caught one smallmouth. I flat put the hurt on him! Fun fun fun!
Ron
Although I didn't have a scale to weigh him, I am guessing between 3 and 3-1/2 lbs, but I DID have a tape measure and he eclipsed the 20" mark. Not too shabby! Look at the gut on him! Somebody has been eating well.
I caught several more bass, 6 largemouth and a really scrappy smallmouth, but nothing near the size of the first one. Afer about an hour, I decided to move up on the dam. I was throwing a Ghost Shad colored X-Rap trying to entice a wiper to thump it, but low and behold, this nice crappie decided to test his mettle against the lure.
Lake Shawnee is known for large catfish and great bass fishing, but it is not known for producing large crappie. This is the largest crappie I have ever pulled out of the lake, stretching the tape to 14"!
Johnny only caught one smallmouth. I flat put the hurt on him! Fun fun fun!
Ron
Last year my most fun day of fishing was out on the river ....catching channel cats and broke my baitcast pole so all I had left was my 4lb test ultralight. Finished off most the day with that. Ran into a big mess of carp and caught 15-20 BIG carp (5-25lbs) on an ultralight 
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