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Birdwatchers flock to Topeka for glimpse at rare swallow-tailed kite

9/2/2018

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Submitted photo by Scott Wilson

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There’s something in the air in northeast Kansas — and it isn’t the flu.

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Target bends in rivers, creeks for pre-spawn walleye action

2/25/2018

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Photo by Josh Rouse

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With ice beginning to thaw on lakes across the state, many anglers have a specific species in mind they’re looking to target.

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Chatt Martin discusses deep-water winter crappie tactics, guiding

12/3/2017

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Crappie Chatt Martin, who was a longtime tournament angler in northeast Kansas, has been guiding full time since 2010. (Submitted photographs)

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What began as a part-time gig to help him enter crappie tournaments has blossomed into a full-time career for one area angler.

“Crappie” Chatt Martin, of Lawrence, said he began subsidizing his tournament fishing costs through his guiding service, Crappie Time Fishing, in 2000 while working his day job at Johnson County Community College.

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Fishing guide Clyde Holscher talks strategy for catching rainbow trout on record-setting waters of Lake Shawnee

10/14/2017

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Local fishing guide Clyde "The Guide" Holscher holds up a big rainbow trout he caught while fishing recreationally on Lake Shawnee. He often fishes with longtime outdoors writer Ned Kehde, using Z-Man Fishing Products to "bass fish for trout" in the body of water known for carrying state-record fish in the past. (Submitted photograph)

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Shawnee County Parks and Recreation will once again stock Lake Shawnee with 7,000 pounds of rainbow trout at noon Oct. 28, offering a unique experience for anglers in northeast Kansas.

The trout season officially opens Nov. 1 in Kansas, but the lake will be closed to fishing until Nov. 4 to allow more time for the fish to disperse. This also gives trout anglers more time to prepare and devise the perfect strategy to catch some big fish this fall on the man-made lake.

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Species Feature: Freshwater drum a tasty, tough-fighting fish

8/17/2017

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Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism

Freshwater drum is one of the more commonly overlooked gamefish in Kansas reservoirs, but its fighting nature and tasty white meat make it a highly underrated species.

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Time for frog legs: Kansas bullfrog season jumps off

7/3/2017

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Bullfrog season kicked off July 1 in Kansas. (Photo by Josh Rouse)

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Bullfrog season leapt into action July 1 in Kansas, with many taking to the waters to search out the delectable amphibians.

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83-pound lake trout, a potential world record, dies in Canadian gill net

3/29/2017

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Members of the Deline First Nation recently harvested what would have been a rod-and-reel world-record lake trout from Great Bear Lake while sustenance fishing with gill nets.

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Lake Shawnee bald eagle eggs have hatched, biologist says

3/20/2017

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A local biologist said this past week he believes the eggs of a pair of bald eagles nesting at Lake Shawnee have hatched, based on the behavior of the adult eagles.

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Migratory paddlefish offer challenge for Kansas wildlife management officials

3/11/2017

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The paddlefish population offers a unique challenge for wildlife management officials in Kansas — mainly because a majority of the spoonbill caught in Kansas spend most of their lives in other states.

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Bassmaster Classic site Lake Conroe a monster bass factory

3/6/2017

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Keith Combs, pictured here fishing in the 2011 Bassmaster Classic on Lake Cataouatche in St. Charles Parish, La., may be an early favorite to win this year’s Classic because of his familiarity and past successes on Lake Conroe near Houston. (FILE PHOTOGRAPH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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In just a few weeks, bass boats will be flooding Lake Conroe, located north of Houston, for the 47th Bassmaster Classic — marking the first time Space City has hosted the “Super Bowl of Bass Fishing.”

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Birdwatchers flock to Topeka for glimpse at rare swallow-tailed kite

Target bends in rivers, creeks for pre-spawn walleye action

Chatt Martin discusses deep-water winter crappie tactics, guiding

Fishing guide Clyde Holscher talks strategy for catching rainbow trout on record-setting waters of Lake Shawnee

Species Feature: Freshwater drum a tasty, tough-fighting fish

Time for frog legs: Kansas bullfrog season jumps off

83-pound lake trout, a potential world record, dies in Canadian gill net

Lake Shawnee bald eagle eggs have hatched, biologist says

Migratory paddlefish offer challenge for Kansas wildlife management officials

Bassmaster Classic site Lake Conroe a monster bass factory

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