Spinnerbait mix match trick boosts fishing depth
Spinnerbait expert Jim Houston promotes matching baits to conditions rather than size alone. He advises combining weight, blade, and skirt choices to tailor a lure for depth and speed, with color tips and blade configurations guiding retrieval and visibility.
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Lost lure becomes shoreline legend in Olathe tale
Jenny asked to lose a lure and a father obliged in a comic fishing misadventure. The crankbait a Rapala Rattlin’ Rap ended up wedged high on a power line above Cedar Lake in southwest Olathe. Locals note the unlikely spectacle since that evening.
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Gary McCrary
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Fishing mishap near cove leads to snag on power line
The narrator recalls a failed cast while fishing near a cove. Without wind to blame, the lure arced and snagged on a power line spanning the back of the cove, catching a treble hook. The line remains snagged, and the speaker hopes a storm gust might dislodge it.
Ducks Unlimited selects Ace Basin and Texas coast for first research stations
Ducks Unlimited Wetlands Research Institute will open two study sites in the Ace Basin on the South Carolina coast and at the Delhomme Hunting Lodge near Trinity Bay, Texas. Bruce Batt, the institute director, says the project will expand to Canada, the United States, and Mexico to study birds and their habitats along migratory routes. The Ace Basin spans about 350000 acres with an 18000 acre national wildlife refuge proposed.
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Ducks Unlimited Wetlands Research Institute
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Bruce Batt
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April rainfall cripples hatchery ponds in Kansas
Seven Kansas Wildlife and Parks hatchery ponds at Pratt suffered heavy damage from an April rain storm. One pond filled with silt cannot be drained, six lost nutrients for fingerling rearing, and carp and bullhead entered. About 270,000 walleye and wiper fingerlings will be unavailable this year as fry are stocked directly into lakes. PRATT—further, headlines report a separate case in Her ington where a meat processing firm faces felony charges for illegally selling deer meat over months, with undercover operations triggering the investigation.
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Pratt
Kansas Wildlife and Parks Dept
Don Patton
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