Since 2011, we have published 81,792 words about how, when, and where Midwest finesse anglers fished in November.
Many of these words were graced by the insights and logs of Rick Allen of Dallas, Texas; Terry Bivins of Lebo, Kansas; Norman Brown of Lewisville, Texas; Terry Claudell of Overland Park, Kansas; Steve Desch of Topeka, Kansas; Brent Frazee of Parkville, Missouri; Merit Goodman of Eudora, Kansas; Bob Gum of Kansas City, Kansas; Clyde Holscher of Topeka; Casey Kidder of Topeka; Pok-Chi Lau of Lawrence, Kansas; Ralph Manns of Rockwall, Texas; Greg Monahan of Lee’s Summit, Missouri; Travis Myers of Paw Paw, West Virginia; Preston Parks of Pittsboro, North Carolina; Mike Poe of Siler City, North Carolina; Marley Price of Ripley, Ohio; Steve Reideler of Denton, Texas; Chris Rohr of Overland Park; Walt Tegtmeier of Leawood, Kansas; John Thomas of Denton, Texas; Brian Waldman of Coatesville, Indiana; Brian Watson of Papillion, Nebraska; Dave Weroha of Kansas City, Kansas; and Josh White of Silk Hope, North Carolina. Some of these words were extracted from my logs about fishing in Kansas and Missouri that I began compiling in 2003.
These words primarily focus on the pursuit of largemouth bass, and that is because the shallow-water smallmouth bass fishing peters out in November across northeastern Kansas. The only exception to that occurs at one of northeastern Kansas’ power-plant reservoirs. Nevertheless, there are some informative and enlightening insights about pursuing smallmouth bass – as well as a few words about how, when, and where Midwest finesse anglers tangled with spotted bass.
Before 2011, we used to spend a lot of time simultaneously fishing for largemouth bass and temperate bass in northeastern Kansas and central Missouri during November, but the white bass population has declined so dramatically during the past five to seven years that we rarely pursue them.
But at several northeastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri reservoirs, we do spend some time doing what we call bass fishing for trout. When we pursued trout, we primarily employed a 2 1/2-inch Z-Man’s ZinkerZ affixed to a 1/15-ounce, a 1/16-ounce, a 1/20-ounce, or a 1/32-ounce mushroom-style jig. We used a variety of colors of the ZinkerZ: bubble gum, green pumpkin,…
