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| Welcome to KSALLINK'S outdoor web pages. We will provide up to date information on area lakes and rivers. We also want your fishing and hunting reports. We also would like to get your photos and be able to share them with all of our web site visitors. If you have any specific questions about outdoor equipment whether it be for fishing, boating or hunting, email us at the link for reports. If we feel it has general interest we will post the question and answer it on the web site. Thank you for visiting our website. Bob | |||
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Send us photos of your angling or hunting trophies. Photos should be in the jpeg format. We'll post them on our "trophy page" Use the address below to send us your reports and photos. Email us at :outdoors@adhelp.com Events Hunter Education classes.
March 22, 2012 April 19, 2012 Wichita, TBA (may change date to April 26) 1:30 pm CDT
June 21, 2012 Kansas City, TBA 1:30 pm CDT
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Bob's Best Bets
February 3, 2012 No safe ice reports at any Kansas reservoirs or state lakes. Glen Elder marina boat ramp open. Marion ramp open. Open ramps at other lakes are open for the most part on the wind and weather conditions. Wind has been moving ice around on lakes which can block a ramp so use caution. Trout fishing good at stocked areas with open waters. Other reports Outlets below reservoirs fair for various species. Some of larger farm pond are open with a few fish being caught.
January 5, 2012 It was one of the more interesting meetings of the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission here in Salina. The controversial issue of allowing crossbows during archery Deer season dominated most of the meeting time.
The Kansas Bowhunters Association showed up with an entourage that dominated the public input with a lot of selfish reasons for not allowing crossbows during the archery seasons in Kansas. Never did anyone from the KBA offer any actual legimate reasons to the
commissioners to deny using crossbows.
These representatives from the KBA seem to have their hearts in the right place but I am not so sure about their heads. It's always about them and how they are the great true Kansas Deer Hunters. After listening to their diatribe at 3 public meetings, I am sick of hearing how everyone can be like them. These self proclaimed he-men of the woods tell stories about their expertise with bows and say that anyone can do it. It's a lie because not everyone can be proficient with a regular bow and what's more, many folks don't even want to hunt that way. It's very probable that crossbows will be a legal means of taking Deer during the Kansas archery season. There might be a restriction on the age of the users. Currently the proposal before the KDWPT
Commissioners is for Crossbow users to be under 16 years of age or 55 and over.
This will be voted on at the March meeting of the commission in Topeka. By that time, it might be a urgent matter for the
commissioners. There should be several bills in the legislature that deal with legalizing crossbows during the archery Deer season.
Those in the know say that if the commissioners don't act on allowing crossbows, the lawmakers will act.
Dec 22, 2011 I get phone calls and in person inquires this time of year. One is from the avid ice anglers who are anxious to get out and drill some holes. The other is from the boaters who want to be able to launch their boats at the lakes.
Right now it looks good for the boaters to put on in the next week to ten days. That also means that the ice fishermen may have to wait or travel to the Dakotas or Minnesota.
Ice fishing is marginal in our area but usually we get enough safe ice for a couple weeks. Some years it can be around Christmas but most times, it's the first or second week of January.
Hard to predict from year to year but the best ice normally starts to form around Christmas. It takes several nights of temperatures around zero to put safe ice on the lakes. Safe ice to most ice fishermen is 6 inches or more with many prefering closer to ten so they can take a four wheeler. No temperatures even close to what it takes to put safe ice on the lakes have hit our area yet. The odds are that it will happen and probably about the first or second week of January. In the meantime, the boaters should have open boat ramps andbe able to access the brushpiles and channel breaks. Some ice fishermen who just can't wait will actually make a trip to the northern states and scratch that 'ice fishin' itch.
When the ice formed last year just enough to prohibit launching a boat, we headed to Oklahoma with friends. Last January we ice fished for Crappies at Kirwin and a couple days later, we caught some nice slabs from a boat at Kaw reservoir in Oklahoma.
We're looking forward to doing the same this year.
A new regulation regarding the use of wild caught baitfish was adopted by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism commission Tuesday December 6. F.Y.I
Public rifle and hand gun shooting range is being planned for Saline county. The county already has the land. The next meeting is scheduled for September 13th. If you are interested in getting involved, contact Captain Roger Soldan at the Saline county Sheriff's office. 826-6502 ext 148 or email roger.soldan@saline.org
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