Brown State Fishing Lake
8 miles east and 1/4 mile north of Hiawatha
GPS Location: N39.84509 W95.37681
Location/Address:
Hiawatha, KS
Impoundment Type: State Fishing Lake
Surface Acres: 62 acres
Maximum Depth: 13 feet
Normal Lake Level: Full
| Fishing Population | Creel Limit | Min Length Limit |
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| Bluegill | ||
| Channel Catfish | 2 | 15 |
| Crappie | 20 | |
| Flathead Catfish | 5 | |
| Largemouth Bass | 5 | 13-18 slot |
| Redear Sunfish | ||
| Walleye | 2 | 18 |
** Striped Bass or Wiper in Combination
*** Walleye, Sauger or Saugeye in Combination
Fishing Report - Last Update: 6/14/2013
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Species |
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Baits, Method, & Location |
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Spring Fishing Opportunities |
Good |
For fishing tips or more current information provided by fishermen like yourself click Got to Fish and look for your lake. |
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Perry News Letter |
Good to Excellent |
4 pages (lots of pics) |
Twice a year I will be publishing a newsletter with Perry and other waters in my District. The newest issue is available now and features Perry and Sabetha City Lake west of Sabetha. If you would like the newsletter e-mailed to you click on Perry/Sabetha City Lake Newsletter and fill in the blanks. You can read it while you're getting your fishing equipment ready for spring! |
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Fair |
up to 1.0 lbs. |
Tube jig around the piers and the brush piles. When we electrofished we saw pretty good numbers of nice fish. |
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Fair-Good |
up to 0.4 lbs. |
Small hunk of worm or small spinner around the brush piles and along the weed edges, look for the muddy water between the bank and the curly leaf pondweed. |
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Fair-Good |
up to 10 lbs |
Fish feeders are in and feeding sinking feed at 7:30, 8 am, noon, 7 and 8 pm shad side, guts or livers around those fish feeders or off the piers. |
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Fair-Good |
up to 5 lbs. |
Plastics and spinner baits worked slow in that shallow warmer water on those sunny days. Fish are just about done spawning. Electrofished and put some pictures up. |
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Fair |
up to 0.5 lbs. |
Small hunk of worm or jig at the north end off the points. |
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General Comments |
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Don't have a father's day gift yet? Just take dear old Dad out fishing and spend some time with him! Lake is still murky! Stocked 200,000 walleye fry a few weeks ago will be a couple of years before these guys will be of eating size! May Electrofishing pictures, nice redear, crappie and largemouth bass, click on BrownState above the fishing report to see some of these fish. Click on the fish species and it will take you to the updated Fishing Forecast. |
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