Cheney Reservoir is a reservoir in Kansas, near Reno County.
Stocking records show that the following fish or strains were stocked here. A historical stocking does not by itself prove that a self-sustaining population remains today.
Cheney Reservoir is a reservoir in Reno County, Kansas. Cheney Reservoir covers about 9,550 acres and holds about 167,070 acre-feet.
Cheney Reservoir is a broad, windswept water-supply lake on the North Fork Ninnescah River. It has few protected corners compared with many wooded Kansas reservoirs, so wind and moving shad play a big part in the fishing.
The reported fish at Cheney Reservoir include wiper, walleye, saugeye, black crappie, and white crappie.
Fish reported from Cheney Reservoir include black crappie, blue catfish, channel catfish, saugeye, walleye, white bass, white crappie, white perch, and wiper. Stocking records for Cheney Reservoir also list saugeye and walleye, though that does not mean those fish will be easy to catch on every trip.
For panfish at Cheney, use a small jig or minnow beside brush for crappie.
For roaming fish at Cheney, jig a minnow or troll a crankbait along points and deeper edges for walleye, and fish a jig, blade bait or crankbait near the old channel for saugeye, and follow shad with a spoon, jig or small crankbait for white bass, and use a shad-colored swimbait, spoon or trolling lure around open-water baitfish for wipers.
For bottom fishing at Cheney, use fresh cut shad on a strong bottom rig for blue catfish, and put cut bait, a nightcrawler or prepared bait on bottom for channel catfish.
At Cheney Reservoir, use a jig, crawler rig or crankbait along points and the old channel for walleye. Follow shad at Cheney Reservoir with a spoon, swimbait or crankbait for wiper. Fish a small jig or minnow at Cheney Reservoir beside brush, standing wood or a creek-channel edge for crappie. At Cheney Reservoir, use fresh cut shad on a strong bottom rig for blue catfish and fish cut bait, a nightcrawler or prepared bait for channel catfish.
On a first trip to Cheney, check incoming water, one bend in the old channel and a point near deep water with a moving lure, then slow down with a jig or worm where you get a bite.
Spring around Cheney is a good time to check warm coves and incoming water, and summer is a good time to fish shade, weeds and the first drop into deeper water. Fall around Cheney can bring fish back to windy points and banks, while winter calls for smaller baits fished slowly.
A medium spinning rod with 8- to 10-pound line handles most jigs, worms and small lures at Cheney, while a medium-heavy rod is better for bass jigs and heavier bottom rigs.
Those areas can gather shad and put walleye, white bass and wipers within reach of crankbaits, jigs and swimbaits.
At Cheney Reservoir, start with a shad-colored swimbait, spoon or crankbait at the depth where baitfish are moving.
At Cheney Reservoir, watch wind, water color, current and the depth of the first bite. Those clues show whether fish are using the windblown flats and open points or a nearby edge.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.