Mission Lake is a reservoir in Kansas, near Brown 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.
Mission Lake is a reservoir in Brown County, Kansas. Mission Lake covers about 125 acres and holds about 1,070 acre-feet.
Mission Lake was made by holding back a river or creek, making the old channel, bends and quiet coves sensible places to begin.
Fish reported from Mission Lake include black crappie, bluegill, channel catfish, largemouth bass, and white crappie. Stocking records for Mission Lake also list sauger, though that does not mean those fish will be easy to catch on every trip.
For bass at Mission, fish weeds, wood and shade with a spinnerbait, jig or Texas-rigged worm for largemouth.
For panfish at Mission, use a small jig or minnow beside brush for crappie, and fish a worm, cricket or tiny jig near weeds for bluegill, redear or other sunfish.
For roaming fish at Mission, work a jig or small crankbait close to bottom for sauger.
For bottom fishing at Mission, put cut bait, a nightcrawler or prepared bait on bottom for channel catfish.
On a first trip to Mission, 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 Mission 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 Mission can bring fish back to windy points and banks, while winter calls for smaller baits fished slowly.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.