Jewell State Fishing Lake
Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, & Tourism 785-545-3345
GPS Location: 39.69745 -98.28092
Location/Address:
Jewell, KS
Impoundment Type: State Fishing Lake
Normal Lake Level: 22 feet when full
Current Lake Level: 0.5 feet low
Lake Temperature: 73 degrees
* Largemouth, Smallmouth, Spotted Bass in Combination
** Striped Bass or Wiper in Combination
*** Walleye, Sauger or Saugeye in Combination
Fishing Report - Last Update: 5/18/2012
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Species
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Rating
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Size
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Baits, Method, & Location
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Walleye/Saugeye
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Fair
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10-20 inches
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Three nice saugeye from Jewell State Lake
We found decent numbers of these guys all around the lake while shocking in April. Most of them are legal size, but measure carefully as there are still a few under 15 inches. Anglers may catch them on crankbaits in 3-10 feet of water or drifting a jig/crawler along the bottom. Most of the fish seem to be hanging out in the upper half of the lake.
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Crappie
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Fair
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10-13 inches
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We did find some crappie hanging out near shore this spring while shocking. They are running 10-13 inches and look like they are in great shape, but there just aren't many of them in there now. We did see a few small crappie indicating there was some reproduction in 2011.
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Channel Catfish
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Slow
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11-25 inches
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Ten pound channel catfish from Jewell
Catfish can be caught throughout the spring out here. Traditional baits like nightcrawlers, shad sides, shad gizzards, and shrimp should all work. We found a good variety of sizes while netting, but the majority of the fish were the recently stocked 8-12 inchers.
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Bluegill
Green Sunfish
Redear Sunfish
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Excellent
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5-10 inches
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Nine inch redear sunfish and bluegill
There is a tremendous sunfish population in the lake right now with anglers having a chance to catch big bluegill, redear sunfish, green sunfish, and hybrid sunfish on the same trip. They can be caught on small spinners, jigs, and flies pretty much lake wide. Young anglers will have a good time catching them with a simple worm under a bobber.
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Largemouth Bass
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Good
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10-19 inches
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Two good bass from Jewell State Lake
There are very high numbers of 10-12 inch fish in the lake right now, but also a fair number of 15-19 inch fish with several fish up to 5 pounds collected this spring while shocking. The bass have been biting great in local farm ponds and things should be similar here. White and chartreuse spinnerbaits are hard to beat in the spring, but smaller baits like roadrunners and Panther Martins will also catch a fair amount of fish.
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General Comments
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Water temperature: 73 degrees
Water level: 0.5 feet low
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