Bill & Ron & I had a great morning checking out the Mildale Farm Open House and fishing day. The park is somewhat hard to find, down between Gardner and Edgerton. It's a Johnson County property but not a public park, and I think about 700 acres. And you normally can't get in since it's by reservation only. It's used for big events, and things like weddings. But they open the various ponds for catch-and-release fishing on this open house day, and because of this, there's not much fishing pressure at all. The 3 of us ended up fishing 4 ponds primarily. The first one was a bust, but an employee there turned us on to a remote pond that ended up being a gold mine. I don't remember ever having such a great day of fishing on a pond. Once we got into them, we were catching many decent sized blue gill, largemouth bass, sunfish, and lots and lots of crappie. We were able to catch quite a few blue gill in the 8 - 11" range, largemouth in the 10 - 14" range, and crappie in the 10 - 13" range. And what a beautiful day too. We saw perhaps a dozen other fisherman, but with so much water there was no competition. This park also connects up to the future Little Bull Creek park, which will add several thousand acres. My camera I keep with me finally ran out of space (after almost 3 years of taking lots and lots of pictures). But I got some photos before that happened; see below.
Terry
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| One of the main houses at Mildale |
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| Main party barn |
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| Bill & Ron |
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| Ron |
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| Bill |
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