The Superior Express -

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has released the 2023 fishing report for Lovewell Lake. Highlights of that report follow:

Catfish- Good. The catfish population will again be very good in 2023 with all sizes of channel cats and flatheads available to anglers and quality sized blue catfish showing up in the sample. Lovewell ranks first in terms of channel catfish density (16”). The fall 2022 channel catfish total catch rate went from 9.2 in 2021 to 9.6. The biggest fish weighed 11.8 pounds with good numbers greater than 5 pounds collected.

Half of the fish were between 16 and 24 inch...