Hi Prairieschooner,

Its great to have you here. I am a transplanted Kansan, and have been here in Texas over 20 years, but still love the State of Kansas. (Texas is a wonderful place to live too.)

Be aware though, some of us Kansans or former Kansans may be better named "Windwagons." (Don't know if the non-Kansans have read enough Kansas history to know the story of the windwagon.)

At any rate, I have never been to the SE Kansas fish-in, but hope to go some day and get to meet some of the nice folks from Kansas, Western Missouri, and Northern Oklahoma.

I have never deliberately fished for carp, but did catch one on an olive and orange fished very slowly across the bottom, and think the carp took it for a crawdad. (Growing up in NW Kansas I never heard anyone call one a cray fish.)

Regards,

Gandolf