Fished Kaw yesterday and it was very difficult. When I got home I checked the lake lever info on the corps site and inflow to the lake had jumped up to 4500 cfs. I got a clue there was water flowing when the boat was getting dragged under the bridge with no wind. I started the day off fishing standing timber and brush in 25-35 FOW searching for the fish. I could see them on the finder but could not get them to bite, I used both jigs and minnows. I picked up one sand bass in 5 hours. In a final desperate act to avoid being skunked I went to Sarge bridge hoping to find the dinks I had caught there earlier in the year. I ended up finding fish around and underneath the schools of shad in 25-28 FOW, they were not hitting jigs so I went with a minnow only rig. 1/4 ounce sinker on the bottom single hook 12" above it. I would park right over the fish lower it till it hit the bottom reel up 2 feet. I used the spider rig set up with 3 poles. The bite, if you could call it that, was the fish putting the minnow in its mouth and just holding on to it. As the boat slowly moved, if I saw the angle of the line tilt as the boat moved away like I was snagged on the bottom, I would lift the rod to hook the fish. I tried striking as usual, but I was just yanking it out of their mouths. I ended up keeping 7 nice fish in the last hour, caught probably 15 total.