Little bank fishing with the new BG blue ice slab doctors

I had a chance to sneak of to Honeycomb this morning after checking on my boat and fish the causeway. Well i had a pleasant peaceful productive day. Started about 10am thought i would be lazy and float some minnows as i watched the boats drift around in the distance. I saw a site proven that if you want to fish it doesnt matter what kind of boat you use. I watched 5 boats clumped together all floating minnows and in the middle was a yellow i think Mastercraft ski boat anchored with poles sticking out every where. Ok well the minnow bite wasnt there for me so i decided to walk the bank casting a new Bobby Garland blue ice slab doctor after about 30 min i found them slow rolling it over some grass and the thump was on LOL. I didnt catch any monsters most fish were 12 inches with a couple of 13 and 14 inchers mixed in. I stayed until i thought my bladder was gonna bust hard to wee wee on the causeway no place to hide! LOL I left about 145pm with 20 in the basket caught 28 with 3 still swimming with my jigs in their mouth as my line would break trying to lift them up on the rocks i guess its time for some new mono lol. I will pick my boat up in the morning with mixed emotions after a month in the shop and finding more problems with my ole Force than i expected i purchased another 40 horse Force a year older for a 1000. Happy that i will get to try her out sometime in the morning not happy having to part with that much money LOL. Oh well you have to pay to play i hope everyone has a safe and blessed weekend and good fishing to those who will brave the wind

Nicely done. You just can't beat a 20 fish stringer with no gas tab. I am sure the motor tab hurt though. Ouch. For the record if I had to put a price on mine, they would cost something near $100 per pound of meat. Haha.

Nice stringer! Goin after some this mornin for the first time in 3 weeks.

good report.

Nice mess of slabs!

Nice fish!!

Nice mess of fish and thanks for the report.

Hello. Long time lurker, finally joined when I saw this thread. I was on Honeycomb today, too, and saw the yellow ski boat anchored among the other boats. Nice haul! I'd say you probably won Honeycomb today. I saw a LOT of non-catching going on.

I was on the water at about 6:15 am and started off at the boat houses closest to the deep water. There was a pile of boats in there fishing as well and I didn't see anybody having any luck to speak of. I worked my way towards the shallower water boathouses and at one boathouse got into a school of huge shad. I've never caught a shad before, much less a dozen of them, so that was new. Followed that up with a 10-lb drum that destroyed a brand new jig, broke my line, then had the courtesy to crap and bleed all over my boat. Good times. Unfortunately, I only had one white crappie on the day. Other than the shad, I couldn't get anything to even look at a minnow.

I've been a bass fisherman for 30 years and finally got burnt out on the rat race of it, and along with kids, decided to switch to crappie and panfish. Old habits die hard, though, and I keep catching myself fishing for crappie with a bass approach. Gotta break myself of that, I'm wasting too much time not fishing/thinking correctly. Think I'll go back to Elk River tomorrow, have had a lot of luck there the few times I've gone. Last weekend was brutal with the wind, though, so I'm hoping for a little more cooperation from Old Lady Nature.

Way to go and figure out the pattern working. Sometimes you can really clean up from the bank and it looks like you found them. Nice mess of fish!!