Thread: What would you do different?

For all the Slabsauce proponents. I was using SlabSauce. G Sauce to be specific.

These fish stack up where they were when it's really windy. When I found them last winter, I couldn't figure out how to keep the boat close to them without getting on them. The water is so clear, you can't run over them or they're gone. I got that handled now. These fish won't bite, or at least I can't catch them when the conditions are good. 2-3 foot waves and 20 mph wind make it tricky to say the least.

Next time I go try this particular spot, the conditions will be horrible again, and I'll have minnows and slip floats with me. Not sure how that's gonna work with heavy waves, but I'm gonna try it.

I have fished similar places and two things that have worked for me are a spoon and a float an jig but they usually don't take the float down it will tip up. Not a lot of spoon fishermen around anymore but it's deadly when they are not biting good.

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If they ant on that spot on calm cold conditions they want be far from it unless they take out chasing bait so I would spend some time checking out the area more thoroughly . And I have seen days they want hit the G sauce and some days they want touch the slab sauce and many days they will hit both or one or the other and some days neither! So I keep both close By!

Did you try a cast net?

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

I threw several different colors at them. I couldn't go lighter than a 16th ounce jig. If I can get on them like I did last year, I'm gonna catch a double limit. I could have last year but couldn't keep the boat on them. I figured out how to do that since last year. Today I had the boat where it needed to be without running over the top of them. They just didn't cooperate. When I found them last year, it was 37 degrees cloudy and drizzling rain on and off with a 20 mph west wind. Just like today, except much colder.

How did you keep the boat in the right position?


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Originally Posted by FurFlyin

I was spot locked and I would definitely have tried that, if I had some minnows. I ALMOST stopped and got some. Shoulda coulda woulda

Got it


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Sometimes you just have to keep trying different things and places till something works. I fished Neely Henry Monday and it took me 4-5 hours to finally find some willing to bite.

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Originally Posted by fishervet

How did you keep the boat in the right position?


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spot lock up wind and fish off the back of the boat. Not sure why it took me that long to think of something that simple. LOL

These fish stack up real close to a bridge and spot lock doesn’t work under the bridge. I found that out last year when I found them. About wrecked the boat finding that out.