Honey Creek

[wily]

My wife, two boys (4 and 2), and I went to Grand on Memorial Day (Monday). We launched the boat at the state park ramp in honey creek about 1130 and left about 3. We never left the cove where the launch ramp is located. The White Bass were pretty easy pickings. I caught two casting but trolling natural colored shad raps w/in 100 feet of the bluff bank worked the best. The shad were thick all thru the cove.

The sun was hot so we anchored in the shade and fished with worms and bobbers for bluegill. The bluegill were small but numerous. My wife and boys got a lot of practice casting and setting the hook, so all in all we had a good time.

If you want to catch white bass then go to honey creek. I'm sure that if you spent some time in there you could load the boat.

[Phil Lilley]

I talked to a friend who talked to a friend (advid Spring River/Honey Creek/Elk River white bass angler) who said they tore up the whites Saturday in the Honey Creek area. No details but they caught whites on every cast practically.

Wily- glad you refreshed my memory. I wanted to post the report.

Now we have caught hybrids up in Elk starting about now into June before but haven't seemed to find them for several years now. May be this is the year for us!

[wily]

I just spoke to a friend of mine that camped in the sailboat bridge area last weekend. He said they caught quite a few whites, but that there were some really large whites that kept breaking them off. You might assume that they were hybrids because they catch a lot of white bass so their tackle is in pretty good shape. He said that they got a couple to the surface before they broke off and they looked to be 4 or 5 pounds.

[Phil Lilley]

Sounds like hybrids but big whites could do the same. I've fished off Bird Island in the past- evening into the night over light- and done very well on whites and crappie.