Thread: How big do the redear get on Barkley and Ky Lake?

Originally Posted by BIGBADDAD

Well, mrdux can really catch them redears!!!!! Showed me his best spot and WAH LAH......Real bigun's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Sorry dux, but I had to!

Hey, it takes a huge amount of fishing ability to catch a quality fish like that one!

Story on that fish; I had cast into an area we had been catching some quality gills but no redears. I was using a red Eagle Claw panfish hook with a red worm on a drop shot rig. I got a hit close to the bank and was just holding pressure on it when I almost got the rod jerked out of my hands. The line started screaming down the bank with the drag slipping then it was gone. I reeled it in and this little guy was on. Apparently he hit initially then something sizable hit him and took off. It was definitely a juvy redear and it was released alive.

Originally Posted by mrdux

Hey, it takes a huge amount of fishing ability to catch a quality fish like that one!

Story on that fish; I had cast into an area we had been catching some quality gills but no redears. I was using a red Eagle Claw panfish hook with a red worm on a drop shot rig. I got a hit close to the bank and was just holding pressure on it when I almost got the rod jerked out of my hands. The line started screaming down the bank with the drag slipping then it was gone. I reeled it in and this little guy was on. Apparently he hit initially then something sizable hit him and took off. It was definitely a juvy redear and it was released alive.

Looks more like a juvy Green Sunfish, to me, Dux !! LOL !!

... cp

Looks like prime flathead bait to me..

I am still trying to catch one that is over one pound. I caught a full big ones over the last year but none over a pound but guys that I was with caught a lot over a pound. I have personally seen 20 or 30 over a pound but none in the 2 pound range. I got space on my wall ready soon hopefully.

People actually fish for redear? I usually throw them back.

Big Redear can be fun to catch. I like catching a lot of different species of fish, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, White Bass, Crappie, Bluegill, Redear, Catfish, etc.

I only fish for fish that I like to eat so I mostly chase buffalo, carp and red horse. Those red ear are too small and don't taste very good.