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check out these videos for some tips :Originally Posted by no luck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UtaG2wvg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_qtmMOZcA
Redear Sunfish, also known as "Shellcrackers" ... eat snails, small mussels, crawdads, aquatic insects, worms, small fish, and fish eggs. They spawn deeper & generally stay deeper than Bluegill, being more of a bottom feeding, bottom oriented fish.
I catch them using a 1/16oz jighead (black) with a piece of nightcrawler (the dark end) threaded on the hook, just big enough to cover the hook. I bounce it along the bottom of known Redear haunts, and the bite is usually just the fish swimming off with the bait ... and not the rat-a-tat-tat pecking bite of a Bluegill. I've also been known to fish for them with a regular hook/sinker rig under a float. Again, they seem to always just swim off with the bait, pulling the float along across the top of the water or just under the surface.
Now .... that's with minimal experience fishing specifically for Redear, so the bait and bite may differ for others. And that experience was on only one lake, and a few years ago. And it was not the lake in the videos ... just so you know.
... cp
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