Thread: what will all this rain do to red ear fishing ?

Bluegill don't move far. If it swells and you get current, just look for places of little to now current, and they'll be stacked up. In high water on my river, they stay on the shelf as I call it: out of the main river channel, on shallow, flooded timber runs. I call it shelf fishing. I guess most people would call it a flat. It's more of a raised flat, a shelf.

I noticed that on a lake I fish on in MS, Choctaw lake, the bream have a bed near a cove and the spillway and its on an elevated flat. When I first saw it I thought it was an odd place to have a bed because of the spillway current, but I guess since the flat is elevated it protects them from the current.