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I fish for redbreast on the famous Ogeechee river. One of the best baits you can buy for redbreast is a Spin Dandy!! You will need to find the ones with the gold head and spinner. My best 2 colors are black/yellow, and brown/yellow/orange- also called crawfish. hope this helps.
I don't think you will get much good info from the book just fun reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothlures
We call them redears or shellcrackers in Ohio. I catch them mainly in the springtime with a waxworm or redworm on a small fly under an adjust-a-bubble bobber.
Ah, well I don't mind a good fishing book.
Slab_Slayer - Where do you find them at? I searched online at a lot of different sites and only found them on the makers website.
I buy mine at a local tackle shop
Oh ok. I'll check around. Would a hand tied jig on a normal beetle spin be about the same thing?
Opie, the redear/shellcracker is actually a different species than the redbreast.
Shellcracker - http://www.angelfire.com/ia3/fishing/redearsunfish.htm
Redbreast - http://www.angelfire.com/ia3/fishing...astsunfish.htm
just wanted to throw in my two cents.grew up fishing in two totally types of fishing environments.one klake fishing with one grandpa and the other was river fishing with the other papa but the rivers werent quite as wide in south georgia.but the way he fished for red bellies was with a bream buster and as close to the bottom as possible with a cricket and occasionally a beatle spin as the one shown earlier.hard headed me fished more in the lake with the other around the banks and edges stumps and so forth.but in the river he always cuught the biggest and the most fishing the middle of the river and on the bottom.didnt care anything about catching bluegills or red eye bream.red bellies was the only thing worth going in the livewell.silly me i could catch the three fingers all day but the middle bottom with a cricket was the ticket.hope this helps
Have worn out River RedBreast on a 2 inch Cabelas Black Double Tail Grub with Red Legs fished on 4lbs line on a 1/32oz black ballhead jig by itself or on the tiniest single gold spinner blade you can find!!! Try to throw toward the banks which have an abrupt depth change from shallow to deep water and any type of standing vegetation along those banks. Hope this helps!!!! :)
Should work, mine does!!Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothlures
Smooth, I fished the little pee dee about five times when I was stationed at Shaw AFB in Sumter. Always caught a mess of redbreast, except for one time. The water got way up in the trees and the fish were very difficult to find. I fish with this lure 90% of the time in any river.
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You can find it here.
http://www.ispikeit.com/shop/ENLARGE.ASP?id=1261
I get mine at Wal-Mart. They get them in occassionally in a Riverside cardboard box that has a bunch of panfish plastics in it.
There are alot of other good colors also. Rig it on a 1/32 oz plain lead jighead. Cast to structure let it sink, bounce it off the bottom back to the boat. Redbreast love em. So do bass, crappie, bluegill, even caught a few cats on em. Its a river fish's main diet.