Ky lake Redear ? anybody

[ted]

Do the redear and bluegill bed in the same beds, If so do they bed at the same time? I can find bluegill beds but they aint no redear in the mix. Ted

[M R Dux]

Turn around in the boat seat and cast the opposite direction from where you are catching bluegills. The redears will typically be deeper but close by. I did hear a report from last week where a couple of guys caught 28 redears in 6 inches of water. They could see the fish they were casting to! This was when the lakes were dropping fast. They should be settling down by now.

[Pegleg]

The Redears bed deeper than gills. They'll proly be in the same area just deeper if the deeper water has the same bottom makeup. Us oldtimers usually smell the "Shellcracker" beds. Smells kinda like watermellon to me.

["G"]

Ol Pegleg ( Glen) is telling you right. A few times I have seen them bed with the bluegills but usually they are in the closest deep water to those beds. They prefer red worms and the best way to fish them is to drop shot on the bottom.

[deathb4disco]

I did hear a report from last week where a couple of guys caught 28 redears in 6 inches of water.

I think the "deeper water" answer that the other guys have mentioned is pretty true, but I have also seen shellcrackers on beds so shallow that their backs were sticking out of the water.

[g31448]

All of the redear that I caught this year have been right up on the bank mixed in with the blluegills. This is the first year that I have seen this happen. If I did not get my cast just at the banks edge, I could not get a bite. The surface temp was 75 and I fished with nothing but worms and as G3 stated, drop shot. In previous years I caught the redears out from the bank in deeper water. I have not been able to do that this year, ears are always on the bank in shallow water and mixed with large gills. I guess it is because of all the rain and high water this year. Hope this helps.

[dvuks]

We were there last week. We cuaght more Redear than any other year. All were cuaght in shallow water with the Gills.

[bow tek]

I fish the lakes all of the time. I find them together alot. I tend to fish nothing but deeper beds most of the time. I pick alot of the bigger gills and crackers on deeper beds. I catch them mostly on bluegill bugs(jigs made here locally)