Kept 43 huge shell crackers today along with 5 nice cats up to about 16 lbs.
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Kept 43 huge shell crackers today along with 5 nice cats up to about 16 lbs.
Have any pictures of the shell cracker beds themselves? I can't seem to visual tell the difference in blue gill and shell cracker bedsQuote:
Originally Posted by cwright
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No. They look about the same to me. I seem to catch the shell crackers a little deeper than the bluegills on the. Ed. These were about 3.5 deep on the beds.
Nothing like wrestling those all day...Can't wait til it starts up here.
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Bait or Jigs? Some great looking fish.
Worms on the bottom
looking like a real fun time to me .....do yawl drop shot them worms for the red ear ? I have in past and done very well on them that way ...
I just had a hook, half a red worm and large split shot about a foot up.
I drop shot for them. Cast out with a #6 long shank hook about 12-18" above the bottom weight. Casting out and working it back creates an angle that has the worm closer to the bottom than it would appear.
The water I fish is littered with downed timber/logs, and plenty of weeds etc. With the drop shot I try to ride over the junk with the hook/worm.