Shellcrackers on bed 5/13/2018

Dr Phil and I hit the shellcracker beds this morning for a couple of hours or so and had a really good productive time. We kept 27 Red eared sunfish aka Shellcrackers, and 8 bluegills all over 8" and up to a little over 10" on the crackers. We used Bobby Garland Itty Bitty Slab Slayers on 1/48 oz jigs and the hot colors were Black, and Pink Lemonade. All fish that were under 8" were released to grow up and there were several.

My wife, Wanda wants to hit them in the morning, but we won't keep any under 9". It wore me out cleaning 35 fish late this afternoon. Grin.

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Great job ! Gotta love the fight of those bulls! Glad you was able to get on em ! Hope you and Wanda have a great day in the morning!

I don't think there is much in life that beats a day on the water catching a mess of shellcrackers off the bed. I'm hoping to take my son in the morning here on Barkley and catch a few, too.

Nice job!

YOUR KILLING ME DK!!!

That's a very good day DK. Nice fish, and I sympathize on the cleaning. Somewhere around 10 for me and I have to step away for a bit.

I am with skeet ....somewhere around 15 and I want to be done ... lol nice fish

Good job

Awesome, I love to catch bream and shell crackers, congrats!

Great catch! 10-15 is our limit of keepers, too.