Sorry to hear that Mr. Cromer. I hope you feel better soon.
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Sorry to hear that Mr. Cromer. I hope you feel better soon.
Great job! I really enjoy using a cork and crickets for bream at the pond, but what technique do you guys use on a lake? Also do you fish laydowns like when crappie are spawning?
Yea, I'm with turkeyfootnc....want to eliminate some trial and error if you guys can enlighten us a little.:) Ive watched enough U-tube already but the waters they seem to be fishing is more like swamp water....which isnt around here.
I can't add anything for the Santee bream or crackers as I've never fished for them, but on Murray the crackers are on points. I'd imagine it'd be similar at Clarks Hill. My dad fishes for them a lot and he doesn't really hunt beds. He actually prefers scattered fish the week after the full moon. He fishes one rod with a red worm and fishes it very similar to bass fishing with a t-rigged worm. They are a pulling fish for sure. A great big crappie can't hold a candle to the fight a decent size cracker can put up!
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Two of my friends and I hired a guide last year to learn how he fished a big clear reservoir like Murray. Santee is a totally different environment and I was not sure how to find them on a clear reservoir.
The guide would pick points that dropped off to deep water and would anchor in 15 FOW and cast out several rods with redwooms or night crawlers. We fished all around the boat in depths of 5 to 20 feet.
Lake Murray has a healthy population of catfish of all types and the channel cats especially like to get in the act so you get a few of those in the mix.
So that is how he targeted the shelcrackers. Look for clam shells along the bottom and anchor and put out the rods.
Ray, how do you go about finding the clams on bottom? Confused?
Use use a rake and a lot of people get out of there boat and walk around bare footed to find them. You can use a piece of metal electrical pipe also to stab the bottom. Remember to look on points
On Murray you can see them on the bottom in shallow water.
We ease up the point till we can see bottom and then anchor back out in deeper water. Also most every time we pull anchor there are shells in the mud on the anchor. That is after the fact, but confirms that they are present.
None of this works at Santee by the way. The swamp is a totally different animal.