Bluegills and Shellcracker

[eep]

Anybody ever caught any huge bluegill or shellcracker while fishing for crappie?

[frank lawhead]

fishin in fl. in the winter its not uncommon to catch them

they are huge ,but not very many

[dsacalaitman]

we do in mid spring just after crappie spawn we getm

[CrappieLips]

We've hadum hit pretty good size minnows while fishin for crappie Good size ones to.
they have't to be to swallow a 3" minnow

[roybuoy]

It happens pretty often in the spring time .

[gcromer]

eep
We catch them together in the winter time. Here are a few pictures of some that were caught in Dec, Jan, and Feb, all on jigs.

Gerald
Cayce, SC

[crappieseeker]

I've even caught big bream while bass fishing. Was fishing a tournament on the TN river one time and was catching bream on a 7.5 inch culprit worm. Didn't win the tournament. Wish they had let me count those bream lol

[CrappiePappy]

I'll catch other species of fish, while Crappie fishing ... but, generally it won't be a big Bluegill or Shellcracker. I have caught Smallmouth up to 4lbs, a Rainbow Trout, Channel Cats & Flatheads, Hybrid Stripers, White Bass & Yellow Bass, a Tiger Muskie (12lbs), Drum, Warmouth, Yellow Perch, Herring Shad, and various others. Most of the lakes I fish just don't seem to grow Bluegill & Shellcracker, to any size ... or else I've just never run into them ...LOL!! ............. cp

[rango]

eep
We catch them together in the winter time. Here are a few pictures of some that were caught in Dec, Jan, and Feb, all on jigs.

Gerald
Cayce, SC

gerald, did you catch them fish on marion??

[gcromer]

Hi Rango

Almost, they came out of the upper Santee swamp. About 10-12 miles up the river from Low Falls. You can go through the swamp and come out at Sparkleberry Landing if you know how. I've never done it..

Those are just a few pictures of my normal Nov. to March fishing in the swamp. With Dec and Jan usually being the better months "IF" we don't have a rainy winter.

I just noticed in the paper today that the water is about 4 feet below normal and 6 feet below the flood stage,[banks]. It might be hard to get into the swamp now, but I'm going to see if I can break away in a few days and go to just check it out.

Gerald