Lots of good tips and information here....thanks for sharing guys!
Fishing in gin clear water of quarries I can tell you another secret.
Gills and crappie look up an awful lot. Redear almost never look up. They track baits from eye level down mostly. They will pick up a bead head muddler off bottom. You can hold it 6 inches above their heads all day and unless a gill hits it never get a bite.
Lots of good tips and information here....thanks for sharing guys!
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Just wanted to share a picture of some we got this may from Ky lake. We fished bobbers and popeye jigs in 8ft water.
If you can get your bait past the reg. BG and to the bottom, give it two turns and see if they're there. Most big RES I catch are absolutely right on the bottom - especially this time of year. Remember, full moon is Aug 7., that might move them in a little.
Here in eastern,NC if you can find bonnett beds that have some decent water you can scorch them during the spawn.Post spawn they obviously move back out.Last Friday i sit in 13-18' water and put a hurtin' on em.No huge ones,but several that were pushing a pound.Red worms all the way for me,althoughI have seen them hit shrimp also.
A good ol boy that fished with an uncle of mine when I was growing up was a Shellcracker Expert If I have ever seen one. I have seen him fuss about catching a gill over a pound ... said he was cracker fishing not gill fishin and that was wasting his bait ... Except for bedding time he would all ways find the channel in these farm ponds that we fished a lot {in Alabama} .. and he would fish along the edge of it ... No depth finder .. feeling it out with his pole and line fishing on bottom .. the largest earth worms he could find (or wigglers if he could not get earth worms} Crawford was a real character.
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We fished the Trent and Neuse Rivers in eastern,NC last weekend and caught shellcrackers slam full of roe??? Go figure.Water temp was in the low to mid 80's everywhere and they were caught in shallow water.I know not all fish when the water gets upper 60's and up,but this seems awfully warm and late.Any thoughts or similar past results?