What are your favorite Bluegill and Shellcracker flies and lures?

Ranger77 · 03-01-2006, 04:37 PM

Beetle spins are by far my favorite bait. All colors work good, but personal favorite is orange w/ black strips. Its a bad fishing day if you can't get a bite with a beetle spin.

Crickets are my favorite live bait option.

**Crappisaurusrex** · 03-01-2006, 05:26 PM

I mainly fish on the bottom with 2 or 3 red worms or a whole night crawler. If you hook the crawler in the ring they stay on better. I try to stay away from the bank to avoid the lil ones. I usually fish anywhere from 18' to 25' for the bigger shellcrackers on a main point or a deep cove.

**wyliecoyote** · 03-01-2006, 05:46 PM

Crickets with a small cork on a bream buster. Funnest fishing I have ever done...

**dockfishin** · 03-01-2006, 06:21 PM

Mealworms and crickets on a drop shot rig with an ultralight spinning combo. Also an assortment of nymphs and poppers on a fly rod- depends on the mood the fish are in that day.

**bluegilln** · 03-01-2006, 07:25 PM

Best baits:

Bluegill = leeches
Shellcrackers = 1/3 nightcrawler

Write it in stone.

**dallasrogers** · 03-01-2006, 07:50 PM

hi yakll, we have a really neat oppoirtunity here in ga/sc line> the bream and shellcrackers really bunch up behind the clarkshill damn in the coldest weather and you can catch alot by using a wax worm and a cricket on the same hook.Dont know why but that combo does much better than anything else we have seen.My lady and i have honestly out fished others around us 3or4 to 1 consistantly like that. And dont be shy about changing depyhr either about half our really big bream came from 20 ft deep[ in 30=40ft of water in cold nasty weather!We were enjoying great fresh bream fish fries when most were waiting on spring to get here!

**Scales** · 03-01-2006, 08:31 PM

I agree with Dutch 100%. Slow rolling a beetle spin is hard to beat. Mepps Aglia in size 0 red and black with gold blades is also a killer. For live bait it's hard to beat a cricket. I sometimes put one on a beetle spin to help when they just want to nip at the bait.

**turkeyfootnc** · 03-01-2006, 09:54 PM

You can't go wrong with crickets. My dad used to go and pick catalpa worms off a tree when I was little, but I don't remember what time of year he went. I have since found somebody who sells catalpa wroms and I can't wait to use them.

**CrappiePappy** · 03-01-2006, 11:43 PM

definitely crickets, grasshoppers, waxworms, & earthworms ... in the live bait catagory. But, I also have had good success with stalk borer worms, especially in the late Summer.

For artificials - Pop-eye jigs, Roostertails, Roadrunners, Lisk "Lil Skunk" & "Pole Cat" lures, "No-Name" lure, and some small crankbaits. ........ cp

**Oyster** · 03-02-2006, 11:07 AM

In the spring when the bream are on the beds and hot as a two-dollar pistol, I love throwing a tandem rig on the fly rod. The top bug is a #6 popper with about 18 inches of leader tied to the hook. The bottom fly is a very slow sinking #8 black and white chenille bodied wet fly with short rubber legs. The top fly acts as a strike indicator as well as preventing the bottom fly from sinking to deep and getting hung up. This rig can be worked very slow and allowed to sit in the strike zone for an extended time, which you can not do with just a wet fly. Doubles are common.

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