The luckestrike rick clunn trickster spinnerbait has been tweaked and refined to give you a dramatically different option for triggering reluctant bass. Your first thought might be swimbait, but dean designed the warmouth to be fished in a much different style. Fishing the dropshot rig for shellcrackerredear sunfish. Sep 24, 2010 even the most jaded angler still finds a spark of excitement when a fat bluegill, shellcracker, redbreast, green sunfish or any other pintsized member of the clan latches onto a bait or lure presented on a willowy cane pole or ultralight spinning rig. Please select colors and sizes above to check availability. Fishing for bluegill and shellcracker in the peak of the spawn is one of them. Spawning redear can easily attain sizes of 1 to 2 pounds in lakes with an. Saturday i found where some shellcrackers are starting to bed in a lake close by the house. Hector brito caught this worldrecord redear sunfish at lake havasu in 2014. My 5 yr old son and i went back yesterday to try thembut we only caught one. Clamshells the worlds finest fishing lure components. Of course, its a spinnerbait, with all the flash and thump that makes this bait style so effective, but the trickster leverages clunns continuing research into water displacement as a. Its like much warmwater fly fishing, handtohand combat. Our focus is to provide the best equipment for the outdoor anglers enthusiast.
Casting a tiny rebel minnow on ultralight gear with 2 or 4poundtest line is exciting. Though ive been tossing big baits for some time now, when i first held a bdb shellcracker in my hand more than a year and a half ago, i had a difficult time getting my mind around a fish actually being able to engulf this bait. November 9, 2017 may 26, 2019 2 years ago stingram. All about bass fishing,bream fishing,crappie fishing,crabbing,catfish fishing,redfish fishing,surf fishing,shark fishing,bluegill fishing,shellcracker fishing,fishing gadgets,fishing tackle and even bank fishing boats. Worth clamshells will accommodate most packaging needs for spoons, lures, or part applications. Keep in mind, if they run five feet, they usually wrap around something. Heres a quick guide to the best bait to use while fishing for the shellcracker. The sinking shellcracker has a very slow rate of fall through the water column. As the winter comes to a close and the days start getting longer, most anglers start getting the itch for the coming fishing season. The reason for my quandary is the relative round profile of this bait. Most of the time, they bed near or in the vegitation, but can also be found in open water.
Eta on the bill cracker is the last quarter of 2008. Sometimes that little movement will provoke a shellcracker to seize the worm. Big shellcracker redear sunfish fishing with 1 lb line. Its so much fun catching spawning bluegills on topwater. Anglers can cast a line from several free publicaccess fishing docks or launch a boat at one of the many ramps and marinas. Luckestrike rick clunn trickster spinnerbait bass pro shops. Strike king lures rage shellcracker soft lure 3 34 bodt. Redear sunfish to biologists, or chinquapin to louisiana anglers, these feisty fish typically favor deeper haunts, but when a. Here, the shell crackers are found close to the edges, in shallow water generaly less than 4, during the bedding time, which here, runs from the full moon in march, thru june.
All rage lures are designed with a specific purpose and are made with customized higrade plastics for superior action. Highland park fish camp where fishing is a tradition. Redear sunfish, also known as shellcracker, is one of the hardest fighting fish in fresh water. Fourtime bassmaster classic champion, rick clunn, has teamed up with luckestrike to help develop the luck e strike tickster spinnerbait. The fish hovering together tight in about 26, feet of water. Remember, this is a wood bait check out the detailing around the head. Shellcracker and bream fishing robert webster of hamlet, nc who has a camper at the lake tillery family campground, adjacent highway 2427, has been keeping a watch on the fishing conditions for shellcrackers and bream. For those who like to cover a lot of water quickly, more patience will be required when working this bait.
Top baits are mealworms, night crawlers, small crawfishimitation lures and small crappie jigs fished around docks and aquatic vegetation. Nichols lures the premier bass fishing lure manufacturing. Bass, largemouth bluegill bream, brim crappie black sunfish shellcracker. Mister twister product testimonials for sunfish shellcracker. Catching shellcrackers bluegill and bass fishing with ultralight. The black dog bait company was formed in the fall of 2006 and the shellcracker is their first offering in the big bait market. Ive been wanting to put together a bluegill shellcracker trip to lbl for the past three or so years and have never really had the time or money to do so. Big shellcracker redear sunfish fishing with 1 lb line and.
A floating wake bait version, and a sinking version. Topwater fishing lures perfect for freshwater or saltwater rose kuli spent many years to designs and develops products that make a real change to your fishing experience. Catching shellcracker bream is a lot of fun and they are good to eat, too. The landing of the lure attracts the fish, studies the lure and the twitch. I like to catch plenty of fish that fight hard, test my. All fishing buy, all about redear sunfish, habitats, fishing methods. Expert advice and quality equipment you need to enjoy your time on the water and catch the big one. Each lure in the rage tail series has a unique and exclusive tail design and is engineered like no other soft plastic bait. It may take few times dragging a carolina rig to get bit. And they are some of the best eating freshwater fish that swim. Find the perfect mix of activities, attractions when i find a bass on bed i cast it well past the bed and work the bait up to it slow.
The home of the world record redear sunfish may be quagga crazy. They will also refuse a popping bug, but will eat a sinking fly such as a beadhead nymph or a black knat. Each is designed with a specific purpose and uses customized higrade plastics for superior action. Redear seldom respond to floating fish food, as do bluegill. Most redear are caught during the spawning season by fishing with red worms on the bottom. Mepps product testimonials for sunfish shellcracker. If you show up with the bait and tackle, these fish. We fished the dropshot rig with nightcrawlers as bait and caught to many to put them all on this video.
Catching bream fish such as bluegills and redear sunfish shellcrackers isnt. Bedding time for bream in freshwater fishing liveabout. Shellcracker fishing tips sheelcracker fishing florida. Fishing for shellcrackers the 2018 catch mwoutdoors. The rage shellcracker is designed to be used with 40 to 60 hooks. Mar 29, 2019 redear seldom respond to floating fish food, as do bluegill. I get just as many hookups with sizes 14 or 16, but seldom land the fish due to pulloffs. Highland park fish camp is an authentic haven of old florida for the family that loves camping and who are nature lovers. Its superior design and proven performance on the water sets this bait apart from other wake baits. Clunn is a firm believer that a spinnerbaits blades need to displace water that is equivalent to the bulk of the spinnerbait, and ricks long drop blades achieve this proper water displacement.
Luck e stike rick clunn trickster spinnerbait 34 oz. You cast the lure over the bed, let the ripples fade away and give the lure a tiny twitch. Although we caught only a few fish on that trip since it was too early, it did bring back memories of how much fun bream fishing can be. This makes it easy to cast bait and wait for them to get it. Santeecooper lakes, south carolina lakes marion and moultrie have been wellknown shellcracker hotspots for decades, with 2 to 4pound specimens landed in this 170,000acre duallake system every year. I spend a lot of my lunch breaks fishing a small storm drain adjacent to a wooden dock behind my house, but the usual bass and bluegill targets took a backseat to the unexpected appearance of bedding shellcracker. We both wanted to go after them with our fly rods aka buggy whoppers as acey wall, deceased use to call my fly rod.
Theres another two or three weeks of prime spawning time too so grab a friend and head on out. Grab a shellcracker g2 today and see what the black dog baits can do for you. Florida lake tarpon and lake guntersville shellcrackers. Naff fishing articles page naff home page naff message board shellcracker, the bully of the shallows by. We work hard to ensure that each product we create provides the absolute best fishing experience to each of our customers. The cold weather continues to push the water temperatures down and the fish even deeper. See more ideas about saltwater lures, shell cracker and vinyl skirting. Rose kuli fishing lures lifelike bass lures multi jointed.
This seems to be the year that i finally get it all lined up. I hope you enjoyed the video, please leave a like if you did. The harper lurewinner of 2019 weekend legends instagram tournament names new lucky strike lure. Our quick skirts are wrapped around a core in a similar manner to the old rubber skirts but with bright stick resistant silicone. Catching bluegill and shellcracker on kentuckhy lake. Founded in 1964, strike king is an iconic fishing brand, offering wire baits, hard and soft plastic lures, terminal tackle, sunglasses, and related fishing accessories. Fishing lures have been around for as long, beginning as bone implements, moving to wooden and metal handcrafted lures in colonial and preindustrial times, and finally becoming todays massproduced metal and plastic lure styles. Robert put on a dropper sinking trailing lure in a black pattern and it wasnt long before he was catching shellcrackers and bream on the trailing hook. The best baits to use when fishing for shellcracker bream.
Now is the time to strike a trot to the lake and wet a hook for these babies. Robert and myself fished at several of his normal hot spots but the water was a little on the muddy side for fishing top water lures. And most of my shellcracker addict fishing buds dont want any recognition. Sometimes the shellcracker will take the worm and you wont know it until you start to draw it out the water. May 01, 2015 it was a rare opportunity that i couldnt waste. Highland park fish camp in deland, florida has some of the best large mouth bass, crappie and bluegill fishing in central florida. Searching for the shellcrackers the signs are there. We get word from black dog bait company that they are working on a billed version of this bait that can be retrieved slow or very fast and will probably prove even more deadly than the original sinking version. Many unique colors and patterns found only in these skirts. Shellcracker lakes that seem to be hot right now bluegill. It is a great bait for texas or carolina rigs as well as flipping and pitching. Jul 05, 2012 ive been fishing the suffolk lakes for the last few years and have had some success. Luckestrike has been a mainstay in the fishing industry for more than 45 years, producing a variety of quality lures that have filled tackle boxes all over the world. Netangler fishing lures spinnerbaits for bass fishing.
Jan 21, 2019 winter bluegill and shellcracker fishing 2019. Look for most of the fish in the channel bends off ledges with fast drops. Luckestrike believes that harder strikes and longer bites should be the rule, not the exception. I went fishing for shellcracker at clarks hill the week after easter last year. We are a small bass fishing lure manufacturing company that produces only the finest handpainted, handassembled baits. The bait falls perfectly horizontal at a rate of about one foot ever one and a half to two seconds. Even the most jaded angler still finds a spark of excitement when a fat bluegill, shellcracker, redbreast, green sunfish or any other pintsized member of the clan latches onto a bait or lure presented on a willowy cane pole or ultralight spinning rig. Ive been wanting to put together a bluegillshellcracker trip to lbl for the past three or so years and have never really had the time or money to do so.
The spring season is our busiest time of year, and we are. May 24, 2018 21 videos play all bluegill, shellcracker, and panfish fishing richard gene the fishing machine easy way to catch loads of worms for fishing duration. I do most of my fishing on lake okeechobee in south florida. Highland park fish camp sits on the norris dead river where visitors can access the st. Florida has more than 7,700 named lakes and ponds and over 10,000 miles of streams and rivers, all brimming with bream. The black dog small shell cracker g2 is nice as well and a little bit cheaper. Packages can also be taped or stapled for extra security. There is much speculation and scuttlebutt about shellcrackers, and i certainly dont represent myself as an expert. Its the first week of april and we just had a blue moon two full moons in the same month so the shellcrackers should be moving in to spawn. Bream is a local term throughout the southeast that includes a variety of deepbodied panfish belonging to the sunfish family. The color of the lure that was the most attractive to the pan fish was green, yellow and white, having a gold spinner. Bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bluegill bream, brim crappie sunfish shellcracker walleye. Weekend legends tournament serieswin the tournament and name a lure. Whats the better choice for big shellcracker, barkley or ky lake.
Good baits include worms, crickets and freshwater shrimp lightly weighted for a bottom presentation. Anglers can cast a line from several free publicaccess fishing docks or launch a boat at one of. These are clear virgin pvc enclosures with a bottom hinge and snap closure. Heres a quick guide to the best bait to use while fishing for the. Its rather easy to envision a bass or striper attacking a trout or minnow profiled. Luckestrike rick clunn trickster spinnerbait bass pro. Luckestrike rick clunn trickster spinnerbait tackle. Fishing is a sport that has been traced back tens of thousands of years.
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