lake barkley redear

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Comment by Leo Nguyen on April 20, 2015 at 11:22pm

Great looking cooler-o-fish.

Comment by Dwayne Braden on April 20, 2015 at 7:27pm

Nice!

Comment by Jim Gronaw on April 20, 2015 at 3:11pm

Any one of those would be a lifetime shellcracker for me...wow!

Comment by carl hendrix on April 20, 2015 at 3:02pm

real nice mess of gills there Troy!!  dont forget to come to the rendevou  in May!!

Comment by Steve B on April 20, 2015 at 12:17pm

Troy, I spent some time talking with a guy about catching Redears while on Kentucky Lake about 10 days ago.   He likes to drop shot a large fly tipped tipped with red worms on the "shell beds" in the lake, this should work on Barkley too.  He was actually crappie fishing some "shell beds" when I talked with him.  He was nice enough to give me a few of his hand tied flies to try out here in Nebraska.  

I have been catching quite a few redears in Nebraska in 2-4 ft of water in the last week as well, but a recent cold front has really slowed them down. 

Comment by Troy Dorman on April 20, 2015 at 10:11am

I caught these on bottom using redworms and a slip cork. These were caught on Thursday, the bite then turned off for Friday and Saturday. These fish were a bit early IMO, give it two weeks or three weeks and it should be very good. These were in about 4ft of water.

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on April 20, 2015 at 8:11am

Great looking Red Ears Tony !!!!

Comment by Steve B on April 20, 2015 at 8:01am

Troy, red worms on a drop shot over shell beds? 

Comment by Slip Sinker on April 20, 2015 at 6:02am

very nice fish Troy

How did you catch them?

Comment by dick tabbert on April 20, 2015 at 5:39am

Awesome looking fish Troy.