Hunting Redear

The. redear sunfish,also known as the shellcracker,is arguably one of the best fighting, best tasting, and hardest to find and catch throughout the season than any panfish you pursue. Fishing for redears has become an annual endeavor for me and a time during spring that I look forward to every year. Until the past few springs, I picked up a redear incidentally fishing for bluegills. I only began targeting redears a few years ago. I’ve learned a lot about fishing for redears but have only managed to extend my season by a few weeks. My mission was to find ways to locate and catch redears throughout the entire year and that has not happened. You’ll read below a few bits of redear information that’s very interesting.

Dragonfly Larvae, I believe, is one of the redear’s favorite foods as the water warms

Find The Food

The redear sunfish are know to eat snails and crawdads and can be their prey for most of the year. However, in the spring, when I do my redear fishing, the redear are up shallow and I feel prefer some of the great morsals, like the dragonfly emergent, available at this time. The more you know about what redear eat at your fishing hole will only help you hunt down the redear in your waters. It is my belief that some of the big redear that I catch in the spring are not spawning but instead are up shallow feeding on these emerging insects.