Tyler Benedict

I'm a little late to this party. But, I've had a lot of fun fishing the rage craw on a shakey head for smallmouth in the river. Where I fish it's not very deep. I'm talking 2 to 4 feet and the occasional 5-10 foot hole. My setup is on a 6'6" ugly stick rod with a 6.4:1 abu garcia blackmax rod with 20lb power pro braid to a 18 inch fluorocarbon leader. I use a 1/8 oz ball style shakey head and a green pumpkin rage craw. I've learned that if I bite off about 1/4 inch off the rage craw that I seem to have better luck. I usually try to throw it in eddies and on the edge of faster current. The current basically does the work for you in most cases. Just one old rednecks' thoughts.