Thread: !!Flatheads Beware!!

Originally Posted by peterbiltwillie

You act like you know how to fish!

Oh I catch one every now and then... And I'm not looking for babies... I bait with live bluegills most folks would fillet!

Originally Posted by JigginPoleJoe

Oh I catch one every now and then... And I'm not looking for babies... I bait with live bluegills most folks would fillet!

I have people see my bait before and remark '' you got a good mess off fish!'' lol I like to use big Riceslicks as some call Green Sunfish. What size hooks you using?

These are 10/0 Mustad. I prefer 8/0 or 9/0. This was all the had. Just need enough to hold the bream.
The last I had was Gamagatsu "Did I spell it right"? They were 8 or 9/0 with 1/2 the shank of these, but were not stainless steel. They had a coating on them, when you would sharpen your hooks they would rust. But I loved how they were made!
If Bates gets some smaller ones in this morning I will try to do some swapping!

I can never find slicks unless I go pay $8 a pound! I never have been able to find them in the water. Bluegills will be a dime a dozen soon!

Originally Posted by JigginPoleJoe

These are 10/0 Mustad. I prefer 8/0 or 9/0. This was all the had. Just need enough to hold the bream.
The last I had was Gamagatsu "Did I spell it right"? They were 8 or 9/0 with 1/2 the shank of these, but were not stainless steel. They had a coating on them, when you would sharpen your hooks they would rust. But I loved how they were made!
If Bates gets some smaller ones in this morning I will try to do some swapping!

I can never find slicks unless I go pay $8 a pound! I never have been able to find them in the water. Bluegills will be a dime a dozen soon!

Most creeks and Fouche la Fave River are full of Slicks around here. I use mostly 5/0 or 6/0 Eagle claw hooks in stainless on limblines and noodles. Those hooks are very costly . I had a guy give me a an tangled old snag line full of 9/0 hooks. Have not tried them.
I have caught several 30 to 42 lbers on the smaller hooks. How big has your biggest been over there?

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Most creeks and Fouche la Fave River are full of Slicks around here. I use mostly 5/0 or 6/0 Eagle claw hooks in stainless on limblines and noodles. Those hooks are very costly . I had a guy give me a an tangled old snag line full of 9/0 hooks. Have not tried them.
I have caught several 30 to 42 lbers on the smaller hooks. How big has your biggest been over there?

About 56 pounds

I use 9/0 coated eagle claw wide gap circle hook, not for trotlines though. I jig log piles behind the dikes on Mississipi river with the biggest bream I can get. Last year I had a lot of trips messed because spent half the day looking for bait, so I started using a cast net. That helped alot, but now I've started trapping. I libe right on the Missouri/Arkansas border so i have to be careful, Missouri allows 5in bream, Arkansas only 4". In the process of building a tank to store 100
or so for a buffer.

This one came from Cane Creek Lake in November off of trotline. Weighed around 36 lbs using perch.

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