thank you for the referral bob! same results in wisconsin for bluegills and crappies. the silverfish is a very effective little bait. the 1 1/2 inch, with a 1/16th oz jig head just DESTROYS big gills. something about bluegills and baits with a extra large jighead, they go off on it.

one time we were fishing walleyes on a lake we didnt know had nice gills in it. i was fishing with a 1/16 oz slowpoke with a big crawler hooked through the band, hitting the edge of a weedbed. all of a sudden, my bait got just freight-trained and when i set the hook, had nothing. crawler gone. so i do it again, same rig. hammered again, nothin. about the 5th time around, i snagged a 11 inch BULLgill through the shoulders. it was huge bluegills slamming that presentation, which was at least 12 inches long, hitting it right at the point where the crawler and hook met. i snagged another in the gills, and we decided to call it a day for walleyes, switching to our panfish stuff. never got a single bite, tried for a hour at least. went back to the walleye rig, hooked a 10 inch right in the mouth. crazy stuff, they wanted that huge rig...didnt want anything to do with 2" anything.