Thread: Strike King Bitsy Pond Minnow

Originally Posted by njones

Yep took my biggest gill a few years ago off the blue and green one. Like the Strike King Bitsy Pond Worms too. Also try Rapala F3 Original floating minnows.

And the Rapala Countdown Minnow (CD1). The CD1's absolutely slay the gills.

itll run straight if you reel it extremely like almost awkwardly slow i replaced the hooks to the next biggest size its much easier to get out plus you dont lose the bigger fish i caught a 6lb bass about a month ago on my 6 ft ultralight rod n reel man it was fun

I bought two from wally world yesterday and took them by a very public bank fishing spot today for a little after work unwind. Tried fishing a chartreuse jig with a spin and a blue/white jig with a spin and got nothing. Put on the blue back (sexy shad ?) bitsy minnow and caught a nice shellcracker on the third cast. A few cast later I got a nice buck bass, so on a slow day, the bait produced a few fish.

I was in Wal Mart today and found them there. I bought three different ones to try.
Cannot wait till I get to the lake to try them.

I caught several nice sized gills on the chartreuse Pond Minnow, also caught a crappie yesterday almost 14" on it.

I tried the Strike King itsy this morning. It needs to be tuned, but it still produced a nice big bluegill and a small bass. The small treble hooks are a pain though. Even when I wasn't fishing with it, it was getting hung on everything in the boat.
I look forward to using it more. I agree with the comments about it being good when the bite turns off. It's hard for me to put the fly rod down, but sometimes ya have to.:rolleyes:

I picked up one from Wally world as well. I've done ok with it so far bank fishing. I've pulled two 9 inch crappie, and about 5 7-9 inch gills on a very slow retrieve with it. I'm pretty pleased with the little guy.

They are one of my favorite baits for fishing farm ponds.