Dried Crickets

**Duckbill** · 03-17-2010, 05:27 PM

I'm going to be taking my 5 & 9 yr old kids fishing this spring quite a bit. I good friend of mine swears by dried crickets. He says they work just as well as live ones. It would make life a lot easier for me if the kids could use the dry ones. Anybody have much experience with them, good or bad?

Thanks

**PBUG2009** · 03-17-2010, 06:36 PM

never seen them anywhere

**Locator79** · 03-17-2010, 06:57 PM

Pretty hard to beat live bait!!

**slickwater1** · 03-17-2010, 06:58 PM

live bait is have the fun for youngsters.

**GCD** · 03-17-2010, 07:03 PM

Dried/preserved bait ain't worth diddly squat!!!... it don't stank the same, and it don't wiggle!

Buy a pack of dried and a tube of live ones and see which ones perform the best.

**Fishtaco** · 03-17-2010, 07:50 PM

Three fishermen and one tube of crickets? And two of them are kids?

Better get two tubes. I can use a half tube all by myself just missing bites. :D

**Greg Holt** · 03-17-2010, 07:50 PM

Go to timbuktuoutdoors.com they have them and others I have never used them but I think I`ll give them a try.

**BamaMan** · 03-17-2010, 08:42 PM

If I where taking my 5 & 9 yr old kids fishing this spring. I would get two tubes of live crickets. Forget the dried ones you will have some of them later in the day, you can try the dead ones. But they don't work good. Now to make life a lot easier I would NOT fish!!! All I would do is keep them two kids hooks baited up with crickets and when they caught a fish take it off and bait up there hook again. You may have to cast also for the 5 yr old. Fishing is something a kid will never forget. Good luck!!!

**jaxsprat** · 03-17-2010, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by Greg Holt

Go to timbuktuoutdoors.com they have them and others I have never used them but I think I`ll give them a try.

I tried the crickets last year with 7 of my grandkids they don't work worth a hoot. It says Fischer' s choice on the can. neither did their can of wax worms work, yet real wax worms,red worms,& minnows were getting fish. The kids were all bank fishing right in a row and every so often I would switch baits around between the kids. Since many of the bluegill hits came in 1-2 foot of water I dumped the 1/2 can of crickets in the water they floated for a while then sank and not one gill went for them. never again

**deathb4disco** · 03-17-2010, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by jaxsprat

I tried the crickets last year with 7 of my grandkids they don't work worth a hoot. It says Fischer' s choice on the can.

I figured that if Roland Martin was plugging them, they had to be crap.

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