Good Setup for Bluegill?

[cyclones6]

I usually only fish bass, but I have a great pond in my neighborhood that is full of bluegill. I was wondering if this setup is good for northern Illinois bluegill. Its a yellow 1/16 jig head with a small plastic and pink Crappie nibble. The whole thing is a total of about 2 inches long.
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]Thank you in advance.

[deathb4disco]

I like smaller jigs for gills: 1/32 and 1/64 oz most of the time.

At the top of the page in this forum, there are two sticky threads on best baits/lures for bream. Check 'em out.

[DrJohn]

I like a #8 gold long shank hook, split shot and a bobber....cricket on the hook!!!

[brimeater]

1. Get some 1/80th ounce "grizzly jigs", tip with wax worm.
2. Long shank cricket hook, cricket, small split shot, bobber.
If you can't catch them with these two take up golf.

[njones]

1/64oz or 1/80oz kiptail jig tipped with waxie, cricket or crappie nibble under a small weighted float works best for me.

[steelslinger86]

I usually go with a small slip float, small split shot, small hook, and a waxie.

[Drum_Master]

I have run out of crickets when I was a kid, and caught gills on a shiny brass hook! There are not too picky, and if using live bait prefer worms over crickets because crickets don't stay on the hook well. Half a nightcrawler can catch several bream.

[T.C.]

I have run out of crickets when I was a kid, and caught gills on a shiny brass hook! There are not too picky, and if using live bait prefer worms over crickets because crickets don't stay on the hook well. Half a nightcrawler can catch several bream.

Stay on pretty good for me. Sometime even catch more than one fish from the same cricket. run hook through the butt and come out right under the crickets chin. Worms are messy and ya get ya hands all black, not a big deal but i would rather not have to wipe my hands on my pants all the time. I use redworms for crakcers cause they hit em better than crickets, but if not for that im either using crickets or if you can get em I also like grass shrimp (this may be a southern thing, dont know if you can get em all over)

[Festus_Haggen]

That's a good looking jig and twistertail, but I would downsize it to a 1/32 oz jig and a 1" or 1-1/2" body. You'll probably get a lot of short strikers on the 2" plastic.

[jigtosser]

You failed to tell us what tackle you are using. A bait casting reel with 20# line is not exactly the right equipment. Be sure you use light line with the small jig heads. I use 2 to 4 lb. line on a 4 1/2 ft UL rod. Good luck