Anything one inch that has black or brown that looks buggy.. tip with waxies.
Otherwise use something chartreuse. Color to attract. Waxies for scent. Slow your roll and fish slower.
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Anything one inch that has black or brown that looks buggy.. tip with waxies.
Otherwise use something chartreuse. Color to attract. Waxies for scent. Slow your roll and fish slower.
Solid black, water melon/red flake. Black/orange . Several yrs. Ago i went into the bait shop and bought a large box (egg crate)of slider one inch slider grubs . He was no longer going to stock the whole line . Gave 100 dollars for the box and about 200 small spinners . Saw someone on here a short while back talking about using without a spinner , man werer they right . Used the spinners for yrs . And caught tons of bream /bass but without the spinner the slower fall is awesome .
I caught about 50 in around an hour and 30 minutes on Gulp! waxies in the natural color.
Black little plastic crickets with black jig head. Works good for me
Color....chartreuse/black in combo.....
Black or buggy color for soft plastic grubs but mostly use a wax worm.
Most of my sunnies are taken while fishing crappies, which recently has required very tiny jigs with pearl tails a color that sunnies don't especially attack.
The hottest baits I have found for sunnies directly is the one inch black GULP alive leech. That also works best on the slowest possible settle to reach the fish and IMO a hook no larger than size 8 or they will nibble around it, unless you have both very large sunnies with no dinks around and a strong bite in the first place. The GULP waxies come in a close second, tend to be stolen less and so are cheaper. The 1 inch GULP Alive minnows are a very close third place, but also get stolen or beaten up a whole lot quicker than the GULP Waxies.
I have the best results using black twister tails tubes and maribou jigs. Small in-line spinners (Mepps, Rooster Tails, and Panther Martin are my favorites) in black/gold blade, white/silver blade chartreuse with either gold or silver blade. Also try tiny-size spoons in shiny gold or silver. Another bait that has produced some big 'gills is the Rebel Teeny Wee Craw and Crickhopper. Dry flies and poppers are a blast!
Tom
are you rigging the gulp minnows on a bait hook?