Thread: Artificial Bait

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.

Originally Posted by shipahoy41

Black or buggy color for soft plastic grubs but mostly use a wax worm.

Mike, try the gulp waxies. They've been working great for me this season. Haven't needed to buy live waxworms since i left Ky in April.

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