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I have had good results with this simple lure I call a KISS Bug.
Tube jig body 1/32 once, # 8 hook, rubber hackle tails, From left to right painted body, leach yarn body, antron yarn body, and wool body.
The painted body held up the best followed by the wool body. The rubber tackle is very durable and no strands were missing after numerous attacks of small fish.Attachment 99181
Get you a fly rod and a couple bream killers. You'll get tired of cleaning em!
those small 2-3" hard grasshopper crankbaits at walmart work excellent
Illinois cannot go wrong with pink head white body 1/32 mini-mite!
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Originally Posted by tnvol
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Big ol' bull 'gills absolutely kill these things
Tom
I like the Beetle Spin bodies with a couple of legs inserted made out of silicone bass spinnerbait skirt material. If there's anywhere you all know to buy these premade I'l appreciate it because they're a pain in the butt to make very many at a time and threading the needle with thick silicone "thread".
Smaller sized crankbaits will pull some BIG panfish in if they're there, beetlespin bodies on a jighead, and of course live nightcrawlers/crickets/grasshoppers
Any of you guys down south ever think about applying some ice-fishing techniques? I'm just wondering and it is on my 'bucket list' to go south with my Plano box of ice-fishing jigs and see how I fare in the land of 2lb bluegill, :). I basically use the same methods year round for bluegill/panfish in Michigan/SW Ontario and it works well around the docks, in the weedbeds, deep or shallow, spring/summer/fall/winter. You can jig these plastics, drop-shot 'em, fish 'em under a slip-bobber, et ... they work.
The plastics I'm picturing are called Ice Mites, Candy Plastic Domination Fry and Little Atom. The Little Atom is the singular red plastic with a tail coming off the ball and you'll see the purple Firetiger teardrop jighead where I cut the tail off the Little Atom to place just the round head on the teardrop hook. Same concept as a 'Jensen Egg', but smaller, & it works wonders.
The jigheads are 5mm & made out of tungsten, so they're small but heavy & drop fast. They come 3mm - 8mm. At first I was skeptical that I would catch anything of size on such a small hook, but I've even landed a few decent size carp/sheephead with those hooks and the bluegill gobble 'em up.
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Kgalla, basically all of those jigs you mentioned are used here in the south as well as for ice fishing.