Thread: best bait for bluegill

I have a local pond by my house that is LOADED with bluegill. I usually fish with the regular old night crawlers, but was looking for somthing a bit more potant. What do you reccomend? Somebody said that waxworms were good, but i dont know.

Thanks

panfish worms,grubs,corn,small crikets is what i use...all deadly bait for bluegills.

also seen people use bread or cheese...but doesn't stay on the hook well...

Any small grub is excellent. Wax worms and mealworms are very good, but maggots are my top bait. You can order all three at Grubco (see link above.)

I like to use an ultra light with a beetle spin. You can always add your other bait to the beetle if needed. A small piece of shrimp works good sometimes too.

In a series of very unscientific tests, I pit the beetle spin against my much beloved maggots. These tests occurred over a period of about a month and a half in very similar conditions. Although I caught fish on the beetle spin, the maggots out-produced them by as much as 10 or 12 to 1.

The beetle spin (and similar-sized artificials) will tend to attract only the bigger gills, but maggots will attract all sizes. The biggest I got on maggots (about 10") were actually slightly bigger than the ones I got on the beetle spin.

Get a tube of crickets and you will fill your bucket in no time.

open a wasp nest use the grubs out of it works good . as does can corn
crickets are tops also.

By far the best bait I've ever used is the brim reaper.

See the following link: www.blueribbonlures.com

Originally Posted by caseydrew

By far the best bait I've ever used is the brim reaper.

See the following link: www.blueribbonlures.com

I have to agree fully, I have been making my own for years when I saw these. Panfish go crazy when they see this lure!

I have to vote crickets as well. I also hook them through the chest/neck, and expose the hook just a little bit out the back end. My grandfather always hooked them through the tail, and out the neck, and it worked for him, too, but you gotta be more careful that way. But, for redears, I think worms fished right off the bottom, or tightlined are probably the best thing. I've caugh plenty of 'em on crickets, but worms seem to catch redears better for me for some reason.