Thread: Catching Redbreast

I tried some 1/64 jigs with a #8 hooks in local ponds in the summer. With .5 to 1 inch tubes loaded with Berkley nibbles, got a hit most every cast! Can't wait for spring break and those Grandkids! If too windy, I add a small float which helps the casting. Be sure to take a small hook retriever, like the one one the handle on fishermans line clippers, for they swallow this lure. Good Luck

Ah, the redbreast sunfish. I caught the heck out of 'em years back in the New River around Blacksburg Virginia. Awesome, awesome fish. I miss 'em, they are mostly in Atlantic river drainages (althogh the New drains into the Ohio system).

My go to catch anything bait was a red 1/16 oz jighead with a fine wire #6 hook and a 2" white grub, sometimes with a beetle spin spinner. I remember catching them in areas with some slow current right along the weed edges. I didn't hardly eat fish then, but man I could have come home with quite a mess.

I caught everything from walleyes, green sunfish, bluegill, smallmouth, rock bass, muskie, tiger muskie, largemouth bass, KY bass, you name it, on that little jig combo. Best way to fish was to walk upstream a couple miles on the railroad track, then float slowly downstream in the lazy current in a belly boat.

Joe