Gills on the Beds

Bank fished on the Nolichukey back waters for about 2 hours this evening. Caught 22 with 6-7 keepers. Biggest was 8".

Started with the heavily salted shrimp I had read about on here. The 8" was caught on the shrimp, but it was mostly slow using the shrimp. Didn't have crickets on hand. :( Switched to crawlers and the bite was much better.

Saw lots of monster gills chasing away smaller gills in about 2 FOW. Could not get them to hit. I was just pitching the entire time. No room for casting or cranking anything.

Hit the same spot today at 3pm. Fished until 6:30pm.

Went to Wal-Mart first for crickets and they only had one cup. I'm seriously doubting the supposed 50 crickets in these cups. Anyway, noticed a guy grab a cup of Wax Worms, which I've never used. I recalled these being mentioned here before. I grabbed two cups of the Wax Worms just in case. Started out with crickets for the first 20 minutes, then didn't touch them again after switching to the wax worms. I was really surprised by these wax worms. It was more about quantity than quality, but I caught 55 gills and one 7.5" cracker.

The big males were still there chasing away the little guys, but they wouldn't hit anything. Every time I saw one, I would pitch well beyond him and slowly bring it back to him and they showed no interest at all.

Not sure why the bulls are acting this way.

Great report ! Them Sure is some good eating

Hit the spot again today from 6:45pm-8:15pm.

Caught 37 with 22 keepers in the 7" range. The keepers finally got hungry! :) Had a few crickets, but mostly used wax worms. Biggest catch was a Cracker measuring 8.25".

Tried again today. Caught 61, with maybe 6 keepers. :(

Ugly day.