Dried Crickets

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03-17-2010, 05:27 PM
Duckbill

Dried Crickets

I'm going to be taking my 5 & 9 yr old kids fishing this spring quite a bit. I good friend of mine swears by dried crickets. He says they work just as well as live ones. It would make life a lot easier for me if the kids could use the dry ones. Anybody have much experience with them, good or bad?

Thanks
03-17-2010, 06:36 PM
PBUG2009

never seen them anywhere
03-17-2010, 06:57 PM
Locator79

Pretty hard to beat live bait!!
03-17-2010, 06:58 PM
slickwater1

live bait is have the fun for youngsters.
03-17-2010, 07:03 PM
GCD

Dried/preserved bait ain't worth diddly squat!!!... it don't stank the same, and it don't wiggle!

Buy a pack of dried and a tube of live ones and see which ones perform the best.
03-17-2010, 07:50 PM
Fishtaco

Three fishermen and one tube of crickets? And two of them are kids?

Better get two tubes. I can use a half tube all by myself just missing bites. :D
03-17-2010, 07:50 PM
Greg Holt

Go to timbuktuoutdoors.com they have them and others I have never used them but I think I`ll give them a try.
03-17-2010, 08:42 PM
BamaMan

If I where taking my 5 & 9 yr old kids fishing this spring. I would get two tubes of live crickets. Forget the dried ones you will have some of them later in the day, you can try the dead ones. But they don't work good. Now to make life a lot easier I would NOT fish!!! All I would do is keep them two kids hooks baited up with crickets and when they caught a fish take it off and bait up there hook again. You may have to cast also for the 5 yr old. Fishing is something a kid will never forget. Good luck!!!
03-17-2010, 09:22 PM
jaxsprat

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg Holt

Go to timbuktuoutdoors.com they have them and others I have never used them but I think I`ll give them a try.

I tried the crickets last year with 7 of my grandkids they don't work worth a hoot. It says Fischer' s choice on the can. neither did their can of wax worms work, yet real wax worms,red worms,& minnows were getting fish. The kids were all bank fishing right in a row and every so often I would switch baits around between the kids. Since many of the bluegill hits came in 1-2 foot of water I dumped the 1/2 can of crickets in the water they floated for a while then sank and not one gill went for them. never again:mad:
03-17-2010, 09:38 PM
deathb4disco

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaxsprat

I tried the crickets last year with 7 of my grandkids they don't work worth a hoot. It says Fischer' s choice on the can.

I figured that if Roland Martin was plugging them, they had to be crap.
03-18-2010, 03:57 PM
Duckbill

Quote:

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

I figured that if Roland Martin was plugging them, they had to be crap.

Ain't that the truth :rolleyes:
03-20-2010, 12:38 PM
queyit

http://www.fisherschoicebait.com/

I do a lot of panfishing and decided last year after seeing them on Roland Martin's show to try them. I had little success using the wax worms they sell. Now they are in my boat for emergency purpose. Best result is when tipping hair jig with them. Fish seem to draw into that ExcitaScent they are coated in but not enough to bite consistently. Just my two cents...can't beat the tube of live crickets...bream, small catfish, goos, even crappie at times.