Whats everyones #1 bream bait live or artificial?
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Whats everyones #1 bream bait live or artificial?
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Crickets
grass shrimp.....bluegill,shell crackers and specks,even a few cats and bass......
I like a 1/16 ounce popeye jig and wax worm combo.
Cricket
Small minnows.
I just had a great run of over 200 bluegills in a little over 3 hours using live night crawlers on Tuesday this week. I cut into small pieces and use a #8 hook with a drop shot 6-10" from bottom using 4 lb test on an ultra light rod and reel. Caught in 4-10' of water close to a bulkhead. Wind was blowing the bait to this one spot and I really killed em!
Of course I threw some artificial out and snagged a few but the majority were caught on worms. I could cast a couple of times and get one but if i lowered a worm I got a bite every time. Got all sizes and a few " large hand size"! It's fun also because you catch the occasional bass or cat passing by. I have pictures but my phone got wet and it's being repaired. Will post when I get it back. (It rained hard that night here in Texas as usual).
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Gills like spiders and I like to make my own. Whatever will fill the bucket works for me.
Earthworms. Then crickets.
Yesterday I discovered a hornets nest on the soffit of our house. Washed it down with water hose, cleaned off the live hornets, then placed into a container.
Removed the capped cells, and the larva within. Shell Cracker, warmouth, bluegill. Can't beat fresh meat and cleaning out the pests.
Crickets. Waxworms and 1/64 oz. jigs a distant second, although both can be just as good on certain days.
Here's all those bluegill I landed on night crawlers tuesday...
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Crappie nibbles by far, Use a 1/64th jig head with a bright nibble I like pink, yellow & Chartruse. They are as good as any worm.
Even work through the ice.Quote:
Originally Posted by trypman1
Took my 7 yr old granddaughter yesterday and caught them on raw salted shrimp pieces.On her first two cast she nailed em. After that she found splashing her feet off the side of the boat was lots more fun but we had a blast.I might add it was her first boating trip.
Berkley Honeyworms (55) to a jar 6-7 fish per worm or you can half them and catch 12 to a worm, will outfish a cricket and will fish right with a live maggot (spike), now that is saying alot. No hits put a new one on, the powerbait has faded. Will catch anything trout, panfish, catfish, bass. Can slide a jar in your pocket and your ready to go, try this I promise you will not be disappointed, tried all the other jar stuff and this one puts them all to shame. Comes in red,yellow and natural white. I personally like the natural white.
I have to disagree with you on that. Maggots are better than dynamite. They're "electro-fishing for the poor man". :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Countrytime
Probably should have said almost right with and knew I would draw a response from ya lol, it is hard to beat maggots and wasp larvae, but it is the best artificial you will find, if someone has stumbled on another please chime in, I want to know about it.
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Originally Posted by Countrytime
My dad would catch in the branches in the spring what they called a penny winkle, he said they were killer on panfish as well. It was a fly larvae. I never fished with them personally, but the old timers swore by them.
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These spiders work for me.
i like em
How do yall store your shrimp. In a plastic bag in the frig. or you don't keep it in the frig. after you salt it.
After salting bag in freezer for long periods or frig for short term.
mealworms and butterworms
Honey worms,I have caught copious amounts of gills,many on the same worm,a small jar last all season I not longer.
Crickets.
Jigs and Crappie nibbles have always been my go to, as I stated earlier. BUT, I had to try the salad shrimp trick, I soaked in saltwater for 2 days, cut up in pieces and tried them on a 1/64th black jig, They really did great! I did not see if they were lasting any longer than nibbles, because the Gills were hitting them so quick, they do seem to stay on better when casting/ spinning. I will report more.
Shrimp do well with just a hook and w/wo shot weight.Dont need the jig.
Cook or raw shrimp?
Raw salted and dried slightly.
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Originally Posted by no luck
I know they love mealworms, waxworms, red wigglers and crickets. However..........................my favorite one is the one they are biting on the morning I am out there fishing. It is usually a wax worm or a red wiggler fished beneath a small teardrop jig. I raise my own red wigglers and refrigerate my waxworms so I always have something to start fishing with whenever I want to head to the lake. In summary my vote would be live.Quote:
Originally Posted by fe1
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Originally Posted by deathb4disco
I've fished for sunfish all my life (50+ years). Artificial and various live baits. But being a Texan I had never tried maggots. After reading deathb4disco's affirmations
about this bait I ordered a few thousand to give them a good try over a few week period. My fishing buddy and I decided to be discrete about (maggots)
to any of the locals because it was exactly as deathb4disco said. Sorry, but nuclear weapons for bluegill can only take so much proliferation. :)
Read my lips. MAGGOTS ARE DEADLY ON SUNFISH. We are on our second year of using them and it's nothing but good. A clean, easy to use bait of high effectiveness
year around. Bluegill, redbreast, and cracker. #6 Owner Mosquito hook on a drop shot bottom rig or quill slip float rig. You want a needle sharp hook because the maggots are surprisingly
tough skinned and a not so sharp hook will tear them rather than pierce them. They stay on the hook very well often getting multiple fish before re-baiting with the usual
3 or 4 maggot load.
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Originally Posted by doctorxring
Glad they've worked out well for you! :biggrin
As I've said before, one of the great mysteries of my fishing life is why I can't walk into a bait shop and buy maggots. It's the #1 live bait all over Europe. You can walk into any English tackle shop and walk out with a gallon of maggots. (And I don't mean a gallon of sawdust with a couple hundred maggots mixed in. I mean a gallon of maggots.)
Incidentally, the first time I ever heard of maggots as bait was about twenty years ago in the old "Southern Outdoors" magazine. This guy was using them for trout, and was just slayin' 'em.
Let me tell you straight out bud, you are up at the top of the list of my "sunfish heroes". Right up there with the guys who
got me started in this 5 decades ago, my Dad and my grandfather. That's how much of an impact finding out about
this bait has made in my gill fishing. Have one on me !
:cheers2
I probably would not have given it much thought if you had not been so determined about your message on this.
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Originally Posted by doctorxring
What can I say? I'm a maggot evangelist! :biggrin
Right back at you! :cheers2
Crickets I have slaughtered the bream using nothing but crickets. If you fish them at the right depth you can limit out quick.
I read somewhere of a fellow obtaing a medium animal carcass,and hanging it over their favorite fishing spot,in this case he stung a rope across a pond and suspended the carcass oabove the water in the middle of the pond.After a few days of heat,the flys having layer eggs,hatched and began dropping maggots into the waiting mouths below.
I imagine one would need to position himself to avoid the small,but Dan,I bet I would work,but it's easier to buy them nowadays :puke:puke