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I just saw this on you tube. I love to fish for Bluegill and Maggots are the most popular and effective live bait. They are also great as a scent when tipping small soft plastics. There are several how to videos here. Choose the best practices and make your own container to harvest these larvae. Beats paying $4.00 a pop at the bait stores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-uVPF3sMnI
I do keep a small light on over my worm beds to keep them from crawling out. I will use shredded newspaper mixed with peat moss and miracle grow as their bedding. Once a week I feed mine yellow corn meal or bananas. Keep the bedding moist but not wet. They are always ready to go fishing when I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWZDVgMXm0
I've been raising red wiggles for over 2 years but the stupid things aren't big enough to fish with
Start feeding them yellow corn meal and shredded newspaper weekly. Once a month they get some banana slices and lettuce for desert. Keep the bedding damp but not wet. I keep a small 5 watt light on over them at all times so they do not try to escape and they can read the newspaper in bed. They reproduce rapidly. Mine reaches about three inches in about a month. I have had a steady supply through natural reproduction now well on 14 years and counting.Quote:
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I feed them cornmeal and vegetable scrapes I have bunches of worms they just so small it's hard to put on a hook
Use a smaller hook. I never use red wigglers, precisely because they are too big. Any grub bait is far better than worms, IMO.Quote:
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As Larry Dahlberg said, a bluegill has a mouth the size of a Cheerio.Quote:
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Smaller baits work better.
you should look into ice fishing jigs. they dont -have- to be used through the ice, but they are tailor-made for those spikes, maggots, mousies, chena bait, all that jazz. but in my personal experience, having seen several gills in my life over 12 inch, the truly huge ones have teeth and they prefer to eat minnows.
something my dad used to make me and my little brother do when we were kids, was go out and harvest as many goldenrod balls as we could find that didnt have a hole(bird beak) in them. the ball is caused by a small grub that lives inside that thing. when the gills are slow...get some goldenrod grubs out. be careful splitting them, dont cut yourself.
What kind of grubs are you talking about?Quote:
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Maggots, wax worms and meal worms.Quote:
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