depends at times i have great sucess tightlining on the bottom with worms and others with a cork but regardless iv never had luck with small jigs with bluegill it baffles me completely when i watch guys on YouTube using jigs for them
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depends at times i have great sucess tightlining on the bottom with worms and others with a cork but regardless iv never had luck with small jigs with bluegill it baffles me completely when i watch guys on YouTube using jigs for them
I have been fishing off the bank since November here in Eastern Tennessee (open waters no ice) and catching good numbers of gills with a few other species mixed in. The biggest change from my normal warm water patterns is size of my offerings. I have sized down from 1/32 to 1/48 and 1/64 jig heads and 1.5in baits or smaller. I am fishing shallow flowing waters of creek mouths, nothing over 5ft deep and around whatever cover is available to cast at but mostly mud and rock bottoms. Main lake temps are in the low 40’s. Here are some recycled pics from various dates this winter.
Dec 1st, Trout Magnet Bison Color on 1/64 head
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Dec 4th 1/48 head Bison Trout Magnet tipped with Berkeley Gulp Wax worm.
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Day after Christmas 1/48 head with Lunkerhunt Spade Grub tipped with Larvae.
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New Years Eve same bait as above, with a Crappie or two mixed in on the Trout Magnet.
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January 5th same baits and nice size for this particular lake.
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January 8th
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Then 2 weeks ago using a 1in Mayfly plastic bug.
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Last Friday after zero degree wind chills and frigid temps a nice gill on a Green Trout Magnet with red flake tipped with the Berkeley Wax worm.
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In the winter, down size baits and jig heads when fishing shallow. It has worked here and I hope this will help you in your pursuit of this scrappy little Panfish.
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It’s hard to beat a squirrel tail jig tipped with a small piece of red worm!
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Or a piece of night crawler in the winter months on a #6 hook with real small split shot !
These were from last saturday
i wish they sold wax worms here iv never used them or mealworms they look like theyd b amazing bait since dont come off a hook i think the greatest bait is catapla worms though fish love them but they are so hard to find!!!
even buying them onlines a pain foudn a site cost 6 dollars a bag but you have to atleast buy 4bags wat robbery
I use a 1/64 black jig with a nibble, catch all I want.
1/32 road runner with 1 inch black slider grub for casting . Black gnat for fly rod use . Meal worms / crickets on hand pole or bottom fishing .Attachment 329908Attachment 329909Attachment 329910Attachment 329911
Great pics, Coach!!
I catch more gills on mealworms,honey worms or artificial maggots.That said,I equally catch numerous gills on jigs,and beetle spins often tipped with worms I mentioned.When I was a kid,I would catch copious amounts of gills using a worm like burr growing around ponds.This burr resembled a chartreuse wooly bugger,boy did the gills hammer them.
I am very one dimensional in my fishing and rarely stray from using a Bison colored Trout Magnet. I use it for Gills........shell cracker......crappie.....trout.....smallmouth..... .white bass....KY bass. It has served me very well
Regards
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Originally Posted by Alphahawk
Yvon Chouinard, well-known fly fisherman and owner of Patagonia, once said, "The more you know, the less you need." ;)
He once spent an entire year fishing one fly pattern:
Yvon Chouinard: Lessons from a Simple Fly - Fly Fisherman
I can’t get a fish to bite those things to save my lifeQuote:
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Ran down to the local creek this morning while wife was in exercise class and did a quick bait challenge, and ended up on a tie, 4 gills for the Bison Colored Trout Magnet and 4 Gills for the Lunkerhunt Spade grub. Had only an hour to fish. Attachment 329996Attachment 329997Attachment 329998Attachment 329999Quote:
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All baits were tipped with the Berkeley Wax worm and sprayed with the Sauce. Main lake was chocolate soup.
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If you have a pet supply store or a bird feed supply they usually have wax worms and meal worms.Quote:
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can you use fly fishing lures for sunfish? i ot a few forma tackle box i was given they r pretty small id think theyd b great for bluegill but id have t add a weighted corkt cast it out as it has 0 weight on it i heard of guys using fly lures the one i got is like this
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on the left side is like the size types i have
Yes, but a fly rod is more fun than this:Quote:
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I prefer a Bandit 200 myself ! :-))))) Went Bass fishing and a Bream fight broke out!
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Usually takes a big buegill to hit a bass plug, even though I've hooked a few that weren't much bigger than the plug. We figured it was trying to mate. LOL
Fishing in a friend's pond I discover that an F03 floating Rapala will catch bream, crapie, bass and an unwanted mudfish that broke the plug. A really effective all around lure. It's about 2" long. Got it in a gift pack. Couldn't find locally after the mudfish episode so I had to order online.
BH, love your Pondtoon. If I had it to do over that's what I would have gotten.
Here's a picture of all 3 species caught on the same plug. We managed to get the mudfish(bowfin) off without bringing on board. They are a handful. Attachment 330082Attachment 330083Attachment 330084Quote:
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For artificial 1/64 jig head with Panfish magnet jig in root beer. For live bait, #8 cricket hook with cricket. For both styles, I use 4'6" UL rods from Wally World with Pflueger Trion reels. 2# test.
Cricket or redworm on #6 EC rotating hook is #1, followed by small hair or squirrel-tail jigs if no bait.
I like to use my vintage (old) Cardinal 4 reel on a 6' Eagle Claw light rod, or another old rig: UL Berkley Cherrywood rod with a Mitchell 408 I bought in the 70s. New rod is a StC 6' UL trout model with a JDM Daiwa Luvias reel, but that is really my trout rod. I like 2-4 lb line.
Had to sell my Pondtoon due to my stage 4 cancer, gotten bad enough I can't fish anymore. I just about cried when it pulled out of my driveway!Quote:
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1/32, 1/16 oz unpainted ballhead jig and too many lures to count.
Crappie Magnet (most colors)
https://i.imgur.com/SkogWqA.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/bBCyWlg.jpg?1https://i.imgur.com/ro4q14o.jpg
Beetle Spin (most plastics)
https://i.imgur.com/k9aCVJ3.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/qEQW7Mv.jpg?1
Spike tail (any brand, most colors)
https://i.imgur.com/7zNxg3s.jpg?3https://i.imgur.com/MXILxcs.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/W9VkEHo.jpg?2
hybrid lures (the parts of two lures fused together with a candle flame)
Claw from a bass lure added to a grub body
https://i.imgur.com/lmGEnLl.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/mn8k0jQ.jpg
Wacky rig mini-stick
https://i.imgur.com/zCTYkpx.jpg?2
https://i.imgur.com/nhY9Ebq.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ITEAQBs.jpg?1
Wacky grub bodies fused together
https://i.imgur.com/iOhnOL0.jpg?1
Make a curl tail into a straight tail - a big improvement!
https://i.imgur.com/fi2hqTZ.jpg?1
Berkley Power Grub (specific tail design)
https://i.imgur.com/zemsbJO.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/DyR52BC.jpg?3
Slider Worm (shortened)
https://i.imgur.com/gwFT38q.jpg?1https://i.imgur.com/UHQJmss.jpg
Man it break my heart to hear this. Wishing the best for you on this journey.Quote:
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God Bless.
Dang man. Hate that for anyone. Good luck to you.Quote:
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As my forum name suggests, I like live bait. It is not so much the bait, but I'm still a kid at heart and like to watch the bobber dance and move. The thrill of anticipation in the time between watching a bobber go down and setting the hook never goes away for me. If I can't find them with a fixed float set to 5 feet or less then my next favorite is a 1/64 oz black beetle reeled slowly along the bottom contour. I am coming around to the bison colored trout magnet also, but the black beetle is my normal go to.
For bait, I like bay shrimp,salted to harden them up, marinaded with scent oil & fished drop shot style on small Aberdeen hook. Do get lots of small sunfish with shrimp,but action usually constant & good mix of bigger ones also.Everything likes shrimp but be prepared to rebait alot .
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I use jigs that I pour and tye - mainly the Chubhead (1/24th & 1/48th w/wo blades) for trolling and the Roundhead (1/32nd) for casting. Sometimes I will switch them. All the jigs are poured with a #6 BLN Lil' Nasty hook.
Like to fish tipped with crickets/mealworms or plain. I'm stuck in a rut and that's all I fish with - except for Lake Havasu (the bigger fish prefer tipping with half of a worm).
Lake Havasu has some monster size Shellcrackers in it. My Oregon fishing buddy lived on Lake Havasu for years until he renovated his Oregon river house and moved there permanently.