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iv heard good things about these for panfish but id think after 2 or 3 cast it would lose its gooey texture or sent or whateve rit is they put on it what do you think if it works extremely well then it is def a much cheaper alternative to worms for pan fishing
I think the Powerbait Honey worms and nibblers work better.Quote:
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They work very well for ice fishing or drifting in a boat.
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I’ve used them and they work well,but I agree with slabmaster,honey worms are hard to beat,and stand up well to multiple strikes.
I like the maggots to tip plastic bugs or Popeyes, but have not tried the honey worms others have mentioned. The maggots are only good for one, maybe 2 fish tops for me
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woud they be good for fishing creeks n bank fishing by themselves? iv never ever had sucess using jigs for bluegill idk how guys do it lol iv used with corks andwithout seem slike they only want live bait here
Everything, I've read or seen on youtube says that for some reason the gulp minnow works a lot better than the gulp maggot, maybe it's the wiggle tail.Quote:
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Fishermen "sweeten up" a small 1/64 -1/32 oz jig with a piece of Nightcrawler ,Mealworm or Waxworm or artificial powerbait.Quote:
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so how are you suppose to fish the gulp minnows? like a jig slowly retrieve and slight jerks?
That’s how we used the gulp minnows before, like a tube jig.Quote:
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For what little bluegill fishing I do I use trout magnets & Charlie brewer 1” slider jigs under a slip float, I’ll tip with nibbles unless I’m just catching small ones
Then it’s just the jig
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I fish them under a bobber during spring and summer. They've workerd very good for me. Attachment 331318Attachment 331319Attachment 331320Attachment 331321Attachment 331322Attachment 331323Quote:
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Wax worms are the best i have caught several buckets full in a day of fishing for bluegills and brim
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You can slowly twitch your rod tip and make it hop on the bottom.Or you can cast it out and slowly reel it back in.Or you can fish it under a float and slowly move the float a few feet and stop and repeat.Quote:
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I use the 1 inch sliders to cast and retrieve ,but a slip cork and a pan fish magnet gets these on the tip . Attachment 331811
A 1/64oz black jig with a nibble, will catch all you want. If spinning use 4# line with #5 split shot weight 15" above to help with distance. Let fall to bottom and reel just fast enough to keep the bait close to bottom!
I keep hesitating to order some black feather jigs, because all my life everybody and everything I read says chartreuse is the best color, maybe I'm afraid the fish won't see it as good as chartreuse?Quote:
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Google Black colored Bugs or Black colored Beetles, click on images and look at all the possibilities for food source for our Blue Gilled Friends. My father fly fished for gills while I casted conventional offerings and almost all of his Panfish flies were black or had a black pattern. Surface or sub surface, black shows up well in any water color or depth. Lot more black insects than chartreuse ones. Just an observation, your mileage may vary!Quote:
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Black is absolutely deadly for gills.Quote:
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u mean those little square nibbles that berkley sells in the jars? are those really worth it? i dont get it u just put one ona hook and cast it out and fish like them? i dont get how it works
I tried Gulp Minnows during the spawn and found them wanting. Fish would bite the minnow but not aggressively enough to get hooked. Whatever advantage they give if you tip a jig with them I suspect would be less than just fishing a real minnow alone. I may have continued to play with them but the bottle leaked and they got hard. I could have rehydrated them but frankly I didn't think it was worth the bother. I'm not saying that they don't work, they just didn't work the single time I tried them. They are probably not an alternative to live bait but I understand if you are walking a shore line live bait is a hassle. I also know that not all locations are the same. There are subtle variations in the way fish respond to lures in different lakes and under different conditions. The conditions I tried them under were a sunny day, temperature around 70 F, two foot visibility, green water, water temperature low 60s, early spawn, all black Crappie, mostly males between rocky bank and brush piles in deeper water, upper arm of medium size reservoir.
Yeah...open the jar and let them dry out, until they start to feel rubbery, instead of mushy.You can fish them by themselves or put them on a small jig.Quote:
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Tip a 1/64oz jig with a nibble.
Best technique I have found to dry them out a bit and toughen them up is to use garlic powder. Dump them in a plate with a liberal amount of garlic powder. Roll them around a bit and put them back in the jar. Works wonders!Quote:
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yes they really work. I tip all my jigs with them. I have best luck with pink for crappie . I have even caught them on just a hook under a bobber with them.Quote:
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