Thought it would be interesting to hear your favorite methods for fishing for Gills. My favorite would have to be slip bobbers and various bait such as ,waxies, crickets, or leeches. Just love to see that bobber go down:) ...
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Thought it would be interesting to hear your favorite methods for fishing for Gills. My favorite would have to be slip bobbers and various bait such as ,waxies, crickets, or leeches. Just love to see that bobber go down:) ...
Crickets hooked under the collar with a 1.5 inch red carolina cork pegged with a toothpick with two BB shots six inches from a No. 8 Mustad aberdeen hook. Oh by the way 4lb test Trilene XL clear line. Reel used Shimano Stradic 1000 with a St. Croix Premier 6ft ultra light rod. A Coppernose Bluegill Reaper Setup.
Second only to by beloved crappie I love to fish for those big bream. I too love to see that bobber go under. Especially that 45 degree steadily disapearing one. I use crickets frequently, however my favorites as far as live bait goes are grubs and maggots. I catch the best bream on these two baits under any conditions. I get the grubs from my garden and the maggots by simply putting a fish carcas or other dead animal, to include road kill, in a plastic container. Once the carcas is saturated with maggots I let them grow for a week or so and then put them in a can with some cornmeal and sawdust mixture. This cleans them and makes them a little more pleasant to handle. I also found that by using a red blood hook ( I use a #6 or 8 which I scratch to reveal some of the silver) provides an excellent shining attraction combined with the red. This combo has proven to be superb for me. I put the same rig out side by side with a regular colored hook, the red hook set up consistently receives the most aggressive bites as well as the larger bream. I also thread 2 and sometimes 3 maggots on the hook (thread) they stay on very well. Give it a try, Im sure you will be pleased with the results. Good luck!!
That is exactly how I do it except for growing my own maggots and I have not tried the red hooks although I will be picking some up now:D . I always thread one or two completely on and let the last one hang a bit. You ever tried small leeches? Man that is by far the best big Gill bait for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by jasmax
My favorites:
#1 - Fly fishing (topwater)
#2 - Fly fishing (subsurface)
#3 - Float fishing with maggots
Small one inch black spoon with the #10 hook, tipped with a crappie nibble or maggots, fished under the smallest bobber i can find in my box.
Crickets about a foot maybe 15-18 inches under a plastic cork and no weight. You will fill your bucket in no time. Also when/if they are available, catalpa worms work great as well.
#1 1/32 or 1/16 oz Beetle spin on a U/L rod and reels. Cruise the banks and cast just like you are fishing for green carp. I wear them out with this method.
#2 Fly rod with a popper
#3 small cork couple of BB shot and a #6 hook with a cricket ( reds and/or pinks for shellcracker)
i use all artificials for the panfish. usually a jig in the 1/32 - 1/80 oz size tipped with a berkley power wiggler or an exude micro shad. right now we are fishing them extremely slow just cause they are not chasing a whole lot. here in the next couple weeks we just cast out the jig and use a steady retrieve to haul in lots of nice gills. our favorite colors would be orange jig with with or pink power wigglers right now and the micro shad in a couple weeks when the water really starts to warm. these are great combos that can be fished in any situation, from very shallow water to as much as 25- 30 feet as long as you can keep contact with the feel of your jig.
I use a 1/16 or 1/32 jig w/silver tinsle, baited with a wax worm or piece of minnow. I haved used crickets down at reelfoot lake and killed them, caught about 100 to 175 over my 4 day stay. I always use the smallest bobber I have.
I catch almost all my gils using 1/32 or 1/16 oz roundhead jigs without the "spur", dressed with a Cubby Nailtail.
An ice jig tipped with a waxie, spike, or a tiny piece of worm under a slip float.
for shallow water brim 4'or less i like a 12' fly rod 4lb line with a small slip cork cut in half for the lite bite no weight
fly rod with sneaky pete, or cheap white popper, second favorite is utra light with beetle spins. Had a blast this morning fly rod untilt he wind started whipping up then a beetle spin on my ultra light. Fun is over for today.
The pic says it all
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...rappies061.jpg
1. Fly Rod with a topwater popper (so much fun to watch one hit topwater).
2. Ultra lite with 4# line and a rooster tail or beetle spin.
3. And then once I find a bed or concentration of fish I will drop a small piece of red wiggler under a cork down into them.
either crickets or worms under a cork. bright cork when deep but natural color when shallow
My favorite is crickets on a #8 aberdeen hook under a cork, but I have caught some good ones on minnows while crappie fishing.
Man-o-man, these little 1/64 oz handtied jigs are just awesome.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...050707_02a.jpg
Pretty colors all around, fish and one heck of a color combo JIG, too. :cool:
Eat them up, YUM!
My favorite method of fishing for Bream is with a flyrod with white fly line and a 6lb test leader as long as I can reach with both arms extended. Any longer and it's hard to cast. I use a 7WF Flyline. Attach the smallest bb shot about 6" above a #8 long shank bream hook. The motion is a "roll cast" which starts about even with the boat and can be extended for quite a distance with practice. I hook a Cricket through the "collar" on his back which allows him to remain alive. The roll cast is relatively quiet and when that cricket hits a bream bed, they will pick it up and you can watch your flyline begin to move off, then set the hook. If you like a float, you can add a very small one which aids in detecting strikes. I have caught hundreds of large bluegills and shellcrackers with this method. Just a little variation from fly fishing.
Yesterday I tried a new method to me . I was in the float tube over 17' of water. Water was 76 degrees and clear. The large gills were shying from small to tiny jigs/wax worms.
I tied on a #10 gold salmon egg hook a full 3' to 4' from a large split shot on 8 lb red power Pro. The weight let it get down to the bottom and the 3' to 4' let the hook w/2 wax worms fall slowly near the bottom.
These large gills just hammered it.
I wouldn't try to cast a rig this radical but sure worked well when on top of them.;) Mke
I like this setup fished with wax worms.
http://adhocjigs.zoomshare.com/files...ser_Minnow.JPG
old ship
Mike,
I use a similar rig but fish from shore. That slow fall of the bait is just deadly.
I do need to get a float tube, though.
The slower, the better man. Crappies usually "inspect" the bait then inhale it. You want a light bait that is easy to inhale.Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco
I have to dye some blue marabou and then I'm gonna try the Clouser on a jig hook.
Thanks for the illustration. I'll give it a try in a few days.
Have yourself a great time. Catch all you can and introduce them to "lake Crisco"
old ship:cool:
That fish looks just like the one years ago, I hooked for the third week in a row at Lake Theo! Third Time is a charm! It went almost 1.25 pounds! Caprock Canyons is the lakes name now. This fish wanted to go with me I reckon, sporting the hook marks where I caught it prior!Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiekeith