berkley maggots white...work better than crickets and worms?

i have been having a hard time catching any fish besides catfishs at a pond near me i have tried worms/crickets/nightcrwlers/catwaba..and never got anything at this pond they worked great in the neuse river and capefear river though.

my target fish was bream and i was using this setup.

ngage-r2f-120/sp rod/reel combo bought at walmart
a new bait i never heard called berkley Gulp! maggot/asticots white

i caught 5 fish in less than 15mins..using this bait in a jar..i was stunned to say the least..is this normal for this maggot bait or was today just a lucky day?

will this bait work like this everytime i go fishing or was this a fluke?

the time was around 7:30pm if it matters.

what would be a good time to catch em? i dont plan on keeping any of them though i always C&R all the fish i catch regardless of what it is..

sorry for going on and on but i had a good time fishing today even if it was brief stupid mosquito's...

not normal for me.... the berkley baits are good but i havent had many times i outfished regular bait with them.. have you tried wax worms or regular maggots against them to see?

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Personally, if fishing for Bream or even goggle eyed sunfish, I would use the Berkley Gulp products ONLY AFTER my supply of wax worms run out. It is their scent and shape that fools the fish and does a descent job, but a real wax worm will always outfish them IMHO.

The key is your presentation and your confidence in a bait. Slow it down and you'll get more bites.

Live bait will outfish any thing berkley makes every time. Not to say that they dont have good products, I have a jar of maggots myself that I keep just in case I run out of live bait. Crickets, wax worms, or good ole' garden worms will always catch brim.

I agree with all post but I'm curious to know what a ( catwaba ) is?

does not surprise me one bit, I use nothing but artificial and catch as many or more than the guys using live bait. the berkley maggots and the berkley power wigglers are two of my favorite for gills and specks. they even work well on yellow perch, smallmouth, and several other species

In the south we have Catwaba trees that a type of Catapiller loves to eat. During certain times of the summer the Catapillers will devour the folage on these trees and the little critters are excellent Bream bait. I just pick them off the tree, put them in a container and use them like I would a worm or cricket. They may grow up north too, I don't know.

Bluegill :)

You ain't kidding they like them. I cleaned a bunch yesterday that were full of them. Also, Rebel makes a cat-r-crawler crankbait that gills love. It looks just like them.

Are you guy's talking about a cataphal tree? I'm not sure of the spelling,If you'all are right or me. If so I have 2 in my back yard and have been using them for year's.The worm is black with yellow line's from one end to the other. They are great catfish bait also.

Heres a sight that I found from someone who markets them. I noticed that there are different spellings for the samething. No matter how you spell them, their great bait.

http://www.catawbaworms.com/pictures.html

Bluegill

Thank's bluegill.I got a catawba tree and did'nt even know it lol.

I got 3 trees and very seldom ever see a tawber worm before July every year.:(

July here in ky.Maybe late june though in a warm spring.

tried 3 different gulp baits a dozen times and never caught a thing. I would switch to worms and wear the gills out.

Live bait, fished properly, will outfish Gulp, or any other artificial, two to one, sometimes ten to one depending on conditions. I do keep a jar of the 1" Gulp minnows in my tackle bag, as I've found they are one of the better lures for bluegill, though I don't as a rule do as well with them as I do crappie sliders; but when I really need to catch fish, or am after very big bluegill, I fish live bait 90% of the time. But even with live bait, presentation is key: using 4- or 6-lb. line, for instance, can mean the difference between lots of fish and no fish, as can using a small aberdeen (#6 or 8) hook as opposed to a crappie-sized hook, or using little to no weight as opposed to a clump of 3/0 split shot, or hooking a redworm or mealworm lightly once so it can wriggle as opposed to threading it onto the hook and killing it instantly, etc.

Crickets= Brown

Worms= "Reddish" Brown (not really what color you'd consider them?)

Maggots= White

Maybe it's color and not bait?

fly_freebird90
You ain't kidding they like them. I cleaned a bunch yesterday that were full of them. Also, Rebel makes a cat-r-crawler crankbait that gills love. It looks just like them.

the cat-r-crawler is discontinued i believe. it isn't in their catalog and i rarely have seen it on store shelves in years. i was never crazy about it because it was sinking. didn't make sense to me having it sinking when its more likely water around the shore is going to be shallow.

Just a reminder ... this thread is almost five years old.

old thread?? well maybe somebody will get some use out of it anyway; the gulp 1" minnows work great, and so do the crickets, i've never tried the maggots, but live nightcrawlers and live crickets are tough to beat

Doh! I fell for that again! Didn't notice someone had replied to an old thread and then I joined in...

ahh. i didn't notice the post year either. i used the cat r crawler when i lived in pennsy with very limited success about 10-15 years ago. i tried the strike king bitty wiggle or something like that last summer with limited success directly underneath piller loaded trees with my kayak with so-so results.

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I know this is old, but I got to say that those little "rubber maggots" come in pretty handy when you have kids fishing for "bait stealer s"! Otherwise they tend to stay in my tackle box till ever thing alive in the boat has been tried...

A year old? lmao, i do gotta say thnx for that catapiller tip though. I really had no idea they liked them so much so i suppose this thread really helped me out. It's a good thing someone resurrected it for me lol...:Rofl