We all have our favorites. What is yours?
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We all have our favorites. What is yours?
For gils and bream I have had the best success using a beetle spin with a 1½" black with 2 yellow stripes split tail. Especially in our stained coastal rivers.
Can`t beat the Beetle spin ! use white, yellow and split tail yellow/ black when not using nightcralwers
Me too love em. Along with RoadRunners and RoosterTails.
Microspoons black mini spoon for me. The gills and ears love em. Plain or tip with a nibble.
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Small jigs or flies work best for me, but live maggots are FAR better than any artificial bait I've ever seen.
Hey Chaunc, your pic says it all!!! I've definitely gotta try some of the Microspoons!!! I really like both Road Runners and Beetlespins as primary search lures and then once I've found the "Fleet" I'll go to more specialized lures and techniques (artificial worms, live crawlers under a slip float, artificial grubs, etc)
chaunc Where do I get my Microspoons?
I prefer smaller lures for gills. I used 1/32 foxee jigs for years and since they were discontinued i have gone with smaller lure/hooks. Also redworms on really small ice jigs or hooks work great. I usually stay at 1/100 oz or smaller. One of the deadliest jigs ive used if you can call it a jig is a turner jones scampi (1/500 oz) but they are $3 ea:eek:. I also added a bunch of really small daiichi fly hooks to all mt boxes recently. I slow fall sometimes really helps, also light weight seems to help peckers actually take it in.
Keith and Jessica are top notch !! Their website is microspoons.com ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BasicallyBluegill
... cp :cool:
Thanks Pap.:) Ask them about the new line coming out this winter too.
Thanks, crappiepappy and chaunc.
chaunc, how are you fishing the spoons?
Beetle spins but a plain marabou jigs under a slip bobber is tough to beat.
Fatman
Smallest bobber you can find. Fish the spoon as deep as you need too with no added weight. This lets the spoon flutter down very slowly. Watch your bobber for ANY movement. You may need some needlenose pliers until you get the hang of it. Those gills will slurp it in before you know it.:D If you use a maggot, you can catch quite a few before you need to re-bait. I also use white as a back up and green too.Quote:
Originally Posted by redear
Chaunc,
Yes, on the drop with maggot. I still matchfish that very same way but using a pole float.
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Chaunc, I too like the spoon profile but I solder and modify my setup to include a changeable dropper lure. This is my "Go to" setup.
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I got very good tips from both of you, and consider ya'll to be a treasure to this site.
Thanks Redear. Merry Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by redear
Genz Worm glo ice jig tipped with waxie or brine shrimp under fly strike indicator.
miss besty from strike king any color brim reepers are killer swimming shad thew small ones from bass pro.
My favorite is about a 3/8 inch length of plastic on a small 1/64 or 1/32 shad darter jig head.
What does a miss besty look like?
Hello chmee; do you mind to expound a little on the brine shrimp? Are they fresh, frozen, dried? Where do you get them? Do they stay on the hook well?Quote:
Originally Posted by chmee213
FYI, I'm always interested in a portable tipping bait that will keep for long periods in my tackle box; never mind all those manufactured nibbles, they just simply don't work well here where I'm at, I've had better luck tipping with small pieces of pork rind than I have crappie nibbles. Right now my #1 favorite bait for tipping is dried wax worms, in fact I just bought 250 a couple of days ago and dried them in my food dehydrator and stuck them in the freezer for later. They work just as well or better than live ones, stay on the hook better, and will keep in the tackle box.
But you've got my curosity up about brine shrimp; do you buy them as an aquarium fish food, dried or frozen?
Well, sorry, I got interested in the brine shrimp and forgot to share the lures we like; Rod & reeling we use the beetle spins (generic for jig spinners, mostly the smallest ones) alot, weighted as needed, with whatever type of jig head, tube head, mini jig, color (combo of chatruese and hot pink or black generally works good), and almost always tipped with some sort of tidbit.
But, there's not too many times that my wife or anyone else can outdo me with my fly rod; I have a bastard way of fishing with it; I use the tiniest micro jigs I can find (popeyes are excellent), tipped of course, and with floating fly line (which serves as the most sensitive strike indicator I know of). It's very effective for gills.
I cant believe nobody has mentioned the keystone minnow, squirrel tail jigs are good also. We catch a lot here on beetle spins, we catch a lot on flies, we catch a lot on rooster tails, we catch a lot on several things, but nothing other than live crickets compares to the keystone minnow here. There use to be a bait years ago that some of you may remember that was one of the best baits ever for gills, dont know why they discontinued it but it was called the tator bug, it really worked well. We use to fish under the trees when the gills were on bed and loved using black ants off the trees and when the willow flies hatch, hold your horses people, fish them on a light hook and have a blast.
They are preserved baits from Magic Baits. I got mine at Sportsman's Warehouse. They make many kinds of this type of baits. The shrimp stay on very well even with little nibblers. I have a little known place that I fish, mostly dinks including some very small bass. They hit like a train and even jumped it was a gas. I was using an 8' ultralight rod and 4# line so it was good fun.
Thank you chmee.
trout magnets i usually cut the tail off just a tiny bit and sometimes tip it with Berkeley gulp waxies man those are awesome
also i have been fishing Berkeley fish fry with alot of success i fish both under a float just big enough to hold it up or without a float and hold the line with the tip of my finger for the really shy bites
Beetle spin for me, black and yellow
1/2 inch mepp's flip it, good luck finding one i havent seen one for sale in years
i love when the gills go on bed. If you are using a float and you throw out, your hook hits the water before the float and the gills react so quick that many times your floater never comes back up. They are on before your floater hits the water, i mean a split second thats how fast. It is so much fun. We use to wade very very slowly in an area when I was a kid and as long as you moved extremely slow, you could just about straddle a gill bed and fish right down between your legs and catch them. It aint that easy anymore, but I sure miss those days. Those gills will gaurd a bed pretty tight. So sometimes you can get right on them before they will leave the bed.
Beetle spins it is green,yellow,black,or white. Also roostertails. But crickets work best for me.
Attached Photo is my favorite for Brim.
I call them "Brim Jigs" This is the new model .. the old one was Marine Epoxy Painted .. eyes painted on red on white,
Use it below a spin bubble or on ultra lite with out float. I have caught a lot of them with this (got to pour some other color tails but the red has been the best with a black head ... even have a 8# plus Bass on it).
#6 & #8 most of the time the #6 is the best.
JSC
Hands down GRIZZLY JIGS the 1/80 Tidwells Teal tipped with a waxworm or a powerbait will catch any thing that swims there are several colors that work great but that one is my favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are right Tidwells Teal is a great one, but that lil Bill's Water Flea is hands down the best bluegill jig I have ever used. ole Mike
for bream i've been most successful with crickets. for crappie gimme a jig anyday...
My all time favorite is a black(wet) fly tipped with maggot/waxie, no weight(or very small split 18" up) 5' lead to adjust-a-bubble. Throw it out and left it drift down. But, If I'm in the summer when theyre spread out more, and mixin with the litt uns , I like to use a bomber fat a crank (B03 size) in firetiger or blue/silver. The smaller gills dont mess with it too much , but the bigger ones cant resist..... kinda helps to "seperate the men from the boys" . Oh and you would be surprised at the size of some of the bass and specks you will catch on them, for such a small crank.
Yep- Black Gnat wet fly tipped with a wax worm. I like to fish mine with a "casting bubble". A torpedo shaped float with ane eye on both ends. I like the smaller ones, about 1/2" diameter at the widest part, about 2" long. Tie about a 2 foot leader to the blunt end with the black gnat at the end. the long tapered end of the float to the rod end. The float provides all the weight you need for a long cast.
Fish it "horizontal" --taking up all the slack as soon as it hits the water. The wet fly sloww drifts down -and gets hit. When you see the slightest "scoot" of the bubble on the surface - take him. The bubble doesn't go DOWN - but scoots on the surface as the gill turns to swim away.
If no bite - reel a little in. This will raise the fly to the surface. Stop, and let it drift down again.
If it don't get hit - there ain't no gills there!!!!!!
It's a lot like fly fishing without a fly rod.
Those will work nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by JSC