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Besides the all mighty worm, does anyone have any tips for different bait for catching bluegills in the summer?
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Crickets if you can find them, meal worms, grasshoppers and frozen bait shrimp available at most grocery stores.
Bubba
I'll add catalpa worms, maggots and red wasp larvae.
Bread crumbs. Chum with them and then put a little on a small hook. If you have a fly rod, a spider fly is hot.
small leeches if they have them in your area.
Hot dogs I swear by cheap hot dogs. Chum a little with em and they swarm like bees.
Corn kernels on a small hook
Corn kernals, wax worms, wigglers, grasshoppers, crickits, dry flies, nymphs, jigs, pinhead minnows, doughballs, hornet larva,poppers, helgrimites, maggots,leapers, baby frogs,power bait. Bluegulls are very aggressive most of the time. Put them in a tank with piranha and the bullgill will attack them as will crappie and most of the time kill them off
ive caught em off of small minnows and small artificial minnows and artificial grubs and fly fishing bait early morning and late afternoon and ive caught em off of small hunks of chicken liver and grasshoppers
Snails/slugs, grubs, hotdogs, small pieces of meat, crickets, and even tiny baby bluegill.
They'll hit just about anything they can get their mouth around.
I've had reliable success with crickets, hot dogs (can be hard to keep on the hook though), and pieces of those catfish stinkbait nuggets - made by Berkeley, I think.
For some real fun, I like a small beetle spin on an ultralight rod. A good hand-sized bluegill feels like a marlin.
i tear em up on a small crawfish dive bait
1/32 & 1/64 ounce jigs or even a beetle spin. You can fish them alone or tip them with any of the above mentioned baits.
i've seen them hit a cigarrete butt that a guy threw in the water! assh*le!
Cidadas work well when you can find them.
I love using mealworms fro any fihs, from bass, trout and 'gills.
Wax worms, black beetles or small jigs under a thin slip bobber on an ultra-lite rod and spinning reel does wonders for me.
I have good success taking a small jighead (1/16 oz. to 1/32 oz.) and putting an artificial lure like a bass pro squirming squirt or using a similar size Johnson Beetle spin. I cast into areas that have a fairly steep drop off point and letting the lure sink for awhile. I then do a fairly slow retrieve since I have found that many crappie have moved back deeper in the hot summer months of Louisiana. For added measure, I also place a crappie nibble on the hook. I also use flourocarbon line rather than monofilament since flouro doesn't stretch.
I hope you have great success getting after the perch.
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Crickets if you can find them, meal worms, grasshoppers and frozen bait shrimp available at most grocery stores.
Bubba
I'll add catalpa worms, maggots and red wasp larvae.
Bread crumbs. Chum with them and then put a little on a small hook. If you have a fly rod, a spider fly is hot.
small leeches if they have them in your area.
Hot dogs I swear by cheap hot dogs. Chum a little with em and they swarm like bees.
Corn kernels on a small hook
Corn kernals, wax worms, wigglers, grasshoppers, crickits, dry flies, nymphs, jigs, pinhead minnows, doughballs, hornet larva,poppers, helgrimites, maggots,leapers, baby frogs,power bait. Bluegulls are very aggressive most of the time. Put them in a tank with piranha and the bullgill will attack them as will crappie and most of the time kill them off
ive caught em off of small minnows and small artificial minnows and artificial grubs and fly fishing bait early morning and late afternoon and ive caught em off of small hunks of chicken liver and grasshoppers
Snails/slugs, grubs, hotdogs, small pieces of meat, crickets, and even tiny baby bluegill.
They'll hit just about anything they can get their mouth around.
I've had reliable success with crickets, hot dogs (can be hard to keep on the hook though), and pieces of those catfish stinkbait nuggets - made by Berkeley, I think.
For some real fun, I like a small beetle spin on an ultralight rod. A good hand-sized bluegill feels like a marlin.
i tear em up on a small crawfish dive bait
1/32 & 1/64 ounce jigs or even a beetle spin. You can fish them alone or tip them with any of the above mentioned baits.
i've seen them hit a cigarrete butt that a guy threw in the water! assh*le!
Cidadas work well when you can find them.
I love using mealworms fro any fihs, from bass, trout and 'gills.
Wax worms, black beetles or small jigs under a thin slip bobber on an ultra-lite rod and spinning reel does wonders for me.
I have good success taking a small jighead (1/16 oz. to 1/32 oz.) and putting an artificial lure like a bass pro squirming squirt or using a similar size Johnson Beetle spin. I cast into areas that have a fairly steep drop off point and letting the lure sink for awhile. I then do a fairly slow retrieve since I have found that many crappie have moved back deeper in the hot summer months of Louisiana. For added measure, I also place a crappie nibble on the hook. I also use flourocarbon line rather than monofilament since flouro doesn't stretch.
I hope you have great success getting after the perch.
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