#8 yellow popping bug with rubber legs, otherwise I'll stick my hand in PigHunter's cricket cage when he's not looking.

small poppers and sliders. i sell them as a side business and that is one of the biggest markets around here.

worm on a small hook

I am with Country about the poppin bugs, but the absoluter killer bream bait is a tuff skin Belgium red wiggler that has been fed Worm-Glo. The tiger worm feed on Worm-Glo comes in at second place. When the earth worm is a glowing charteuse green, the fish just can not resist it. I have even caught spotted sea trout on the Belgiums when glowing charteuse green. Remember that the Belgium worm has a much tougher skin than a night crawler so the fish do not tear them off the hook nearly as easy. When I get home after a fishing trip, I just dump the leftover glowing worms back into the worm bed and in a few days they lose the color and it does not seem to hurt them.

I just learned to fly fish last summer, and that quickly became my favorite way catch bluegills. I've just used a water spider pattern that my local fly shop ties. Prior to fly fishing it was either live crickets or the small crankbait called a crickethopper. Could catch bass on the crickethopper too.

Worm on a jig head w/ or w/o a bobber, no need to over think