bluegills stuff?

[deputy865]

what should i use that is highly effective in warm water for bluegills i love to fish for hogs and bull is a tiny ice fishin jig good with a spike/wax worms? ni know you all have fished for gills what is efective?

[chamookman]

Deputy - Small ice jigs with waxworms or meal worms under a slip float would be an exellent combo for "Bull" Gills. Crickets on a long shank hook are hard to beat also. Use 4lb. or 2lb. line, Big Gills are quite line shy, not bold like the pesky dinks! I've had luck with small (1" to 1 1/2") Crappie tubes too. Good luck - Bob WC#253.

[skulldugary]

We use slip bobbers,4lb.line.#10 long shank hooks and wood crickets,wax worms,spikes or pieces of night crawlers.I've seen times in Tennessee when crickets would out fish anything else 5 to 1........

[DTSTrout]

I use bobbers and worms early in the season. At some point I switch to crickets, using a sinker at the bottom and a red hook 12 to 18 inches up. Floating rubber spiders during the spawn on a fly rod. A couple of odd patterns I use also: one is after a couple of sunny days after ice out, fish the north side of the lake in VERY shallow water for gills warming themselves and 2: during warm weather search on the graph for muck bottom giving off bubbles in 12-25 ft of water. Good luck

[Whit1]

Ice fishing teardrops and waxworms or worms. Like someone mentioned, use 2-4 lb. test line, especially in clear water.

Rubber spiders on fly gear is also effective.

[CMFish51]

My favorite Live bait for bluegills are crickets, they will out catch most baits everytime. If you wanna go get some wall hangers, so to your nearest crick and wade for some crawfish. Use the small craws on a plain hook suspended or just lying on the bottom. You will catch plenty of bass strolling the area, but when you hook into some bull gills, they will be some mosnters!!

Corey

[goggleye57]

Talking about crayfish- I've used the little green crayfish from Berkley power baits on a size 8 or 10 gold hook under a slip bobber.
Rubber Spiders work great too- do a search on ebay;)

[Gillgitter]

I've always heard of people using crickets. Where the heck do you get em and how do ya hook them rascles on? I don't remember seeing them in any bait shops.

Thanks,

Doug

[esox master]

I am not sure how many other lakes have this happen on them. The lake my cottage is on in NW Michigan I catch decent number of (8-10 inch) Bluegill. They tend to cruise in small groups in 8-12 feet of water. I fish a modified black woolly bugger with gold eyes, no hackle raped around it, and a yellow tail. Seems to work very well though you need to find the lanes and structure they will pass over. Allot of it is just waiting in the hour or so before dark I can typically catch 7-10 fish though they will all be over 8 inches. This happens for around two weeks at the end of June. Also stick with a fly rod I have fish other lures or bait and do allot better on a fly rod.

[tcs]

I just hook the crickets from the rear to the head they do work great. They are in about all the bait shops I go to. Fish and tackel grab bag and Johny's hardware is another that have them in the Flint, Davison area. Give them a shot.
Good Fishing,
Tom

[kroppe]

Gillgitter,

In my area there is only one shop with crickets that I know of - Pine Grove in Clinton, on US-12. In Grayling there are a few places. We use them for trout and they go nuts for them. Put the hook through the carapace (shell behind head) and they last for a few casts. I have a small cricket mesh box that I hang on my fishing vest so I can use them while wading. It's the ticket!

[andy capp]

Micro tubes are the ticket!

[Lunker]

Tie a small golden shiner on a 1/16 ounce gold or glow jig head tipped with a chunk of crawler

glow jigs at night with a crawler chunk on the seawalls

tiny chartreuse jigs on a tiny glow jig

duck feather nymph also knows as trout candy

[Gillgitter]

Thanx for the replies.

Next question: Do you just put them on a plain hook and let them float or do you put them on a jig/bobber set up?

Thanks

[Whit1]

GG,
Yes!............all of the above will work.

[CMFish51]

GillGetter - I mostly use the crickets under a slip float with a small plain hook. I get all my crickets from Pet Supplies Plus. Go to any pet shop, they mainly sell them for feeding reptiles, but the gills don't mind...

Corey

[FISH]

has anyone use leeches for Gills before? i am going to try it when i can get out.how would you rig them?? I am going to use a #10- 12 hook in the head and put a smaller #14-18 hook as a trailer and put that though the skin at the end. also has anyone ever lost a jig while fighting a fish, then later catch that fish again and get the jig back?:confused: :confused:

[CMFish51]

I have tried leeches before, but only caught bass on em

Corey

[tcs]

I accidently caught some REAL nice gills at Houghton Lake while using leaches trying to catch walleye. I did get a bunch of small bass too. I have never tried to use them just to catch gills but I think I'm gonna give it a try.
Good Fishing,
Tom