What is good bait for blue gill?

Question

What is good bait for blue gill?

Answer 1

it was weird but i was catching small ones to use for bass fishing and i was using a peice of backon and cought a 5 pounder off the shore, so i would say use bacon

Answer 2

PIECES of worm:garunteed to work:fake flies:lily work with a chance of bigger fish eating it

Answer 3

I always had good luck with ham and mealworms...they seem to like that.

Answer 4

I have caught the majority of them on plain old earthworms.  That or a mepse (lure)

Answer 5

Nightcrawlers/earthworms or anything live such as a grasshopper has always worked!!!!!

Answer 6

worms are great and around here shrimp works great noone knows why

Answer 7

The baits to use for bluegill are limitless.  Any variety of worm, meal worms, crickets, catalpa worms (regional, mainly the low country of the South East U.S.) and if you are real adventuresome, good ol' maggots (one of the best baits).  For artificial baits, small bettle spins, any number of small inline spinners (like a small rooster tail) and any one of a thousand flies such as poppers and the thing (a sponge spider looking contraption) on a fly rod.  I have caught them on bass lures (not really recommended) and on small crappie (we call them speckled pearch) minnows for really big blue gill.  Here is an ol' florida cracker trick, find a road kill (coon or possum) that is fresh, hang it in a tree over the water 5 or so days before you go fishing, it will get fly blown and maggots will continually be falling it the water, the biggest blue gill in the area, along with all other panfish, will take up residence there for the easy eating.  Some other florida cracker baits for them are small grass shrimp and "bonnet worms", they are a bettle grub that lives in the steams of water lillies, there will be a hole in the pad near where the steam meets it, pull it up, split the stem....and there will be an awsome bream bait.  Good luck.

Answer 8

Good ole' worms work the best for me!

Answer 9

for live bait...night crawlers on a bobber works wonders. for artificial bait...use a little bright colored grub or very small worm. they will hit. i normally catch them in nets but when crappy fishing i catch them all the time. the main thing is to use small hooks because they will pick your worm off the hook if it's not moving. Good Luck and Happy Fishing!!!

Answer 10

Blue gills are not picky fish by any means.  You can usually scrounge up some bait in your yard pretty easily.

I usually just dig in the garden for some earthworms.  If I am ambitious, I water the lawn that evening and get some night crawlers after dark.

Crickets on a hook and bobber will get a ton of bites.  Grubs found in the lawn or rotten logs also are quite awsome.

If I am fishing from a boat, I will use a little jig head with a small a "Mister Twister" type tail on it.  If there are bass in the area, I might add a small minnow to that (though the minnow tends to discourage the small/normal sized blue gills from biting IMHO)

I've seen people catch blue gills using kernals of canned corn, spam, leftover meat, marshmellows...you name it.

BUT....my secret bait....

I used to fish in the Pacific Northwest.  A common bait up there for trout are cured, colored salmon eggs that come in a glass jar.  I've seen these at the larger sporting good stores in the Midwest as well.  These eggs are absolutely amazing at catching bluegills.  I think the pink/red ones work best, but I just put an egg on the hook and put it on the bobber...it is an easy bait, no effort to put on, and IMHO it is the best bluegill bait I've used.

Good Luck and happy fishing.

Answer 11

Not very picky. I've caught blue gills on earthworms as well as flies using my fly rod.

Answer 12

Plain ole worms are best. I always catch bluegills with the smaller troutworms (as they called round here..)

Crawlers run a little big, I think, and usually result in a lot of nipping.

I've also had luck with small minnows. I catch bass or pickeral more often with the minnows on the pond I like fishing, but more than a few times I've brought in a bluegill bigger than most.

Answer 13

Earthworms.

Answer 14

wiggly little red worms work great!

Answer 15

Good ol' worms buttt, sometimes go with night crawlers torn in half ;)... < ' ( (( > <