Thread: Micro fishing Photos

Originally Posted by LVSpinfisher1

Skeet, I've used Sabiki rig before long ago for catching live baits for my surf excursions. It certainly would work with baby gills, but now I'm mostly 1-hook kind of fisherman.

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I knew that before I posted. I just meant as a source for tiny cheap artificial baits. They come like 8 to a rig for a couple of bucks or less, and some are kinda fancy.

I went micro chasing again this morning at Lake McIntosh.
I took a couple of rods , my 6’3” Abu MB3 and a 5’6” St Croix Premier ULF2 .
The reels used were a KastKing Zephyr SFS 1000s and my Shimano Soare 500 XR sp, both with 2# Floroclear.
I started with the SC and KastKing combo and after a few fish , put the Soare 500 on the St Croix and stayed with that combo the rest of the morning. Great combo for the small ones and it casts tiny jigs better .
I used Trout Magnet heads some , but mostly used homemade jigs from flyhooks and tungsten beads .
The fly hook jigs outcast the TM mini jigheads .
Plastic baits were mini TM bodies and regular TM bodies with the first two rings cut off the front to make a smaller profile.
I caught 34 total in a little over a couple hours .
Most were bluegills , but a few redears , a couple of warmouths and green sunfish got into the action l

Some weren’t exactly micros .

A good day for the little fellers today.

One of the smallest warmouth I’ve caught , could be my smallest .
Some tiny gills were caught this morning too.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever be a part of a post celebrating fish this small! Great fish gents!!

Originally Posted by skeetbum

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever be a part of a post celebrating fish this small! Great fish gents!!

Small fish lives Matter too

I am maxed when I catch these lil fellers how scrappy they are. Remind me of the little engine that thought he could.

I fished Lake McIntosh this morning using my 5’6” St Croix Premier ULF2 paired up with a new Shimano Soare XR 500spg and 2# Floroclear..
Started out throwing a black Mini Trout Magnet on a Tungsten beaded size 12 streamer hook .
Took several casts before I caught a tiny gill . Less than 3” .
Fishing was slow . The water was down about a foot from evaporation, I believe , with all this heat , and no rain lately . And there was a film around the shoreline .
Temps this morning at 10:00 were already in the low eighties. But there was an occasional breeze that helped .
The other bait I fished was a black chenille hand tied jig on a streamer hook , with a tungsten bead and black rabbit fur tail . A simple jig that mimics a leach or possibly a small minnow.
I think I caught the majority on the hand tie , but it was fairly close between the two .
I only caught nine and all but one were what I call micros .
I enjoyed the rod combo a lot . A very lightweight fun combo to spend a couple hours chasing little gills .