Thread: lures for bream

Bitsy pond minnow catches eveything that swims!!!!! love em!!!

almost any small crank bait will catch gills and red ear. I like to dial it in a little bit and use a swimbait on a 1/16 oz jig head and you can feel the deference between the good size gills or the dinks (bait steelers) that just hit the tail and pull the bait away from em and wait for the bigger fish to take it. when u feel that tap tap tap dont wait a sec then set the hook. instead reel it fast for a second and get it away from em then start your presentation again. ive found it puts better fish in the cooler. I also like road runners for nice gills little ones just cant seem to get hooked up on a road runner cause they hit the blade only so they are effective for good gills.

Originally Posted by kgalla02

Any of you guys down south ever think about applying some ice-fishing techniques? I'm just wondering and it is on my 'bucket list' to go south with my Plano box of ice-fishing jigs and see how I fare in the land of 2lb bluegill, . I basically use the same methods year round for bluegill/panfish in Michigan/SW Ontario and it works well around the docks, in the weedbeds, deep or shallow, spring/summer/fall/winter. You can jig these plastics, drop-shot 'em, fish 'em under a slip-bobber, et ... they work.

The plastics I'm picturing are called Ice Mites, Candy Plastic Domination Fry and Little Atom. The Little Atom is the singular red plastic with a tail coming off the ball and you'll see the purple Firetiger teardrop jighead where I cut the tail off the Little Atom to place just the round head on the teardrop hook. Same concept as a 'Jensen Egg', but smaller, & it works wonders.

The jigheads are 5mm & made out of tungsten, so they're small but heavy & drop fast. They come 3mm - 8mm. At first I was skeptical that I would catch anything of size on such a small hook, but I've even landed a few decent size carp/sheephead with those hooks and the bluegill gobble 'em up.

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Rapala Jigging Rap, one of the best kept secrets for southern panfish...shhhh....They're actually difficult to find since the ice fishing season is so variable to non-existent. I've ordered them online and like them under a float tipped with a waxworm or Gulp maggot. Catches gills when others wont.

Originally Posted by kgalla02

Any of you guys down south ever think about applying some ice-fishing techniques? I'm just wondering and it is on my 'bucket list' to go south with my Plano box of ice-fishing jigs and see how I fare in the land of 2lb bluegill, . I basically use the same methods year round for bluegill/panfish in Michigan/SW Ontario and it works well around the docks, in the weedbeds, deep or shallow, spring/summer/fall/winter. You can jig these plastics, drop-shot 'em, fish 'em under a slip-bobber, et ... they work.

The plastics I'm picturing are called Ice Mites, Candy Plastic Domination Fry and Little Atom. The Little Atom is the singular red plastic with a tail coming off the ball and you'll see the purple Firetiger teardrop jighead where I cut the tail off the Little Atom to place just the round head on the teardrop hook. Same concept as a 'Jensen Egg', but smaller, & it works wonders.

The jigheads are 5mm & made out of tungsten, so they're small but heavy & drop fast. They come 3mm - 8mm. At first I was skeptical that I would catch anything of size on such a small hook, but I've even landed a few decent size carp/sheephead with those hooks and the bluegill gobble 'em up.

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I just got the tungsten bug last fall. I love the stuff....but it costs me a fortune. I only use it in deep water though. A 5mm bead on a #10 hook....with a Trout Magnet body works great for me. Just got a new knee or would be out there now fishing with them.

Regards

Originally Posted by Dutch552

Rapala Jigging Rap, one of the best kept secrets for southern panfish...shhhh....They're actually difficult to find since the ice fishing season is so variable to non-existent. I've ordered them online and like them under a float tipped with a waxworm or Gulp maggot. Catches gills when others wont.

I like to take the treble off and replace it with a single hook at times. You get into a big school of perch through the ice, it becomes downright incovenient getting 'em off that treble, . I was thinking about trying them around some docks in the spring and I saw a Youtube of someone fishing them in open water.

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

I just got the tungsten bug last fall. I love the stuff....but it costs me a fortune. I only use it in deep water though. A 5mm bead on a #10 hook....with a Trout Magnet body works great for me. Just got a new knee or would be out there now fishing with them.

Regards

Yeah, I was pretty resistent to the idea at first, but was won over after using them a few times. I like the weight & the way they fall. The cost does kind of raise eyebrows, but I was just buying a few at a time so I had a good supply when winter-ice rolled around.

K where ya order those at?

Did someone say ICE FISHING