SunFish Bait Question

**Fisher_Girl_Kitti** · 01-22-2013, 11:15 AM

i have a lot of gear. and by a lot i mean a tackle box so full nothing more can really be squeezed into it. and its a three tier box too!

im actually wishing for a job this year(even if its part time) so i can save up for things i need, want, whatever.

but i do hope that things will get better to where i can go fishing again. i might talk to the person that got me fishing from the start and go on a trip with him. hell i still need to get my gear from him........

**wademaster** · 01-22-2013, 01:31 PM

I'd try the pill bugs. Never hurts to try.

**wademaster** · 01-22-2013, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER

When I was a kid I use to pick up any bug I could find in grass and under every rock to use as bait. Had more luck with grasshoppers than the bugs but back then I didn't know about gills feeding on the bottom. Those bugs may work bottom fishing? Not sure. If you will send me your address in a PM I'll send you some small jigs and flies for gill fishing. I know, I'll tell you how to use the flies. You can use a small float above the fly around 3 to 4' (what ever you feel you can throw out right). Once you throw out let the float set until the rings in the water disappear then start working the float back to you in short pulls. The fly will be working behind the float and you will need to watch the fly for bites. Lots of fun and this way you can get in on some top water fishing for gills.

Do you have any flys that you can use with a float that don't stay on top of the water?? I like this method for crappie too

**deathb4disco** · 01-22-2013, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Fisher_Girl_Kitti

i prefer the free stuff that you can get right outside your back door. either that, around the barn.

Google "black soldier fly".

Search this site, also. There are at least a couple of threads where they're mentioned.

**Fisher_Girl_Kitti** · 01-22-2013, 01:44 PM

the pill bugs sink so i thought those would be really great for bottom fishing for the gills on a small hook(smallest i have is a #10 snelled hook which i think would be perfect). since they are so abundant they can be used as a chum or whatever to draw them in along the shore. specially during the warm days where its comfy.

**STUMP HUNTER** · 01-23-2013, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by wademaster

Do you have any flys that you can use with a float that don't stay on top of the water?? I like this method for crappie too

All of the small jigs 1/64 down and the beadhead flies work well under a float. I use a float a lot while bream fishing with my rod/reel or fly fishing. PM sent

**Locator79** · 01-23-2013, 03:22 PM

Hard to get them on the hook, when they are rolling all over the boat.

**Fisher_Girl_Kitti** · 01-23-2013, 03:50 PM

not if you dont have a boat

**split handle** · 01-25-2013, 06:28 PM

Bottom line: Nobody has replied that they tried them but they didn't work. You know where to find lots of pill bugs. They're natural. They're free. Try 'em.

**bxn** · 01-25-2013, 08:11 PM

here is something i find usefull to do.when you find used and torn plastic bass baits at places people fish and they discard,take them and with a razor blade cut the used bass worms into tiny slivers,and strips that will fit on small hooks and use them for bait.i like to tip small ice jigs with tiny plastic slices and fish that under a float and in open not frozen water usually.this has gotten me fish in numerous places,even got some little saltwater fish on it in a river i fish a lot.and i have caught pumpkinseed sunfishes on that same little worm bait you have tipped on a ice jig but in chartreuse with speckle in it

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