Thread: The gills on my lake are really negative lately..

I'm hardly an experienced fisherman, so I don't know the different feeding habits for different times of the year, but I can't get the gills in my local pond to even nibble at a jig. With earthworms I'll get a handful of them but that's about it. What are you fishing with?

Have U had a big change in temp??? Sometimes it makes a big difference here in NC

might be a good idea to check out their stomach contents if you keep a few.

lately the bigger gills in the streams and lakes near me have been feeding on small crayfish and thus have been slamming Berkley Nymphs in "toad" color.
Strange thing is they have turned their noses up at tiny minnows, nightcrawlers, other artificials etc. The only other bait they showed interest in was leaches. But the nymph still outpreformed. I imagine if I had tried tiny crayfish I would have done well also.

Fish on the beds are very skittish. If they see or hear you, they probably won't hit.

The fish are off the beds right now in my neck of the woods. I've been doing very well on maggots.

I have been using worms, and even tried a brim reaper.