Thread: What was your best bait this year that caught them guills and all?

LV, I forgot to include this hybrid that I came up with using the pearl tail of one grub and attaching it to the larger red/laminate grub body:



This profile shows a thicker body that is better matched to the tail, giving the lure a chunky profile and tail to match.
The whole idea of hybrid plastics is the change in profile, size and action that may make all the difference.

Originally Posted by Damion Kidd

I second the slider grub. This was my first summer targeting gills and crackers several times. When a buddy told me to cut off a couple rings it was a game changer. Under a float some and also casting and bumping it along bottom.


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Are you using the 1 inch slider grubs or are you cutting off the 1 1/2 size .

Originally Posted by snakeeater

Same here in Abalama...hard to beat a Dollar Store dog for catching big gills, especially on a 35 degree morning! Last two days they wouldn't touch a nymph under a bobber but slammed the dogs...

A small chunk of hotdog?

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

A small chunk of hotdog?

Gills love ‘em.

1/4 inch cubes of cheap hotdogs lightly dried in the sun on a number 8 wire hook are just deadly

Gaines Mini Pop. Couldn't post a picture but Gaines is a small company in Gaines Pennsylvania that makes fantastic fly fishing lures. The Minipop is tough and will last for a hundred gills. Ck em out!

Originally Posted by gillchaser999

One of best gill lure I’ve ever used .
I’ve been recently tying some 1/64th and even some 1/32nds .
I’m going back to tying 1/80th and 1/100 . I think the lighter jigs fall slower and I think they draw more bites .

Gillchaser, what are you tying in for the tail in that micro bugger?

Originally Posted by woodyard

Gillchaser, what are you tying in for the tail in that micro bugger?

Bunny hair cut from a zonker strip .
I also use mallard flank feathers and marabou feathers.