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PANFISH FISHING TIPS
  • Panfish - Bigger 'gills are in deeper water. 5 feet water will sometimes hold 'gills up to 1 pound! While you can easily catch small bluegill from the shore line, if you want some big ones look at the deep water. I've found that Worden's Rooster Tails, Johnson's Original Beetle Spin and 1'" chartreuse grubs on 1/64 pink jig-heads will rack up the panfish. Charles Slone
  • If you are fishing for perch or bluegill catch a small one first then cut little chunks of it off. Leave the skin on though it works better for me that way then just use a hook with a jig head that is weighted. Then just put the piece of meat on and jig it on the bottom. Tip from Nick Wooden, NV
  • The informatoin I am giving you is EXTREMLY useful for panfish.
    1 First you tie a small ( preferably shankless ) fly to the end of your line . Second - you you attach a bobber 2-4 feet from the fly. Third - you throw out your line and reel in the fly slowly, jerking often. Fourth - fight that fish !
    2 Get a size 6 hook ( panfish size ) and some "special kitty" cat food that's fish flavored and has holes. Second - hook the pieces that have holes and attach the smallest weight you can find, attach the weight so that it touches the hook. Third - attach a bobber 1 foot from the hook. Fourth - throw and reel.
    3 If your fishing with a floater or using the tips above, then you can throw out the cat food and start a feeding frenzy, BUT it work best if they've been fed feed for all their lives.
    From Ian
  • When fishing for sunnies or bluegill you should use very small hooks and buy some corn or use like less than half of a nightcrawler. You can also use little panfish bite things that you can buy at wallmart or a fishing store. Pink kinds work good. To set the hook wait till the fish starts moving you bobber and either twitch your rod to set the hook or reel it fast. Another good way to catch bluegill is fly fishing or using small shiny lures. Also use small jigs or small grubs too.
  • Minnows and curly white worms work good for crappie
  • A white black and red popper with a cricket on the hook is good for bluegill. Good fishing. Christian
  • You can catch dozens and dozens of green sunfish on one slice of bread. You can catch Crappie on crickets and they love minnows and little white twister tails. Cameron
  • Crickets work realy good on bluegill fake or real. Christian
  • The best way to catch bluegill is with wax worms. This drives them crazy. You can do this with any kind of rod open, closed, or baitcast make sure you a bobber and the smallest size hook you can find, and a snap swivel always comes in handy.Make sure you put at least 2 wax worms on the hook. This works best in summer. Catch a ton!!!! Ty-age 11 MI
  • To catch Bluegill use bacon
  • Bluegill - If you like bluegill fishing and the bluegill are active, use a beetle spin with out the split tails. Use a gold spinner in murky water and silver in clear water.
  • When I go fishing I put a leech at the end of the hook with a bober about 4 feet up. After a second or 2 set the hook and you will have a fish on. This strategy works good for panfish, walleye, bass, pike, gobys(what you dont want kill em if you catch one in michigan), trout, catfish, dogfish(bowfin).
  • If you want to catch a big fish use dogfood with a bobber. Wait for 5 seconds when the fish tugs.  It's good for catfish, bluegill or bass
  • Use a small eagle claw hook with a zoom green lizard I caught a 15" fish and 17" fish.
  • I've figured out on my recent trip to Pickwick Lake for my birthday that if you take a cricket (you may not believe but it works!) and put it on normal brim or small bass hooks (If a Bass Pro Shops is near you go there and buy a small bass kit! It's Awesome I've already cought over 15 nice bass (3lb+)) put two sinkers on your line also a medium sized bobber (you don't need to,but for some of us star gazers they come handy) around maybe 2 feet between your bobber & sinkers.Cast your  bait to or near a rock wall or a fallen tree near the bank.Wait a bit. Talk to our frinds or what ever and sooner or later thet big honkin catfish 'll come to ya!If you have a mangled hook in the end...don't worry.Just try to bend it back to shape and put another cricket on....if you can't just put another hook on . But  Cricket's are my favorite thing to use because almost every thing i know like 'em!Also try smaller spinner baits with long arms.Largies love 'em.Also if you want a good laugh or two get a cane pole, line, hook, and some lunch meat and fish off the dock.....I've caught a lot doing that with my grandma!--Good Luck and Happy Fish'n!--Ashleigh,11,TN
  • We use Bolonie and Bacon when we go fishin at our pond. It's good for perch, small bass, regular bass and big bass. Hope it works for you.
  • If you are fishing for roach or any other small fish, it is best not to cast out to far to the middle. I think that 3-4 meters would be just fine, and maggets seem to work but usually there are a few ones which are starting to turn to cacoons. DON`T avoid them, if you ask me they work the best..... from an experienced fisherman
  • Here is a tip if you are fishing for bluegill. You can use either wax worms or night crawlers. If you are fishing for trout use doughball. If you are fishing for catfish use magic bait dipped in hog wild. If you are fishing for pike use salted corn. Musky likes anything, let it set on the bottem and they will bite. Bass likes nightcrawlers. And carp like corn.
  • What fish bite by Cody
    • Bluegill-they love wax worms
    Carp-they love eather nightcrawler or corn
    Catfish-catfish  love worms.or the like doughballs.
    Rock bass- they love wax worms.
    Bass- they bite minnows.
    Walleye- the bite plastik bait.they love pumkin peper
    Muskey- eats any thing put a sicker on and let it sink to the bottem
    Sundads- they will kill a nightcrawler.
  • If you are using a sinker to catch bluegill, when they bite, wait till there is full tention, then wind in medium hard or barely jerk it up.
  • The best way to catch bluegill is to do the following: Put a half inch floater on then about 4-6 inches down put a small splitshot sinker on (this will help to hook the fish) put a baitholder hook on by SouthBend size 6. It is bronze withtwo brars on the back and Very sharp(use caution) at the tip. Split a nightcrawler and put half on a hook, then throw out. Wait till the floater has been underwater for at least half a second, then jerk gently. or wind in kinda hard.
  • Use corn to catch bluegills
  • Just use a jointed rapala. Pick size by how big the fish get in the lake or river. And the rainbow trout color it works for almost anything. all kinds of bass, pickeral, perch, trout, sunfish.
  • When fishing with minnows, take an empty, clear, water bottle and punch holes in it with a phillips head screwdriver. then put about a dozen live minnows in it. Next, tie it to your boat or dock about 3 feet down and use a live minnow lure about 2 feet away from the bottle. this will catch em every time. works best in the spring.
  • Take a suet feeder and stuff bread and cheese in it and put it next to the bobber. It will atract more fish
  • Baits to use that are the best
  • Striped bass - clams, crabs, bunker, or Herring, bloodworms, sandworms. Bluefish- squid strips, little minnows, bunker, or herring
    Largemouth bass - krayfish, night crawlers or worms, bugs, and little bait fish, or corn
    Smallmouth bass- bugs, corn, worms, or some food bright like light colers for ex. corn or pepperoni.
    Perch- night crawlers, or worms and somtimes bugs.
    Catfish- anything!
    Bullheads (baby catfish)- anything.
    Sunnys - anything.
    Snappers- minnows or bait fish
    Flounder / Fluke - bloodworms, sandworms, clams, squid strips.
  • Two years ago I ended using a bobber with a grasshopper. I don't use a bobber any more but I caught a LOT of fish with a bobber. For beginers use a bobber and a grasshopper will catch you a lot of fish.
  • It is a good idea to fish in the morning or at night because it is nice and cool and the fish bite more when it is cooler
  • Boil water and cornmeal and add 2 tablespoons of pancake syrup.  And one Tablespoon of extract vanilla (for smell).  Works great with Carp and Catfish.
  • When your at a pond that has a whole lot of rocks in and around it try using a #10 hook with a small square of cheese around the larger rocks that you can see.
  • If you are trying to catch bluegill, you need to cast your line out by a live tree or really good fertile soil.
  • While making dough add a cheeslet  . the smell will atract more fish!!!
  • Coat all your artificial lures and even some live ones with bacon grease even use a piece of bacon fat as bait, fish love the grease.
  • Some fish like...catfish+carp-love bread
                               perch+sunfish-like stinky cheese
                               chub+catfish-love hot dogs
                               largemouth bass-like minnows+night crawlers
                               smallmouth bass-like crickets

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