What is your favorite bait for bluegill?

gulp angle worm and gulp 1" minnow. 

Small poppers on a fly rod

2" grub on a 1/32oz jighead. 

I've caught a few on small crankbaits like the SK Bitsy Minnow or the Rebel Crickhopper but I've done much better using live worms.

^{Say hello to my little friend......Senior Twister, on whatever jig head necessary for conditions.}

Any small crankbait......any small topwater lure......

rebel tad fry

For me its a little nymph under a bobber.

I love the gills on the fly rod.  I will tie up 1/64 jig head and maribu little buggers (most colors seem to work most of the time)  poppers are fun when they are really feeding hard and aggressive (the big ones don't have this mode too often)

 

The San Juan worm pattern is very fun too

 

you can adapt those patters to a rod and reel with a tiny casting bobber and work well but you will have to fuss a bit more with the depth

rebel tad fry

I've looked on eBay, amazon, tackle warehouse, and bass pro shop but I couldn't find that lure anywhere. Any advice on where to find one?

Can't beat the crawler. I've caught nice blue gill on crawlers up here. Biggest one i've caught was on a crawler actually

Small flys or poppers and a beetle spin.

Flys, beetle spin and gulp 1 inch minnow.

1" gulp minnow dropshotted on 2 lb line for me

^{Say hello to my little friend......Senior Twister, on whatever jig head necessary for conditions.}

 

we kill them on these things in northern wisconsin.  nothin beats a white mr. twister on 1/32 oz jighead for crappie and bluegill

What is your favorite bait for bluegill?

Berkely crappie nibbles

I've looked on eBay, amazon, tackle warehouse, and bass pro shop but I couldn't find that lure anywhere. Any advice on where to find one?

i got mine at wal-mart.

 

here is a link that sells them, but ive never ordered from there so i cant attest to their service...

http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/rebel-tadfry-frog-tad/0000000024006

The mighty nightcrawler is a sure hit. But so are red wigglers. 

 

Fav way to fish for bluegills are on long poles (like cane poles). Absolute blast.

I can get them on a 1/16 white rooster tail.

Rapala Mini Fat Rap. Before that it was the smallest size Kastmasters.

I was using the Rebel Crickhopper today and was catching a bunch of bluegill like 10+ I also caught 2 small largemouth bass on it. 

crickhopper is a good bait for bluegill and bass...

 

my old PB was caught on a crickhopper that had caught a bluegill. bass attacked the bluegill, jumped through the air like superman, i set the the hook which was in the bluegills mouth, watched the bluegill go down the basses throat in midair and my crickhopper snagged the bass in its mouth. i was glad to take the tradeoff from 4 inch bluegill to 4lb bass...

I like to use flies or Zoom flukes 4". Spoons work well. I seem to remember buying a package of six spoon lures for cheap from Blue Fox, or something like that, at Walmart. I was very surprised at how well they worked. They had a treble hook with fur tied on. 

My favorite is a 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail of any color. I have caught TONS on these little things.