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Basic arsenal for a bluegill forage base?

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What are you guys color choices, and favorite lures when chasing bass in a bluegill lake?  

chatterbaits with a black, brown, and chartruese skirt, spinners with some sort of 'truese in it, cranks with a brown back, 'truese sides and some sort of orange on the belly. starting to see a pattern here?  :(

if all else fails, ill offer em somthing different, like a creature bait or soft stick bait.

-j

Mattlures bluegill would probably be a good start ;D

For bluegill based water systems, I use lures that have green and chartruse in them.  That goes for jigs, soft plastics, crankbaits, topwaters...the works.  If those lures fail, I go with craw colors with blacks, blues, and reds in them.

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My PB was caught on a Norman Fat Boy, bluegill pattern!

8-)

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Forage base matters little, what you need is to have the assortment of lures:

1.- Soft plastic baits

2.- Jigs

3.- Spinnerbaits

4.- Crankbaits

The main bass forage in Mexico are in this order: Tilapia, Carp, Bluegills, minnows, shiners, crawfish, frogs, insects, mud dogs.

So, in theory I should pick lures that mimic tilapia or carp, but bass don 't read no bass fishing books nor watch DVDs and videos, bass don 't know that they should only strike tilapia or carp imitating lures.

I don 't believe in "match the hatch" theory, why ? cuz spinnerbaits don 't look like anything a bass could eat in nature and they catch fish, cuz I catch fish with trout imitating lures ( most bass here have never seen a trout ); I know bass are bass here and all around the world, I know that as long as the bait looks and moves like if it 's alive ( not that it looks to what the fish have as forage base ) and an easy prey bass will strike it.

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6" Smoke Senko, wacky rigged.

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