What kind of bait do you suggest for panfish. I can only catch them on live worms. Anything you can think of. Thank you for your time

1/32 ounce wordens roostertail and 1/8 ounce blue fox in line spinners for me

Small Roostertails in white/grey or white/black spots.

Use a barrel swivel to help reduce line twist.

Small white curly tail grub (1/2 inch is best if you can find them or a 1 inch as the largest) on a 1/64 jig head.  Once again, use a swivel to help reduce line twist.

Gulp!'s yellow perch bait in the jar.

White bread rolled into small beads and placed on your #6 gold hook.

Small kernals of cooked corn out of the can.

Peices of Nightcrawlers or other worms.

If you want to attract the panfish to your area then take some white bread, tear it up into peices and throw it on top of the water where you will be fishing.

I catch panfish on strike king bisty pond minnow crankbaits and bomber fat A #3. For some reason the bass and crappie love these baits too.

For panfish i would say nightcrawlers. then again I'm trying to get out of the live bait kick so this thread should help me also

Live Crickets  

Live Crickets

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x3 on crickets. Red wiggler worms.

For artificials - small beetle spins. Johnson Beetle Spins will catch anything.

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Bass Pro Shops Squirmin Squirts in 66 (RED CORE/CHARTREUSE) Is one of my favorite lures for panfish. Rig it with either a 1/32 or 1/16th jid head. You can swim it, Work it like a tube, and put it under a slip bobber and just let it dangle over the fish and they will go to it.

Trout Magnets, or tiny tubes on the jighead that comes with Trout Magnets, also Powerbait Nymphs work well on these jigheads too. I don't use any bobber, I just slowly twitch it along the bottom.

I like any small inline spinner. When they change up, I like Berkley Gulp earthworms. I used six jars last year. The panfish bite can change in a matter of seconds, so I usually have plenty of artificials and live bait. My all time best winner is a live cricket under a slip bobber. That and the Gulp, put alot of gills in the fryer last year.

I'd use a 2" curly tail on a 1/16 oz. jig head. Have caught thousands of panfish - bluegill & crappie - on these. Colors would be dictated by the waters you fish. I've never known them to fail.

Live Crickets

Dont the crickets break apart fairly easy/fast?

What kind of bait do you suggest for panfish. I can only catch them on live worms. Anything you can think of. Thank you for your time

Do you buy your earthworms or just dig them up ? I ask as I am not far from you(Doral)  and looking for live worm bait shop?

I have dug them up but have only found so many.

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I use redworms.  I have caught warmouth on 4" senkos and had a day last year when I caught a few nice blue gill on a 1/2 spinnerbait.

When I fish for bigger ones I like Rocket Shads, floating rapalas, and jointed shad raps. For any size you cant beat an inline.

well if you are not afraid to get your feet wet, walk in the water (about 6 inches-1 foot) and dig through the sand and retrieve some clams. crack them open and use the meat of the clam. catches bream, cichlids,and all kinds of small fish. the meat will stay on the hook for a couple of fish. the best thing is they are free.

Rooster tails and 1 1/2" squirmin squirts.

What kind of bait do you suggest for panfish. I can only catch them on live worms. Anything you can think of. Thank you for your time

Do you buy your earthworms or just dig them up ? I ask as I am not far from you(Doral) and looking for live worm bait shop?

I have dug them up but have only found so many.

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i buy them at any shop i go to. Much easier.

YUM 2" wooly beavertail either on a jighead or dropshot. Black with pink tail is my go to.  

catawba worms, crickets, small doughballs, black/yellow bettle spins

The best- Round denny poppin bug especially during the may fly hatch.

Crickets hold up very well; another excellent bait is Hominy Corn  

Small tube jigs under a float.

a 2" senko wacky rig, catches bass, bluegill, crappie...

x3 on crickets. Red wiggler worms.

For artificials - small beetle spins. Johnson Beetle Spins will catch anything.

2x.  Gills in my pond love the beetle spin.  I have also had good luck with poppers and nymphs on a fly rig - that's fun.