somebody help me!!!! i wanna catch some freakin bluegill and have me a fish fry. i try everything. i throw bobber and cricket back in coves and quite water. i throw beetle spins and rooster tails around weed beds and docks. i verticle jig along peirs. nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've caught one dang shellcracker about 12 inches long, which is awesome. but still..... i need help!!!!!!!

I've been wearing them out lately with a yellow Bett's "Trim Gim" on a 5wt fly rod.  

i'm surprised you haven't got anything on the live bait or the inline spinners.... that is usually what i catch a ton of them on.

try a wooly bugger on a fly rod.

i use weightless size 8 or 10 hook with half piece of nightcrawler

i always get them no matter what the condtions are

i've always wanted to get around to learning the art of fly fishing. lol i guess now is as good a time as any. thanks for the advice guys.

is that peice of nightcrawler with or without a bobber?

use little pieces of shrimp on a size 12 treble 2' below a 1" bobber .......

like a small peice on each of the trebles?

they should be tearing the crickets up, perhaps you just need to try a different place. then again i was at smith mountain lake this weekend and decided to catch a small bluegill under the light on the dock using night crawlers so i could throw it out on a bigger hook and hope for a big catfish or bass to take it, and them little bluegill wouldnt bite or even look at my nightcrawler, yet earlier they were chasin around a 5in senko. and normally they would be all over that nightcrawler.

I was given a bit of advice from an old man about bream fishing. He said, take a #8 or #10 aberdeen and hook a live cricket downward thru the breast plate, starting just below the "chin". It ought to float on the top of the water with the hook shank acting as a keel.

According to him, if they won't take that, you should go find something else to do for the day. 

if you're not catching them on live bait, it's because they're not there.  My lake has lots of them, and between me and my fiance we got 23 in about a half hour yesterday... the bigger ones will not be under the dock, but still, if they're there, they will eat the live bait,  regardless of the conditions.

thanks for all the advice everyone!

this just in!!! went fishing today and within 2 hours had put 39 bluegill/shellcracker in the boat. live worm off the bottom

piece of worm and a small hook. No bobber needed

like a small peice on each of the trebles?

you want the piece of shrimp just big enough to cover two trebles , the fish will get hooked on the exposed treble .....

thanks for all the advice everyone!

this just in!!! went fishing today and within 2 hours had put 39 bluegill/shellcracker in the boat. live worm off the bottom

thanks for all the advice everyone!

this just in!!! went fishing today and within 2 hours had put 39 bluegill/shellcracker in the boat. live worm off the bottom

Some of the biggest bluegills and crappie  are in those Santee RCP pits/San Diego river bed.   Fished them from 1980-94, half those years you could drive to them, the other half we carried our float tubes in.  Very deep!

    Since minnows back then were 5.99 dz for crappie minnows, I elected to fish with 5 cent feeder goldfish.

   Some good bass, 6 crappie over 3 lbs came from those pits.   Just an ole navy guy who lived in Lakeside/El Cajon.

Use someone like this on 4# line  ... won't fail u

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