Every possible bait.

[Bruce Condello]

Let's name all of the live baits we've used for bluegill.

Here's a start.

1. Nightcrawlers
2. Minnows
3. Crickets

[John Cachel]

1. Leaf Worms
2. Giant Redworms
3. Leeches
4. Minnows
5. Crickets
6. Waxworms....ice fishing or tip on jig
7. Spikes (maggots) ice fishing or tip on jig
8. small nightcrawlers.... I dont like break half nightcrawlers for bait!

[Bill "Musky" Modica]

9. Mousies
10. Helgramites (wigglers)
11. Grasshoppers
12. Catalpa worms
13. Tree frogs
14. June bugs

[IceWarriorGill]

15. Grubs
16. Moths
17. Tiny Lizards
18. Tiny Crayfish
19. Freshwater Shrimp
20. Freshwater Mussels
21. Baby Bull Frogs (2-3 inches)
22. Mealworms

[Josh Holley]

great discussion bruce.
1 crickets
2 junebugs
3 worms
4 tiny frogs
5 crawdads
6 mussels

[bluegillboogieman]

1. Crickets
2. Crickets
3. Crickets
4. Worms if Crickets are all gone

[bluegillboogieman]

Oh yeah, I caught hundreds as a kid on tiny bread dough balls, then I heard about crickets.

[brant smith]

1. garden worms
2. pink worms
3. blue nose worms
4. salt water shrimp
5. thin strip of squid
6. blood worms
7. crickets
8. small grass hoppers
9. cockroaches
10. small caterpillars
11. pieces of night crawler
12. cicadas

[Frosch]

23.Hot Dogs
24.Bacon (it actually has great action in the water)

[Mac]

Earthworms
Crickets
Catalpa worms
white bread - first bait ever used, on a hand line
gator fleas
mealey worms

[Sarah T.]

We use

1.night crawlers (in half)
2.mealworms
3. grasshoppers
4.assorted insects

[Tommy Winton]

1. Crickets
2. Crickets
3. Crickets
4. Im with bluegillboogieman. Nothing beats crickets. Salt water shrimp and worm if no crickets though.

[mike rowden]

1. Japanese Beatles
2. Nightcrawlers
3. Grasshoppers
4. Minnows