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

Here's a start.

1. Nightcrawlers
2. Minnows
3. Crickets

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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!
9. Mousies
10. Helgramites (wigglers)
11. Grasshoppers
12. Catalpa worms
13. Tree frogs
14. June bugs
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
great discussion bruce.
1 crickets
2 junebugs
3 worms
4 tiny frogs
5 crawdads
6 mussels
1. Crickets
2. Crickets
3. Crickets
4. Worms if Crickets are all gone
Oh yeah, I caught hundreds as a kid on tiny bread dough balls, then I heard about crickets.
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
23.Hot Dogs
24.Bacon (it actually has great action in the water)
Earthworms
Crickets
Catalpa worms
white bread - first bait ever used, on a hand line
gator fleas
mealey worms
We use

1.night crawlers (in half)
2.mealworms
3. grasshoppers
4.assorted insects
1. Crickets
2. Crickets
3. Crickets
4. Im with bluegillboogieman. Nothing beats crickets. Salt water shrimp and worm if no crickets though.
1. Japanese Beatles
2. Nightcrawlers
3. Grasshoppers
4. Minnows

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