Crawdads for big Sunnies ???

[Fish Chris]

Anybody ever used tiny, live crawdads for sunnies ? Or more specifically, for big Redears ? I know I could catch a bunch of "cricket sized" dads..... Just wondering how they might work ?

 

Hmmmm...

Fish

[Badgerloader]

In northern WI, we used the tiny crawdads for gills & perch.  We also used the white meat from the tail for bait.  It seemed we caught bigger fish on crawdads.

[John Sheehan]

I've used them for Brown Trout with success  and Bass but not Gills.Recently while catching Gills flyrodding  Poppers I saw small Crawfish(Crawdads) in the shallow weed clumps so you got me thinking . How deep are you catching Gills and what time of day are you catching them ? I would like to employ this tactic at my local lake .Thanks!

[Fish Chris]

John, I have been catching the Gills are RE's in about 7 to 10ft. I haven't even started before 11am.But they have bit from the time I got there, until the time I left.

 

It's looking like I might be able to go again Monday, and for a few different reasons, it will probably be an earlier trip. Will post my results.

 

Peace,

Fish

 

 

[Fish Chris]

Hey Badger, and of course "bigger" is what we are after, right ?  :)

 

Fish