Common Black Field Cricket

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Comment by Leo Nguyen on May 15, 2012 at 9:14am

Crickets are truly candies to all of site hunting species. I caught bass, crappie, gill, sunny, carp, trout, and salmon on crickets, floating and sinking rigs. I just love the floating rig, and see them fly out of the water, as they snatch the crickets plus the hooks, causing the rods to bend like a reed in the wind.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on May 15, 2012 at 8:53am

Catch some and use them if you have them available where you live......I like the size of the big black field crickets.....I had several that were an inch and a half long and you can count on a larger fish striking these bigger baits......may not always be a gill but that's alright! I like to tip my favorite color jig as well for big Crappie....it's candy I tell you....I don't divulge all my secrets but this works.....

Comment by Tony Livingston on May 14, 2012 at 5:14pm

Very true, I grew up digging worms as that was the bait of choice. I honestly don't remember when I made the switch to waxies and maggots, although I'm betting ice fishing had something to do with it......

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on May 14, 2012 at 5:07pm

A lot of it Tony is what baits you were introduced to when you began fishing......My grandfathers old Ford always had a stench to it from a cricket cage that was always tagging along for a chance to break out the cane pole....In the South I never saw waxies or maggots for sale so I never tried them......

Comment by Tony Livingston on May 14, 2012 at 5:01pm

It's interesting to me to see the different live baits that we BG anglers use. Crickets must surely be one that is considered universal, no matter the location. However.... I'm 46 years old, and have never used crickets. I've never bought that first one!

I bought a container of redworms this past weekend, just so the boys could experience fishing with them, and those were the first worms I had used in probably 15 years.

I also have never used nightcrawlers, although I have certainly gathered up many hundreds for use by friends and relatives. Since discovering maggots and waxworms long ago, my live bait all comes in sawdust!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on May 14, 2012 at 4:38pm

I would believe it, I fight with mockingbirds all the time......if I don't put the top on my cricket cages they will fly in my garage and help themselves! They also catch the ones that get loose in the boat and come out at dusk......He just perches on my seat and drops in the boat when one comes out.....

Comment by Leo Nguyen on May 14, 2012 at 4:28pm

Wow, this look like the Asian cricket that we used to catch in Vietnam as bait. The funny thing is, we can't seem to find any more cricket around our neck of the urban jungle. It's like the birds got to them all or something. I released a lot, and I mean a lot, of crickets around our neighborhood. I noticed there were more house sparrows in the past year than normal. Could have been influenced by the en masse releases of my crickets during last summer and fall.