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Please don't judge me I have a buying problem.
I like that set up may I ask were to find one?
Welcome to the group the jugement free zone of buying.. all I can say my name is Tom and I have the same problems lols just kidding my name is not tom!
Wow, you guys use a lot of jigs. I rarely ever use jigs, most of the time I have a rattle spoon or slender spoon on. Then again I’m usually fishing for perch, bass or trout. bluegills are an invasive species here, and the lakes I fish most don’t have them, or not in numbers at least. The sunfish I catch are usually pumpkinseeds and those aren’t schooled up in numbers like gills.
Don’t you use jigs when fishing Perch.....works well on a neutral to off bite.
Well the wax worms I tip the spoons with usually seal the deal. The only days I didn’t catch them were when I couldn’t find them. Every time I thought I needed to down size to a jig, I find out the fish teasing me on my screen were either 3” perch or golden shiners. I catch plenty of those guys as it is, even with the small rattle spoons and chubby darters. In my area, perch are considered junk fish that steal bait . I’ve yet to run into another person on a lake here actually targeting them or any panfish. I’m always the only one jigging, while everyone around me are just setting traps targeting trout, land locked salmon (Atlantic), or bass. Other than here on IS or MFF, I don’t get to talk to any Mainers about panfish. Even then, the locals prefer eating the white perch and crappie, I just release everything I catch anyway. So there are lots of grub filled perch in most of our lakes, and there is no limit if anyone wants them. As a side note, because not many around here actually target panfish, I don’t have the option of using spike unless I want to mail order them. No one around here sells anything but shiners and various earth worms. I have get my wax worms from the pet store I work at . Oddly though, I found that at least this one day, the white perch in this particular lake wouldn’t bite my spoon even with wax worms, but anything with a chunk of night crawler got destroyed