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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Bluegill => Topic started by: shwung79 on Jan 05, 2004, 02:33 PM
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I overheard some guys talking about the nice gills they were catching using spoons. I didnt want to look like I was being nosey so I didnt ask them. But anyways have you ever used "spoons"?? What kind?
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Kevin
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swedish pimple. thats what i use for everything, even gills sometimes.
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My favorite is a small rocker made by the DOT. Red or chartreuse green! Good Luck!
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Swedish Pimple, You can catch anything on a pimple. Hali jigs also work good also.
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Swedish Pimple,,huh. I make might have to look into that one, never tried it. Do you usually bait it?
Kevin
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I use Spike's or Waxies. I also like to use a sweedish pimple with a hali chain. We used a Hali jig with the chain on it and they wouldnt hit it you had to have the pimple with the Hali chain.
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Custom jigs and spins stinger is perhaps the best small spoon for ice fishing. They are thin, almost like a teardrop, and have a great fluttering action. Tipped with a waxy or a maggot, they are deadly for panfish, and all finicky larger predators like bass, walleye, and trout.
The smallest swedish pimple, the 1/10 ouncer, is about an inch long and works great tipped with bait for any panfish.
Tyler
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You can also try the Kastmaster, you can get these in pretty small sizes.
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1/10th ounce Swedish pimple....tipped with spikes
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i've had great success with the kastmaster
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I was perching yesterday in 32 FOW and was getting some decent gills mixed in - they would pound a 1/16 ounce Lindy Forage Minnow spoon - that is one of my favorite all around panfish baits...
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I just started using the Forage Minnow Jigging Spoon from Northland Tackle... the smallest size in charteuse was killing them last week (of course we had ice then)... the perch loved them too.
This is the single hook model... not the treble-hooked.
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i like the red forage minnow spoon with the treble hook and i tip them with minnow heads or spikes, the perch hammer these spoons also.
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Just wanted to bring this back up and see what everyone is using now.
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wow, old thread, but no change to the anwer.. Northland forage minnow spoon and northland eye dropper, both a are go to gill spoons
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wow, old thread, but no change to the anwer.. Northland forage minnow spoon and northland eye dropper, both a are go to gill spoons
Old thread indeed! Northland eye dropper...going to have to check that one out.
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I guess I can always add to it... ;D
Forage Minnow spoon
Doodle Bug spoon
Daredevel spoon
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Forage Minnow,Frosty spoons, Demon spoon,Flicker spoon and Stinger spoon,they all fish heavy and are great for true bulls,for a different look I've had great luck on Slender spoons,they are very light and have a different flutter to them.I use it a lot the last two years,I like a T-boned wax worm on them,but that's just me,I felt that gills like wax worms better than anything.Also have used a little trout lure not sure of the name but they come two in a pack small spoon,single hook and two little metal flippers,I think it's called a hildenbrandt,also killed monster bulls last year on late ice with a Frisbee spoon,fishes heavy get down quick,tipped with a wax/worm I pounded huge bulls 9- 10 1/4 inches for two days on this combo then they where gone.
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(http://www.yakimabait.com/catalog/images/T/xctmpqqSOpY.png)
That Hildebrandt lure is called a Flicker Spinner.
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The Little Shaver is another spoon I will use sometimes for crappies.
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Slipperybob,that's the lure I'm talking about you may call it a Flicker,but the other Flicker I mentioned is made by Gapen 1 /32 oz. hologram lure.
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I've got the Flicker spoon from Gapen too. I like the smallest Perch and Blue Shad patterns. I like the holographic tape and they both glow too.
The Flicker Spinner from Hildebrandt only shares the flicker name. Totally different lures. ;D
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Not much for spoons on 'gills but the Kodiak micro and mini Goblin have worked well. Getting pretty hard to find these days
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Swedish Pimple works for everything! I use a #2 for perch & panfish a #3 or 4 for trout and bass, and a #8 for pike. You can't go wrong with these babies!
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i wish i could see a swedish pimple in the water so i can mimic the action
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might have to try some of the forage minnow spoons in smaller sizes
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Better with the trebel or single hook?
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When in doubt, snippe off one of the treble hooks and make it into a double hook. ;D
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Demon Spoon from CJ&S.
Macho Minnow in 1/12th
Northland Doodle Bug spoon; remove the treble, put a size 8 or 10 Siwash hook on it, tbone a couple waxies or spikes and you're golden.
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Yesterday I jigged up some decent bluegills with a hali (perch color) and a kodiak perpetual motion (goldfish color) tipped with waxworms. Somedays color might matter, but yesterday they just liked the presentation and waxies.
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When in doubt, snippe off one of the treble hooks and make it into a double hook. ;D
haha
Sure if you can't decide go for it! ;D
I usually use the single but when using the bigger ones for pike I leave the treble on...
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It's been so long and so many new spoons have came out or old ones have be re-discovered.
Since then VMC Flash Champ is made of a copycat lure from ACME Kastmaster. Now there's 1/24th oz and even 1/32 oz in weights available
Reins Palpuntin spoons. The smallest one in 2g weight. Amazing, very small barbs on the treble hook.
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We have been having good luck with Clams bomb spoons the last few year's.
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The lure I always start with is a VMC rattle spoon. My second choice spoon is a CJ&S slender spoon.
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I also like a Slender Spoon or a Northland Forage Minnow Spoon. I swap out the trebles for a dropper chain and quality no. 8 or 10 hook
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Since nobody else has mentioned it, Lindy quiver spoon has been very good to me for bluegill in the 1/16 oz size tipped with a waxie or plastic.
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Good ole Lindy Frostee spoon has been my overall best, but the C J & S Slender Spoon is not far behind.
The 1/32 oz Northland Forage is a really good size for gills, but hasn't caught the most for me.
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CJ&S slender spoon is a sweet little spoon, ad has done very well for me in the past, and these last couple of years i've been having great success with the smallest Pinhead Mino spoon by Clam. for such a small profile, it fishes heavy and yet doesn't overpower an ultralight noodle rod. very very impressed with it.
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Kastmaster 1/24 oz silver/glow with one or two spikes.