Author Topic: Best Gill Tackle? (Read 5054 times)

smoker9000 · « **on:** Oct 11, 2005, 11:36 AM »

So I'm still pretty new to ice fish'n, what do you guys think the best bluegill bait and tackle is?

C.C. · « **Reply #1 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 11:43 AM »

Smoker, if you go to the bluegill section under tip's you will get all kind's of info.
Jim

smoker9000 · « **Reply #2 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 11:53 AM »

Not really Jim, it starts out with some good chum ideas and turns into an argument, but thanks any how.

ice dude · « **Reply #3 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 12:30 PM »

a very sensitive noodle rod, #16-14 jig, red and/or white spikes. dont forget the vexilar

Swedish__Pimple · « **Reply #4 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 01:13 PM »

Only thing ice dude forgot is to never sit you're rod down,jig until you're hand falls off

rico · « **Reply #5 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 04:53 PM »

hey jimmy that looks like one of the pictures i e-mailed you

...lmao

take heart smoker, all you need is a sensitive pole and a good place to fish, there are "pros" on this site, hook up with one of them and they will show you all you need to know.... by the way, i prefer waxworms and white spikes along with a vexilar!!!!!!!

Swedish__Pimple · « **Reply #6 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 05:19 PM »

HERES ANOTHER PIC YOU SENT ME TOO RICO .LMMFAO

Greg2ha · « **Reply #7 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 06:08 PM »

Smoker, I agree with Ice Dude. My two favorite poles were made by Brent Gaff with
spring bobbers on the ends. Can't say enough about his rods! If you ever fish Chain O
Lakes(NobleCo), stop in and check them out. As far as jigs go I make my own out of
#16 and # 18 fly hooks wrapped with lead thread.(easy to make and cheap!). But the
MOST! IMPORTANT ITEM FOR GILLS OR ANY PANFISH THROUGH THE ICE IS A VEXILAR! There is nothing else more important than this item. I didn't always have
one or couldn't justify the cost of buying one until a friend showed me his. An absolute must have!
Later Greg

ChapstickCharlie · « **Reply #8 on:** Oct 11, 2005, 06:34 PM »

My mother in law. Best bait, best incentive, best anything. Nothing gets me out of the house nor keeps me out longer, which is what you need to catch gills, then my mother in law. Unfortunately for me you can’t have her. But there are substitutes you can use, like an ugly girlfriend (or boyfriend, don’t wanna be sexist here) or maybe try getting married. That worked for my buddies.
In the event that these methods don’t produce, then I have read on here about what they call tightlining with small diameter test line and about a #12 teardrop jig tipped with a single beemoth. Or is that called sightlining? Anyway no bobber is used, you just watch your line for movement and whammo! Set the hook like you were backhanding away a comment from the mother in law about why you get laid off every winter just in time for ice season.

Rotney72 · « **Reply #9 on:** Oct 12, 2005, 01:53 PM »

marmooskas...rat finkees...red and white spikes... hot soup ...vexilar

ChapstickCharlie · « **Reply #10 on:** Oct 12, 2005, 10:13 PM »

Louisiana hot sauce in that soup. And some sausages fryin on the lantern.

smoker9000 · « **Reply #11 on:** Oct 13, 2005, 10:04 PM »

Thanks for the advice guys, by the way I am a guy and I do have a wife, and also I can't afford a vexlar, how about one of those that looks like a flash light any good?

ice dude · « **Reply #12 on:** Oct 13, 2005, 10:28 PM »

those are mostly just for getting depth reading. you can catch em without a flasher.

ChapstickCharlie · « **Reply #13 on:** Oct 13, 2005, 11:08 PM »

Yeah those flashlight style depth readers are nice cause depth is critical, but a vex like sniffer is a whole nother world. Thing is, people were catching limits before vexs came along so don't worry, just grab what ya got and go. luck.

Piggyn · « **Reply #14 on:** Oct 14, 2005, 12:17 PM »

Swedish__Pimple,

Is that a hybrid sunfish in your second picture?

Swedish__Pimple · « **Reply #15 on:** Oct 14, 2005, 03:43 PM »

Hybrid gill

rico · « **Reply #16 on:** Oct 14, 2005, 04:24 PM »

Quote from: Swedish__Pimple on Oct 14, 2005, 03:43 PM

Hybrid gill

did you ever put him back in the aquarium? lmao....

Swedish__Pimple · « **Reply #17 on:** Oct 14, 2005, 06:15 PM »

HEAK NO RICO,I KEPT EM OUTTA THE WATER TO LONG HE DIED
LMMFAO

goggleye57 · « **Reply #18 on:** Oct 15, 2005, 09:06 PM »

Light line, light pole, spikes, ice flies, vexilar - work that jig up and down jiggling it up and down from the bottom to the top of the water column. Watch the line! I see more bites than I feel. Got to drill a whole lotta holes!

goggleye57 · « **Reply #19 on:** Oct 15, 2005, 09:14 PM »

If you can't afford a Vexilar look for a used Zercom.They were bought out by Humingbird? But they don't make em anymore. I have one that I bought for $35 on ebay and it works almost as well. Black and white no color but its real-time like a vex. My old vexilar down and it worked pretty well do a search on ebay and see what you come up with.

asphalt_kid · « **Reply #20 on:** Oct 16, 2005, 09:37 PM »

The best gill tackle that I prefer is the traditional 3 point stance used by linemen on a football team , thats my starting point. Then I explode towards the ice hole and with a bit of steam I hit them gills right in the lips with a hard jerk and whaammmoooo!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats my best gill tackle

rico · « **Reply #21 on:** Oct 17, 2005, 05:24 PM »

Quote from: asphalt_kid on Oct 16, 2005, 09:37 PM

The best gill tackle that I prefer is the traditional 3 point stance used by linemen on a football team , thats my starting point. Then I explode towards the ice hole and with a bit of steam I hit them gills right in the lips with a hard jerk and whaammmoooo!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats my best gill tackle

movement on the line...is that a five yard penalty?

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Author Topic: Best Gill Tackle? (Read 5054 times)