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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Bluegill => Topic started by: PikeFisherman325 on Dec 28, 2015, 01:18 PM
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I was wondering of some good spoons for bluegill and what you tip the spoons with if you tip them.
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My favorite spoon for bluegill is a 1/16th ounce slender spoon.
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I've always done well with the smallest size frostee spoon or demon spoon. I tip with a wax worm or a couple spikes. Always done well on the bigger bluegills with that but also catch a lot of crappies and perch on that setup too.
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Smallest Demon jigging spoon, with the hook changed out to a #14 VMC treble. 3-6 spikes on it. Of course I target crappie with it, but the bigger bluegills have no problem hitting it. Clown color is the one you want. Avoid the shiner and blue colors, have never done any good on those. Have had many, many, 100+ crappie days with the clown jigging spoon. Last year there was a week straight where I was limiting (if I was keeping them) on 8-9" bluegills and 10-12" crappies on the clown while everyone around me was catching 5 or 6 fish a day on traditional jigs.
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Thanks for the input, I'll have to get these lures and try them. :) :) :)
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Little Cecils and their copies, Micks, Carnivore, etc. If I had to take one and only one lure on the ice it would be a Little Cecil. Fish it naked, tip it with a Whip plastic hooked at a right angle, or hang a waxie, spike, whatever on it. Use favorite colors for your area. I almost feel bad posting this, bad for the fish that is.
Duke
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thanks for the reply! I need to check those out! :tipup:
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have caught them on slender spoons 1/16oz, mostly prefer jigs so i can see where they are. spoons go out of site and then come back in and fishing two lines makes a big mess with spoons.
when i do spoon fish, it is with slender spoons or swedish pimples for deeper water.
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Northland Forage Minnow
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1/16oz Slender Spoons here, best luck so far has been on Silver with Chart sticker on it, plan to try other colors and other spoons more this season
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I also like the smallest size Slender Spoons, as well as the Forage Minnow. Almost always swap out the treble for a quality hook on a dropper chain. Usually tip with a wax worm or a couple spikes. To be fair, I fish a lot of jigs with plastic as well.
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I have had really good success with the pk predator. They just hammer it.
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Kicking it with the smallest Daredevle spoon, skeeter, next to forage minnow spoon.
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kastmaster, slender spoons, swedish pimples, tiped with spikes or plastics.
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kastmaster, slender spoons, swedish pimples, tiped with spikes or plastics.
this right here!! I just finished up fishing today, pounded gills crappie perch and bass on these 3.
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Usually do not fish spoons for gills, but when I do it is usually a pimple or slender spoon. Most have a dropper/hali chain and a single hook.
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I've caught them on buckshot rattle before
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any demon with a waxy or spike. Sometimes the color is critical so get several colors. Pierce the waxy or spike right behind the head so it flops around alot.
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Demon spoon , forage minnow and the small slender spoon for sure - my 2 ct s
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forage and slenders is what i use. however, get yoruself some nice forceps. if they are clobbering them, getting trebles out of their mouths is an enormous pain. i have a few that i put long aberdeens on and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
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If I were to specifically target gills with a spoon I'd probably only use a little Cecil and Hali with a dropper and glow bead and maybe a tiny kastmaster
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I've had good luck with a number 2 chrome with the green strip Swedish Pimples and perch colored Forage Minnows in 1/16 ounce both tipped with a waxy.
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How do you guys work/jig those little spoons? I remember a couple years ago I tried and lost a small slender spoon so they work! got bit off and didn't replace it.
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How do you guys work/jig those little spoons? I remember a couple years ago I tried and lost a small slender spoon so they work! got bit off and didn't replace it.
It's mostly about a lift and let the spoons flutter down. The when fish is staring at it, usually gentle rod tip shaking will seal the deal.
When fish are aggressive, there's sometimes no required method. More like trying to keep small ones away is the problem.
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Spoons are not my go to for gills but with that said I will be trying out the new Clam Pro Tackle Panfish Leech Flutter Spoon and the Pinhead minnow spoon and Guppy flutter Spoon just to try them.
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I started swapping out the small treble hook on the 1/16oz slender spoons for a small (#10 or 12) shrimpo with the plastic tail. I think it gives it more action when your not actively jigging the spoon plus its easier to get 1 hook out versus a treble hook
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Shucks jigger with a dropper. Hard to beat.
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Notice alot say the dropper chain on anything helps, they must like the noise it creates, like that I read some guys said the demon spoons work just picked one up the other night to give it a try !
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the smallest Pinhead Mino by Clam looks like an absolutely stellar bluegill spoon. i'm excited to give it a shot!
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small castmaster or slender but never try to catch them on spoons always crappie or perch I've also got them on the smallest jigging raps targeting crappie and perch
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I fish for gills with rattle buckshots all the time. Also use Hali jigs, forage spoons and demons. My favorite is the buckshot though, but I always replace the treble with a dropper chain with a single hook or size 18 treble. They are so heavy on the rod it makes it incredibly easy to see the bite.
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Small silver Hali and a couple spikes on the dropper hook...
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Hali is a definite go to. I use the littler ones with a mini bobber on the hook. usually plucks gills right out.
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1/16th silver or gold hammered slender spoon with the treble switched out to a single hook dropper. I tie the dropper with 2lb Flouroclear and don't use a chain.
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got to use the Clam pinhead minnow this year and man, in the smallest size that spoon is a gill killer. it's been a long time since i've had such aggressive strikes through the ice.
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I like the Northland forage spoons, and like others have mentioned, I like a slender spoon or something of the like that will search out to the side of the hole, but with a dropper line and a #14 ice fly on the business end.
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My favorite spoon for bluegill is a 1/16th ounce slender spoon.
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prefer a dropper single hook so your not digging out three hooks to get back to fishing.
spikes are all i carry for live bait.
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When I was younger I watched an old timer hammer the gills on the smallest Swedish pimple. Ever since then I’ve used them with good success. A lot of times I’ll start with one and never switch if the bite is good. Occasionally when you get a lot of lookers I’ll downsize to a 3mm tungsten. I put a waxie on everything or half of a ratso tail. The aggressive gills will hammer the spoons
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You can always make your own. The added benefits is that crappies love them, we catch perch on them. The down side is losing them to big large mouth bass.
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I like the Northland forage spoons, and like others have mentioned, I like a slender spoon or something of the like that will search out to the side of the hole, but with a dropper line and a #14 ice fly on the business end.
Interesting idea. I'm going to tie a few of those up. For those who do it, does the single hook/floro dropper get hooked around the main line often? I'm sure I would notice on the Vex, but I could see it happening, especially with a Slender Spoon.
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Your instinct is correct, the fly will once in awhile get fouled up with a slender spoon. As you said, you'd be able to tell with the flasher. Keeping the dropper line on the shorter side helps. I use 4 lb line for the dropper line...using 2-3 lb will increase the chance of the foul-ups.