Best Bluegill Bait

[Music] what's cracking youtube today i'm going to share with you guys a secret bait that i have been using for years to catch a bluegill panfish small bass pretty much any kind of smaller fish but first i'm going to give you a little back story of how i found this bait i'm not the inventor so i think it's actually a bait you can buy from the store you have to make it yourself but it's pretty simple to make i'm going to give you the back story then i'm going to show you how to make it and then i'm going to show you guys how to use it okay first off the back story how i found this bait so i must have been like 10 or 11 years old you know back in the day before we had all the social media and everything they used to send magazines like bassmasters in the mail well my dad would get one in the mail every month and i would always read through the articles and everything and one of the articles i read said to take a small piece of a worm cut it up in little chunks put it on a hook and put a little split shot in front of it and fish it in the bottom these guys were up in uh north like tennessee or somewhere so they're fishing rocky bottom you know a lot of deep lakes and so i took that and i kind of manipulated that theory a little bit and i cut off a piece of a sink hotel just kind of messing around put a little hook on it with no weight started chunking that thing around started catching fish oh yeah guys i want to jump in right here and say here's the shout out winner drop your shout out names below and we'll do another shout out soon until this day i haven't found anything that works better as far as artificial bait goes than this bait right here a beetle spin sometimes can come close but i guarantee i can put two people one with a beetle spin one one of these baits and the person this bait wins every single time so you definitely gotta try this bait out if you love pan fishing bluegill fishing or just catching small bass so now that my bait's messed up and i got to make a new one now it's a perfect time to show you guys exactly how i'm making this little bait so i take the piece of the sink hotel or in this case the kvd stick bait that was a big bass and then my camera will hold still i cut it right down the middle so what that does it gives it that flat side right there and it's going to sink that flat side is going to catch and it's going to sink like that and normally with the two pieces i take and pick the heavier one to go on if i'm trying to catch smaller brim i'll cut this down and use a short one basically the bigger piece i normally use the bigger the bait i catch so you just kind of portion it out to whatever size kind of bait you're trying to catch so then once i feed the hook through it like that i bring it out and there you have it good to go now i try to get the hook through there as straight as possible as you can see it wasn't that straight got him get him this this one might be big boys what is this it's a bass that's not what i was going for it's a little bass guys we call this a tiny little bass this is not what i'm going for he is so skinny no wonder he was hungry oh i got my camera wet great all right we're gonna go ahead and let it go oh yeah this is a size 10 hook this hook is very very small and i have a piece of a cinco tail really this isn't a senko it's just a stick bait i think uh there's the kvd version what i've done is i've chopped off the tail and then i chopped it in half and what i usually do is chop it off enough to where it will cover my entire hook so you see where it comes right to the eyelet right there and then i like to take the hook and bring it out on the tail so what i do with this i throw it out at the bank and it falls like this with no weight so whenever it's falling those little fish will come up and they'll grab it most of the time by the tail that's why i like to put the hook in and bring it out right by the tail because if you put the hook in too far up you'll miss a bunch of them and i've got four pound line on here really small wine this is like a shimano 1000 i think this is a seven foot rod and instead of using my ultralight rod i put a little bit longer rod on here so that way i can throw it further i don't have to get as close to the bank and i can make those longer cast without getting up there spooked the fish [Music] you guys see where i threw it i threw it right up there next to the bank in that shade because those little fish like to hide out on the roots of the trees and what i'm doing i'm just watching my line while it's sinking and whenever the fish grabs it i'll see my line tick then i'll sit hook got to make sure you got your drag set right especially four pound line because if you don't you can uh you can one if it's a really small fish pull the hook out of their mouth or two if you hook a big fish by accident like i did the other day you can miss him what the heck is that a fish if it is he's big oh my god what in the world dude oh my god oh he broke me oh yeah dude whatever it was was huge dude it was like 10 pounds but i was thinking a mudfish or a guard it could have been a bass i've got four pound line on here guys that fish was huge this is crazy so what i usually do i watch my line until it looks like it's hit the bottom and then once it hits the bottom i kind of pop it a few times and that thing will dart up almost like a fluke does and then it'll flutter back down and normally after i do that two or three times and i'll work it out that shade line on the bank and i don't get bit i move on to the next spot i'll make the next cast also guys i'm spraying my lure down with some fish attracting this is crawfish normally i use garlic but it really doesn't matter i just want to spray my bait down with something to get that sunscreen or mosquito spray smell off or just something to cover up my human scent because if you're going fishing with this hot normally i put on oh there he is normally i put on sunscreen yay i got some bait all right so you guys see in the video that i'm using the bait weightless no weight thrown next to the bank catching fish what you can do this pond you can do it in the river you can do it anywhere you think is bluegill or any kind of panfish so i want to point something out though if you're fishing one of these lakes with deeper water let's say you are up north um or you're fishing some area that's got some cover on the bottom and you want to get this bait near the cover that's where the bluegill and the panfish are at what i would do is i would take this bait put a little split shot above it almost like a carolina rig and use something with heavier test pound lines but still use that small hook like a size four or size six depending on you know what size of pan fish i'm targeting if i'm targeting big bluegill i'm going to use a bigger hook but the reason i said use thicker line is that way whenever you do get that bait hung up you can pull it and you can bend that hook out if you're fishing in deep water you're not going to be able to stick your pole down there and get that bait unhung so with the thicker line on there yeah depending on water clarity you may get less bites but you're gonna get that bait back if you get it hung up if you guys like this video please hit that thumbs up if you watch it this far please leave a comment good or bad and let me know if you want to see more tips and videos like this if not say that too please don't forget to subscribe and check out some other videos thank you guys for watching we'll see you again next time [Music] you