[METALHEAD1]

If your fishing a lake, pond, or river/stream your best bet is to check the bank for small grubs, worms, ants, etc that are familiar to the fish. Still nightcrawlers, maggots and mealworms will work for just about anything.

 

[miss becky]

puski!!....oh you mean fishin'?

 

[GrizzlyMI]

When ice fishing for perch in Lake St. Clair there are a few combinations that work well for me depending on water clarity and depth. Wigglers, spikes or waxworms when fish are active. When the bite is slow and the fish are finicky a good old medium sized shinner does the trick. I also chum up a few shinners when the bite is slow.

As far as live bait bass fishing nothing beats a Texas rig, 3 split shot about 6" from the hook and nice fat crawler. Cast, retrieve, cast, retrieve etc.

 

[SolvingAtom482]

I mainly stick to worms, maggots and lures but on occasion I use leeches and corn kernels.

 

[BackwoodsNY]

I use jig heads with 3" rubber grubs they seem pretty good with a varriety of fish. I also use crank baits and spinner baits and at night on lakes that are calm a jitter bug or hula popper. This year I gonna try some texas rigged worms Ive heard they work well.

 

[Arsenul]

I use tuna and some fish. Some minnows mostly.

 

[JayBee]

Last year, I began fishing for the first time in my life. Only got out a handful of times. My first and only catch was a channel cat about the length of my forearm in a river. I used strawberry dough balls on a treble hook.

 

[flemdawg]

I love shiners dipped in iodine and as far as artificial put on a senko you'll get something

 

[wolt45]

The only fishing I do is for catfish.For flatheads I use live pond perch.I use Zote soap earthworms and Catalpa worms for Channels and Blues.

 

[wolt45]

We use a slat trap baited with stink cheese. 40 to 50 pounds of cats a day!!

A friend let me borrow what he called a "Cajun Box". It worked pretty well in backwater and sloughs.Unfortununtly nets and traps are outlawed here in Texas.

 

[z1200]

I love leaches, I would swear by them especially when fishing a pond.

 

[nichalos82]

If I'm live bait fishing, I like to catch baitfish like shiners and such that is in the vicinity of my fishing hole using a cast net (catches catfish, various breeds of bass, drum, etc...)

I also like you use pumpkin seed lizards soft plastics (caught largemouth and spotted bass)

I have had lots of luck on Red Shad Ribbontail Worms (usually catching smallmouth)

 

[Pector55]

Man, it all depends on what I am fishing for, what time of the year it is, what time of the day, weather conditions, etc.

Seeing as it's 3/7, I'll say crappie, pike and pickeral should be good to go.

Crappie - live fatheads
pike and pickerel - about anything that moves too close to them. The more noise and silver flashes the better. I want a lure that is going to cruise by looking and sounding like it owns the place so the pike or pickerel come kick it's butt.

 

[old corvus 41]

liberals that snoop around in southeastern Ky. Umm...I mean earthworms, crickets, chicken liver, sometimes plastic worms.

 

[onealx4]

One word.

Shad.