Your best bluegill imitation lures 2025
Gillroid 9000 reply :
The places where i fished alot, bluegill was there main forage and i even saw a bass that choked on a bluegill. So my lures were choice to imitate a bluegill was an Keitech swing impact bluegill flash with an Kietech bluegill flash swim jig,An B and B or Grn pumpkin pit boss, or an green pumpkin jig with an Green pumpkin 4inch pit boss. What are your other lures you threw to imitate a bluegill/sunfish?
bigbassin' reply :
A swimjig is really the only lure I throw where in my head I'm clearly imitating a bluegill and not just presenting a generic forage fish profile. The skirt gives it more height than a plain swimbait or crankbait, similar to how bluegills have a rounder body shape than most fish.
bigbill reply :
Norman thin N in bluegill, redear,
deaknh03 reply :
Savage gear gill. $10. Get one buddy.
Fishinthefish reply :
BBZ Shad, Killer Gill.
WRB reply :
Black Dog wooden She'll Cracker, Matt lures hard gill and Huddgill.
Tom
DINK WHISPERER reply :
Sly guy lures Gill is high on my list.
Fish the Mitt reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 9:45 AM, DINK WHISPERER said:Sly guy lures Gill is high on my list.
Perdy! ????
Munkin reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 9:45 AM, DINK WHISPERER said:Sly guy lures Gill is high on my list.
That looks hard to beat!
I use a swim jig that I hand paint with a Keitech 3.8 fat impact in ProStaff special.
Allen
Angry John reply :
Matt lures hard gills are first choice and his soft gills are also amazing.
Brett's_daddy reply :
I just got a Jackall Gantarel Jr. in the RT Ghost Gill scheme and I swear that looks like it's a real fish...
You can get them for around $28 - $32 online.
scaleface reply :
Any crankbait / spinnerbait with a little chartreuse in it .
Catt reply :
Paul Roberts reply :
Hmmmmm.... All of 'em! LOL My bass here have a pretty narrow diet. It's almost all bluegills, with some baby bass (mostly eaten by juv's), some crayfish, and some dragonflies thrown in here and there.
So... if my bass are mistaking my lures for BG's, then... all of 'em?
I try to help them out some by using "BG colors", esp in clearer water. But bluegills don't always, even often, look like what most manufacturers call "BG" color. Probably bc most fisherman recognize bluegills in spawning coloration. But most of the year, BGs are not so vividly dressed, esp in clear water, and esp for younger BGs, which most bass eat. I talk about this a bit on one of my summer videos -the "Late Summer" one, with swim jigs in that case.
Crankbaits, esp: What invariably gets my heart going while perusing the racks at a tackle shop, or the catalogs, are potential BG colors. And I have "bluegillized" a lot of cranks. I use and show one in my "Early Fall" video.
A lot of this is in my head, I know. But hey!, it's my head that going fishing, isn't it? 
That said, I'm sure that accuracy in image/motion (what RichZ has called "Identity Profile" or IDP) could be important, if they could be accurate enough. And just painting some chunk of plastic or wood in spawning bluegill colors doesn't go too far.
What I have only just begun to do is play around with some of the high end swimbaits that do appear to offer a much more accurate look. It remains to be seen how well these hold up in the IDP department after the bass gain experience with them.
I've come to recognize that the what I call "economic negotiations" between predator and prey are most important. I've also found that some lures are simply more difficult for fish to learn are "not food" than others. Two that come to mind are the stick-worms, and a nifty little creation that's been around for some time but no one seems to know, is the Lil' Fishie now sold by Creme. Great little lure. Someone ought to run with that design; It needs some tweaking in the larger sizes.
Scarborough817 reply :
i have a couple gantarels, a couple mattlure gills, a lucky craft real bluegill 155
really having a hard time not picking up a mattlures hardgill though
npl_texas reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 9:45 AM, DINK WHISPERER said:Sly guy lures Gill is high on my list.
That looks really nice. How much do they run?
1201vilbig reply :
A lot of good choices have already been mentioned. In addition I really like the Smash-Tech line thru.
Dorado reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 11:36 PM, Paul Roberts said:I've also found that some lures are simply more difficult for fish to learn are "not food" than others. Two that come to mind are the stick-worms
Which is why my answer to the OP's question is a 4" Green Pumpkin w/ Black FLK (#297) Senko, wacky-rigged.
ratherbfishin1 reply :
On 2/1/2018 at 9:15 AM, deaknh03 said:Savage gear gill. $10. Get one buddy.
I second this. It's great that you don't have to break out a $50 like other one that are similar.
DINK WHISPERER reply :
On 2/2/2018 at 12:41 AM, npl_texas said:That looks really nice. How much do they run?
I paid $55 shipped for mine with spare tails. Great action and really durable finish.
fishwizzard reply :
For a less photorealisitc soft plastic option, a Rage Shellcracker rigged on a 6/0 Monear swimbait hook makes a very convincing tiny 'gill imitator.
npl_texas reply :
On 2/2/2018 at 1:10 AM, DINK WHISPERER said:I paid $55 shipped for mine with spare tails. Great action and really durable finish.
Can you point me in the direction for more details?
roadwarrior reply :
Siebert Outdoors Swim Jig/ Rage Tail Shellcracker trailer
DINK WHISPERER reply :
On 2/2/2018 at 4:16 AM, npl_texas said:Can you point me in the direction for more details?
I believe as of now he only sales them on the Gram and FB. Clayton sly lures or Sly guy lures. He makes small custom ordered batches. Has shad style as well. Customer service is excellent as well.
BassNJake reply :
Topwater guy most of the time and i like the Kelly J prop bait
But man after seeing the realism of some of the baits pictured above, The bait monkey is calling!!
MassYak85 reply :
Mattlures soft gills, but for a weedless presentation I am a huge swimjig guy.
npl_texas reply :
On 2/2/2018 at 5:09 AM, DINK WHISPERER said:I believe as of now he only sales them on the Gram and FB. Clayton sly lures or Sly guy lures. He makes small custom ordered batches. Has shad style as well. Customer service is excellent as well.
I sent him a message. Thank you.
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