01-07-2008, 12:54 PM
Yes Sir, i'm from SC. What gave it away? LOL [
] The caterpillars i'm refering to look like this guy:
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Harmless little bugger, but deadly on big panfish.
Crickets are an excellent bait, and I would never knock anyone using them. But, if you count bites versus actual hook ups, I think the smaller wax worms take the prize. I know crickets seem to work exculsively well for War mouths, or Morgans as we call them along the Pee Dee. I've caught smaller morgans with wax worms, but all my larger fish were caught off crickets. But, on the same not, i'm not targeting panfish to eat, unless I am targeting crappie. I use the smaller hand sized ones for live bait. There isn't a much better live bait for a big flat head than a hand sized fly bream or a pumpkin seed. A lot of anglers i know that fish Santee Cooper swear by big crappie for monster cats, but I can't bring myself to use a big crappie for bait. Too good to eat. LOL
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] The caterpillars i'm refering to look like this guy: [url "http://bugguide.net/node/view/156989/bgimage"]
[/url] Harmless little bugger, but deadly on big panfish.
Crickets are an excellent bait, and I would never knock anyone using them. But, if you count bites versus actual hook ups, I think the smaller wax worms take the prize. I know crickets seem to work exculsively well for War mouths, or Morgans as we call them along the Pee Dee. I've caught smaller morgans with wax worms, but all my larger fish were caught off crickets. But, on the same not, i'm not targeting panfish to eat, unless I am targeting crappie. I use the smaller hand sized ones for live bait. There isn't a much better live bait for a big flat head than a hand sized fly bream or a pumpkin seed. A lot of anglers i know that fish Santee Cooper swear by big crappie for monster cats, but I can't bring myself to use a big crappie for bait. Too good to eat. LOL
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