Sunfish Lures - The Most Deadly Sunfish Lure Ever Created
Many people head out to their local bait shop to pick up live bait to go fishing for sunfish. However, with the amazing plastics that we have available in today’s world of fishing, I think plastic is better than live bait for sunfish.
Why? Well, in my opinion, buying worms, grubs, or maggots is not really what I look forward to when I think about going to have fun with some sunfish. They are messy, and the Styrofoam containers that the bait comes in litter every shoreline I have ever fished in my life. When you have a pack of plastics, you really don’t have a problem with sealing them up and throwing them in your pocket.
The plastic of today is extremely life like. One of the best plastics I have ever used for sunfish is the power maggot made by Berkley. They look exactly like larvae that sunfish love to eat. The bait comes in different colors, which is great, because you can really target what the sunfish happen to be eating at any particular time. For instance, a green power maggot will be deadly when inch worms are coming out of the trees next to shore. Sunfish won’t be able to stay away from them. You’ll catch a hundred if you hit the water on the right day. The power maggot also comes in red; this color seems to drive sunfish absolutely crazy.
Berkley also makes some very small 1″ inch power grubs, which are often times a bit easier to find than the maggot. These 1″ grubs may be a bit big if you are after small fish, especially if your are fishing with your kids next to shore. So, what you can do to make them smaller, and increase your hookups, is to rip off the tail, and all of the sudden they become a power maggot.
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