Best way to catch bluegill

[CoBass]

My go to for gills is an UL setup, 2-6 lb mono or floro, and a trout magnet a couple of feet below a bobber. Toss it out, give it a few twitches and watch the bobber disappear. 

[00 mod]

Live crickets....... nothing else comes close!

Jeff

[Wind Knot]

Last year when the cicadas were hatching the bluegills and bass would annihilate them when they fell into the water.  My friend and I saw this and started pulling cicadas right off the trees for bait.  We rigged two size-12 hooks about 2 inches apart on the end of our line.  One hook went through the soft tail end of the bug, and the other hook went through the hard part where the legs are attached.  When we cast them into the water they would dance around on the surface until a fish hit it. We caught a bunch of fish that way.

[Outdoor Zack]

1.  5 wt. fly rod, 5 wt. line, 36'' of straight 6# - 8# mono leader.  "bream killer" fly or similar pattern.  Best thing I've found so far, even better than live bait in some ponds with a lot of pressure.  I've had 50 - 75 fish in less than 2 hours (all catch and release- gotta stay legal)

 

2.  5' 6''  UL, 15 lb braid (optional, but casts real well and is tough), 6# leader.  Small spinners, topwaters, and even crankbaits are my top choices for this setup.  Otherwise its small plastics on 1/16 oz jig heads worked slow on the bottom or on rocks

[Bankbeater]

Red wigglers or the smallest white rooster tail I have.