Hello all, I need some feedback. I was out at Lake Fairfield this weekend in search of some of those big gills and I got some pretty interesting advice thrown my way and I just wanted you all to tell me whatcha think. I was using those big black crickets that I actually caught. Some of the locals saw my crickets and immediately told me that the fish would not bite them for the blue gills in that lake preferred the grey crickets. I had another local tell me that they would mostly bite only the white crickets and then of course another person told me that I should use brown crickets. In each case, they were certain that those fish would not bite my black crickets. I will say that I did catch quite a few big blue gills on those black crickets early in the morning but then they just stopped. I started using night crawlers coupled with the crickets and I saw that the fish were taking the worm off only and would leave the cricket in perfect form(untouched). I couldn't make sense of this. I was left feeling that maybe there was something to what the locals were saying. Maybe those fish are specific to the color cricket that you use. I was hoping that you all could shine some light on the matter because I am looking to go back this weekend and if I need to change the cricket color then that is what I will do....Any feedback if much appreciated!

might want to post this in the Bluegill/Sunfish category, probably will be more postings on this

They may have been pulling your leg.

Don't know about Fairfield, but the big bluegills at Fork absolutely love the white crickets, and will take them over worms.

Yep, you got lost here in the crappie pages.
Years back when I used to visit my uncles in Ole Miss they used light grey crickets only. There was a big cricket bussiness over there, and may still be. The bluegills are much larger over there, up to 3#ers. He told me he caught a 5# bluegill once but he caught it on a 2# cricket.

Something about the black crickets, I have heard that
they are not very good bait since I came to east texas in
82. I do know that when I worked in Terrell , we had a
cricket invasion, thousands of them in the parking lot
and the grackels would not even eat them.

MO