The guy at a local fish store told me crickets are not good to feed my Bluegills because they have sharp, pointy legs and things and the fish cannot "chew" their food.
Any truth to this?
Feeding crickets to Bluegill
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 12:02 PM
The guy at a local fish store told me crickets are not good to feed my Bluegills because they have sharp, pointy legs and things and the fish cannot "chew" their food.
Any truth to this?
If the fish can take down harder shelled crayfish in the wild why not crickets? I'm sure they fall in the ponds and pools of bluegill all the time...
Up here there is a major Asian Ladybug problem (they'll get in your house, and you'll never rid it off them), and they end up as Sunfish food all the time!
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 01:18 PM
Sunfish eat plenty of terrestrial bugs, crickets are not a problem for them. I feed them to many of my sunfish as a treat from time to time.
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 02:34 PM
My Kids and I go on grasshopper collecting trips just to go to the lake and feed the Bluegill and Greens under the bridge.....they gobble em up as soon as they hit the water!
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 02:47 PM
Yeah, sunfish can "chew" with their pharyngeal jaws which are surprisingly strong. It's more like "crushing" than "chewing".
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 04:07 PM
I crush ramshorn snails and feed them to my longear sunfish. It sucks in the whole snail, chews on it a while, then spits out all the shell bits at one time. Then it begs for another one!
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 06:21 PM
I also feed snails, but I've never found it necessary to crush them.
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Posted 28 March 2010 - 10:18 PM
I also feed snails, but I've never found it necessary to crush them.
These are the big ones that the fish won't tackle on its own. It's pretty good at keeping the small ones cleaned up.
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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:05 PM
Yeah, sunfish can "chew" with their pharyngeal jaws which are surprisingly strong. It's more like "crushing" than "chewing".
And, people give us southerners a hard time... why do you think we call 'em "shellcrackers" (redears)? Maybe we should have called 'em shell crushers?!?
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Posted 29 March 2010 - 06:08 PM
I usually say "stumpknocker", but what they hell...
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Posted 30 March 2010 - 10:01 AM
Thanks to everyone for the replies.
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Posted 30 March 2010 - 11:13 PM
"stumpknockers" we reserve for spottedsI usually say "stumpknocker", but what they hell...
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Posted 31 March 2010 - 06:37 AM
That's the fun of common names!"stumpknockers" we reserve for spotteds
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Posted 31 March 2010 - 07:59 AM
I always thought a stump knocker was a warmouth because they love to hide under stumps or other structure and really "Knock" your bait hard if you get it near them. I have always heard of redears as shellcrackers and bluegill as bream.
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