Mousees vs. Waxies vs. Euro Larvea

[fishtank]

Anybody have any preference? I was out the other day and picked up some mousees to give them a try. It was the first time I had seen them in this particular bait shop. Didn't have a hole lot of luck and didn't compare them to waxies or larvea, but had more success on crappie minnows. I liked the look of the mousees, especially when jigging for crappies. I thought the tail would/could trigger more strikes.

[freefisherman22]

larva tend to stay on better and catch more crappies if your after sunnies waxies is defently the way to go don't know about the other one.

[slipperybob]

What are mousees? Are they the leaf worms?

[metrojoe]

I prefer spikes over anything else.

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What are mousees? Are they the leaf worms?

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Basically the same thing as a spike, but they have a small tail.

[hill7410]

i use euro larvea for sunfish especially, it can handle be sucked in more than once compared to a wax worm where you are constiantly changing your bait, i have never heard of mousees, what are those?

[CrappieNut]

If your out to catch some fish i have the best luck with waxies for sunies and crappies, ive even had the occaisonal small wally. you'll find that you can target different species like for instance, i'll be fishing next to my girlfriend using a waxie and catching small sun and dump one after another, but she can catch larger crappies not as often with larva (or she's better than me ) well she has fun and thats all that matters

good luck out there

[CrappieAttitude]

I fish pretty much panfish exclusively. I only use plastics or jigs tipped with Eurolarvae. I haven't bought a can of waxies for about 10 years and have never tried the mousies. I do know that the amount of times I have purchased crappie minnows in the past 5 years I can count on one hand. However, Trips to URL require me to buy minnows!

Here's a little secret to all you eurolarvae users out there. In order to keep your bait alive longer, the best temperature to keep them at is in a fridge set to 33-34 degrees.

CA

[metrojoe]

Mousees

Wax Worms

Spikes

Euro Larva(same as Spike just colored)

Meal Worm

[Sonicrunch]

So......

Spikes are maggots, right?

[McGurk]

Tried the mousies, don't bother. Gave up on Waxies when I started using spikes (eurolarva). I won't go back; they last longer both on the hook and in the fridge, and am concentrating more on plastics now.

[fishinrush]

Euros are just colored spikes? Interesting....I've always called them all Euros. In that case I guess I prefer the spikes. For whatever reason I seem to have better luck on the all white vs. the colored. Never really tried Mousees and once I discovered Euros (Spikes) I pretty much quit using the Waxies.

[CrappieAttitude]

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Euros are just colored spikes? Interesting....I've always called them all Euros. In that case I guess I prefer the spikes. For whatever reason I seem to have better luck on the all white vs. the colored. Never really tried Mousees and once I discovered Euros (Spikes) I pretty much quit using the Waxies.

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Ditto!

CA

[chris63]

Names of various kinds of larvae:

Animal Name of larva

Hydrozoa planula

Freshwater mussels glochidium

Many crustaceans nauplius

Decapoda zoea

Butterflies and moths caterpillar

Beetles grub

Scarab Beetles triangulin

Flies maggot

Mosquitos wiggler

Bees schadon

Fish (generally) larva

Lamprey ammocoete

Eels leptocephalus

Amphibians tadpole, polliwog

Certain Mollusca, annelids trochophore

Dragonflies and Grasshoppers nymph

[Deitz Dittrich]

For me, I pretty much use Spikes and Eurolarve- Its been a while since I have bought mousies.. but have used them. I have also used Meal worms and Golden rod Grubs.. all work..

But for me, Spikes/Euro seem to last longer and I get more fish per bait, and less time baiting. So I use them the most. If fishing crappies, I may put a few more on the hook... For me most often, I use 3 Euro per hook. For both Sunfish and Crappies.

[jigginjim]

I'll bring minnows(for deadsticking), waxies and euros for jigging for sunnies and crappies. use both waxie and a euro on the same hook.

[Fred_Bear]

i use mostly waxies but occasionally with go with Euros.

question though, how do you hook your Euros. Through the end? Through the middle? Or thread them?

I usually thread them when targetting sunnies and for crappies I'll hook them the scent sack.

[eurolarva]

It is real tough to thread a Euro without getting it to pop like a pimple. There is a flat side and a pointed side. About 1/8 inch under the top of the flat side you hook it. If you do it correctly the pointed side will still wiggle back and forth. I to like to use three on a hook. Usually one red one green and the other white.

[dkf]

I hooked spikes in the butt. Lightly hook them in the blunt end with the two black dots that look like eyes.

I've been buying natural spikes instead of colored spikes because the colored spikes don't seem to live as long for me and die before the uncolored one.

[Bothun]

I also target mainly panfish. Last year I had switched to Berkley Gulp artificials and couldn't be any happier. I haven't noticed any difference with the fish reactions since switching to artificials. Only downside is that they are kinda spendy.

[Fred_Bear]

Bothun, which type and what color of gulp plastics have you been most succesful with?

I personally like the white "waxies" but i haven't experimented with too many others

[Bothun]

White and red waxies on a jigging spoon or buckshot. Also white and pink spikes on various smaller glow jigs and spoons.

[fishtank]

I brought in my bait puck from the outside because I had noticed the waxies were frozen solid.

I threw out the waxies and noticed that the mousees were still alive! From the fridge to frozen to room temp, I can't believe they are still moving around. The mousees I bought before Christmas!

[Schloogs]

I prefer the spikes, they can usually go through 2-5 fish before losing them. I usually use 2 per hook and go through the 2 black eyes.

[sjburnt]

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[Burnham]

A worker at sportsmans told me that gulp came out with artificial waxies this year, i tried them and i think that they work just as good as real ones..and you can keep the same one on for multiple fish