100 Fish and Counting: How One Lanier Lure Took Over a Rhode Island Lake

Some lures get used a few times and end up in the bottom of a tackle box. Others become the bait you reach for every single time you hit the water. For Dave, fishing up in Rhode Island, one custom Lanier Lures bluegill-pattern bait has become the latter — and it's not even close.

Dave recently reached out to share something that stopped us in our tracks: he's landed over 100 fish on a single Lanier Lure. One bait. One hundred fish. That's not luck — that's a lure that flat-out works. 

Different Water. Same Result.

Here's what makes Dave's story particularly compelling: Rhode Island isn't Georgia. The water is different, the pressure is different, the fish have seen different baits. But a hand-painted bluegill pattern from a small shop in the South showed up and produced like it was built for those waters specifically.

That's the thing about a realistic, custom-painted lure — bass are bass. Whether they're in a Georgia reservoir or a Rhode Island pond, they eat bluegill. They always have. A bait that looks exactly like the real thing works everywhere fish live.

Why the Bluegill Pattern Works

Bluegill are one of the most abundant and reliable forage species in North American freshwater. Bass grow up eating them. They know exactly what a bluegill looks like, how it moves, and how it behaves when it's scared. A lure that nails that profile — the coloration, the size, the subtle detail — doesn't look like a lure to a bass. It looks like dinner.

The Stalker Series – Ghost Bluegill is built around exactly that idea. Hand-painted with a translucent, layered finish that captures the natural iridescence of a real bluegill, it's the kind of bait that gets a second look — and then a strike. The Stalker Series – Ember Gill Micro brings that same realistic profile in a smaller package, perfect for finesse presentations and pressured fish that won't commit to a larger bait.

Hand-Painted. Field Tested. Proven.

Every Lanier Lure starts on a workbench, not an assembly line. Each bait is hand-painted with attention to detail that mass production simply can't replicate — the layered colors, the subtle shading, the finish that makes a bass commit instead of turn away at the last second. Dave's 100-fish bait isn't a fluke. It's what happens when a lure is built right from the start.

From the workbench to the water, every bait is built with one goal: get bit when it matters most.

Built in the South. Proven Everywhere.

Lanier Lures is a woman and veteran owned business built in Georgia, but the fish don't care where a lure comes from — they care whether it looks real. Dave's 100+ catches in Rhode Island are proof that a well-built, hand-painted lure travels well.

If you've been throwing the same mass-produced baits and wondering why the bite has slowed down, this is your sign to try something different. Shop the full Lanier Lures lineup and find the bait that's going to become your next 100-fish lure.

Have a catch story of your own? Tag us on social media — we want to see what you're pulling out of the water with Lanier Lures.