I've never done any good with bluegills. I was on a massive school of stripers with lines shooting up and crossing everywhere while on a blackout school of shad and couldn't get the first nibbler on the sunfish. My poor sunfish(could have been bluegills, I don't know) would start going crazy as a striper would come up and sniff it, but not one of them got killed by a striper. We started dropping spoons and started catching stripers. Burning a Flitterbait up off the bottom will fire them up too.