Anyone use Japanese beetles or green June beetles as bait?

[KYCatfish]

I've caught many bluegill off them and a few cats while fishing for bluegills...pretty fun to catch an 8lb blue on a 4 ft kiddie pole.

[Tim_T]

A few years back a friend gave me some flies tied to imitate Japanese Beetles and they worked great. We caught trout on the Cumberland and then I caught a lot of red ear out of a private pond.

[98zr2]

I used to use them all the time when I was a kid always had luck with them