BLUEGILLS

[hischj]

Caught these a couples weeks ago. I use crickets for bluegill and the occasional bass will hit them. 42 bluegill and 2 bass. the larger bass was about 3.5 lbs. Pretty hard fight with an ultra light rig.

 

[HiRoller]

That's sum good eatin' rite there !!! I prefer gill's over just about any freshwater fish. I recall my first beer with my dad at age 10 ! on the bank frying up a mess of bluegill. He handed me a cold Falls City and said " fish always tastes best with a cold beer !! " If my mom knew that, we could have both been pan fried !!!

 

[kyle2452]

Seems like a good year for big fat blue gill this year even after a fish kill at our lake.

 

[deer hunter]

My wife and I went out to a private pond the other night and caught several really nice Blue Gills. She used bee moths and I used beetle spin with a small white rubber grub that looked like a bee moth. As soon as the bait hit the water the blue gills would grab it. If I don't use artificial bait, I always use bee moths. You can normally catch several on the same bee moth. They are hard to get off the hook.

 

[clfergus]

I took my 4.5 year old son out to the retention pond tonight with his spiderman light up pole. His first time with a real hook. He did great. He caught six on his own, some the size of my hand. He didn't quite grasp setting the hook when i said jerk up he reeled in but they were hitting so hard he hooked some.

I was fishing with a float lure and a yellow spinner bait trying to get a few small mouths I had seen hanging around the bluegill nest. A few times I got a strike and it was a massive bluegill. I bet we could have caught 30+ tonight as much as they were biting.

I haven't caught a large gill for years. Forgot how sharp they can be..ouched me once.

So proud of my boy.

 

[GunSlinger]

What fish, I saw no fish but a pair of.....er........you know.

Groupers?