.This is the biggest blue gill I have ever seen. We managed to get another one just like it when I took the G-kids fishing on a managed pond in an undisclosed location. WE were fishing for bass which were biting on big purple worms with white spots and /or purple worms with a flourescent green tails. I think the fish are so offended by these garish un-natural abominations that they attack them out of sheer anger. So these two gills were equally offended and attacked. We had to put them back, management regulations, but it was fun to watch them fight the big gills. Later I hooked something that just stopped letting itself be reeled. Just dead stopped coming in and was gone. The worm had a hook on it that was bent almost straight when i got it retrieved, but the line didn't break. Here are the bass that we kept.