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    Jumbo gill

    It's been since my early teen years since I caught a dinner plate size bluegill . This one hit a crawler on a floating jighead I had rigged for channel cats in deeper water this morning .
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    That's cool.
    If those things got up around 25-30 pounds, it wouldn't be safe to go in the water.
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    Wonderful! I love bluegills.

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    Fine catch! I love fishing for them, especially in deep water, they fight all out of proportion to their size!!! Yummy too
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    Winger Ed I've been saying that exact same thing for some 50 years now.

    Last summers highlight for me was a 9 incher. That one tops that easily.
    Very well done!

    And very little better tasting than a nice gill rolled in cornmeal and fried up crispy with country style fried potatoes and onions on the side.

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    Great with cornmeal and for me, fried in bacon fat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rking22 View Post
    Fine catch! I love fishing for them, especially in deep water, they fight all out of proportion to their size!!! Yummy too
    True, if bluegill were 10 pounds we would need a bigger boat.

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    Best fight per pound that you can get on the line!
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    We used light fly rods on the farm ponds here for them. a mess filleted and pan fried makes a real treat.A little white chenille fly ( wooly worm). with just a few hackles to slow decent drives them and crappies crazy. Cast it out close to cover and let it slowly sink when they hot it its gone. My best rig was a 7' light rod 6-7 weight floating line with a 5' leader from 4 lb mono filament. tied on a very fine hook. I started at the eye with black or red thread, wrapped shank and then the chenille to just short of eye then formed a small head and tied off and glued.

    Whats that beaut weigh? Im envisioning 2 fillets between 2 slices of good bread here.

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    Didn't weigh it but more than a pound . When I was young I would go to a farm pond over the hill from my parents place and most of the gills were that size ! Great fun . The lake I was at yesterday has never produced big gills like that . Yep I filleted it and the two cats and is today's dinner .
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    Hence the name "Panfish"!

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    A lot put the blue gills in ponds as a feeder fish for the others ( Bass crappies ect). It dosnt take long for "real" blue gills to over populate a pond and become stunted. reaching a certain size and no bigger. There is now a hybrid Blue gill that dosnt reproduce nearly as fast and they do much better producing sizable fish. Ive seen hybrids at almost 2 lbs.
    Whats unique with bluegills is at a certain point they start getting thicker rather than longer.

    A mess of those rolled in cornmeal with a little salt and pepper pan fried or deep fried is a fine meal. Some deep fried potato chips . Dosnt get much better

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    Can’t stand it no more, loading the poke boat in the truck and going fishing! Now.
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    That is a beast. I'm always amazed when I catch a Bluegill that isn't much bigger than the crankbait I'm fishing.

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    My friend hooked a big one once and we thought it was a carp until we got it in the boat.

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    4 of us were on a rented pontoon boat fishing one day. We drifted across a spot and we all had bites. 3 Crappies landed, one kid lost his jerking too hard.

    Smallest was 1.75 lbs and the biggest was almost 4 lbs. That crappie was FAT!

    Mighty fine eating out of cold water.
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