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Why Everything You Know About Bluegill Management is Wrong---INTERESTING ARTICLE BRINGS UP MANY GOOD POINTS

Why Everything You Know About Bluegill Management is Wrong BY MATT MILLER OCTOBER 15, 2015   Follow Matt Bluegills are prone to overpopulat…

Started by Slip Sinker in Bluegill SpawningLatest Reply

Sexing redear sunfish.

Here at BBG, I like to believe we are always ready to learn something new and broaden our knowledge base. Sure, we have lots of photos, but…

Started by Tony Livingston in Basic DiscussionLatest Reply

65 years is a long time for this record not to have been broken... what gives? especially with all this bio engineering and genetics in play...why is this a northern strain instead of the Coppernose?

Started by Slip Sinker in Basic DiscussionLatest Reply

Cleaning jighead eyes

My least favorite thing to do is cleaning the paint out of the hook eyes on small jigs. I've used different ways but none seem very easy or…

Started by Mark Kotolski in Basic Discussion

BUK PERRY FANS?

Do we have any Buck Perry fans among the group?

Started by David, aka, "McScruff" in Basic Discussion

Setting up a 75 gallon native species tank for a Nature Center

Hi, I'm helping set up a 75 gallon tank for mainly sunfish and hopefully some other species native to Minnesota, perhaps a crayfish as well…

Started by Julie Schroeder in Basic Discussion

What state would you choose to fish Bluegill if you could only pick one?

We are fortunate to have members from all over this great nation...One of my favorite things about Bigbluegill.com is the instant connecti…

Started by Jeffrey D. Abney in Basic Discussion

Lure variety has always been the name of the game when it comes to any fish species

Fall water temperature drops into the 50's is a wakeup call as to where to find fish and what to use. Strange though that the perch bite is…

Started by Frank M in Basic Discussion

Full moon and the spawn?

Can someone explaine to me how the full moon correlates with the bluegill spawn. And when exactly to fish around it?

Started by Smoltz in Bluegill Spawning

Pond Update

Back in 2013 I had a pond cleaned out to dry dirt and made bigger. Some of you might remember that I ordered Coppernose bluegill but receiv…

Started by Long Creek Arkie in Basic Discussion

Bluegill aquarium - anyone?

So, has anyone tried to set up an aquarium just for Bluegills? Is it legal? Any suggestions?

Started by Clay Thompson in Basic Discussion

Spawn/weather fronts

So, I'm in central Virginia and I know in small ponds the bream are probably spawning already, on larger impoundments maybe in prespawn mod…

Started by sean kerley in Basic Discussion