Bluegill - Big Bluegill
North American spoon chuckers
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Using a small spoon for Blue Gills
I had a chance to get out to ice fish yesterday and I was catching small Blue Gills until I switched to a Prism Chartreuse Swedish Pimple. While the largest was only 9 inches and others on the spoon were all over 8 inches it was a vast improvement from the 7 1/2 inch and under earlier. I missed…
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Bluegill Spoon Connection
Spoon Types Today’s spoon manufacturers offer an array of spoons that are suitable for panfish, and are also available in a variety of patterns and sizes to accommodate water depth ranges…
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Back to the abyss 7-12-13
Rod Lee and I ventured into the gin clear waters of Lake Geneva's abyss last weekend....in search of post-spawn bulls.We found them using 1/5 oz modified spoon rigs in 20 ft of water........we played nice, and released everything. The migration to the deep basin is not fully complete...surface…
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spoon chucking envy
have been reading and reading the info on here after picking up my old issue of IF panfish and reading about using them. Went and got some spoons and doctor'd them up a little with what I had instead of using plastic. I have 50 choices in chenille to use along with a lot of maribou so why not use…
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Late ice, deep water spoon fishing
Bright sunny skies, and gin clear water pushed big blue gill deep today.....We used 1/16 oz Bluefox spoons tipped with horizontally rigged plastics, in depths of over 20ft....…
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More deep water spoon action
As the summer progresses, unusually warm conditions have pushed bluegills and sunfish deeper, and deeper....normally during this phase of the summer, fish are located in water deeper than 30 ft.....today we sought fish in 42 feet, and succeeded...1/4 oz spoons and 1lb diameter braided lines kept…
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Deep water spoon bite is on!
The big bite is on.....surface temps are in the upper 70's to low 80's....fish are deep, and smacking the spoons more than 6 fathoms deep!1/4 oz spoons tipped with wax worms, and probed deep within Geneva's abyss.…
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Best Day Yet on the Spoon
Got to slip away for a few hours this evening at a 'new' pond. Started using the 1/8 oz RF blue neon spoon and picked up a few big gills but was missing alot of strikes. Scaled down to the 1/16 oz gold RF spoon and tipped it with a piece of Gulp earthworm on the single hook.Gills and bass were…
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Spoon Hooks
This is the Mustad straight shank, open eye Siwash hook in size 8, and size 6.....almost identical to the Eagle Claw L210's...they are available at Cabela's.
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First Spoon Fishing Seminar Rocks the Windy City!
The seminar at the Cabela's store in Chicago was a big hit. Quite a few inquisitive individuals attended......and it was a pleasure to meet other fellow anglers, and internet acquaintances that have an interest in this methodology.A northern Illinois seminar is in the works....all proceeds will…
