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Comment by Walt Foreman on June 16, 2014 at 7:10pm

I couldn't say the age of the fish, Tony.  I began working with this particular pond in the summer of 2009; at that time there were no bass left in the pond, and the bluegill were badly overpopulated and averaged 3".  Since I doubt one of those fish that were already in the pond that first year would have made it to this size, I would say it's probably a max of five years old, but it could be younger.  But that's just a wild guess.  

Comment by Tony Livingston on June 16, 2014 at 6:39pm

Walt, do you have an approx. age for this fish?

Comment by Walt Foreman on June 16, 2014 at 6:28pm

Note that the tail isn't pinched so it would have measured 11.5".

Comment by Walt Foreman on June 16, 2014 at 6:27pm

Funny you should mention weight, Tony.  I only fished today because on Friday when I was treating this pond for some duckweed that just got brought into it recently by ducks, I saw a fish that, if it was a bluegill, I wouldn't even tell you how big it looked because no one would believe it; I just got a quick look at the fish as it rolled to get away from my nearby johnboat.  So today I went to the pond by myself, and took a fruit/vegetable scale, along with a plastic storage bin I thought would be big enough to lay my tournament ruler in so I that if I caught the giant I could have it in water while I measured it, but ithe bin was about an inch too short.  

And, I didn't catch the fish I saw on Friday, of course.  When I caught this one I was going to weigh it, but then it got to flopping all over the boat and I wanted to get it back into the water so I didn't get the weight.  I would guess between 1.5 and 2 pounds.  It was easily the biggest pure-strain bluegill I personally have caught (a couple guide clients have caught some big ones in the past year but this was my biggest to date). 

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on June 16, 2014 at 6:22pm

That's a horse........

Comment by dick tabbert on June 16, 2014 at 6:09pm

Great looking gill.

Comment by Tony Livingston on June 16, 2014 at 6:09pm

Outstanding fish here, Walt!  Did you get a weight?

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