Arizona monster!

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Comment by James Micheal Landrum on May 14, 2011 at 8:44pm

My little ULTRA-LITE would have been totally DESTROYED

Comment by Mark McKinney on May 10, 2011 at 7:33pm

i would have passed out in the boat!! they would have had to give me mouth to mouth or i wouldnt have seen the next day!!!

Comment by Joshua Bryan Palmer on May 10, 2011 at 5:15pm

My God I thought I would never live to see the day...

Comment by Dennis on May 6, 2011 at 11:25pm

Jeff,

Havasu is a VERY clear water lake. It is really funny as I have never gone out to intentionally catch Bluegill here even though I love them both in fight and in taste but every time I go bass fishing dragging night crawlers I seem to find big Bluegills. It doesn't matter if I am bank or boat fishing. So, since I catch big Bluegills where I catch Bass that leeds me to believe that they run together once the Gills are too big for the bass to eat. As far as cover goes you can find it all over the lake and points and coves galore. Havasu is 28 miles long and has over 700 miles of shoreline. I have seen Flatheads come out of here that are in the 60+ pound range, Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass that are hoggs and the Gills are huge. Just a few weeks ago a gent caught a 42 pound Stripped Bass on a top water plug. About the only thing we really do not have in abundance which amazes me is Crappie.

In any event, when you get ready to come give me a call and i'd be happy to spend a day fishing with you. I am in between boats at the time but should have another in a few weeks. I like using pontoon boats for fishing. At the lower end of the lake are reeds similar to what you'd see down south. The fish here are extremely healthy and strong as can be. I have caught gills mostly on night crawlers so it did not suprise me when I saw that he caught that monster on a plastic worm. I have also caught many on meal worms and cricketts. They are here and it is a great town with lots of friendly people. Fishing will be good from now all the way through Oct.

Dennis

Comment by Mike Stacy on May 6, 2011 at 11:00pm

Hats OFF... SALUTE!!! O...M...G!!! I'm hittin' Havasu, but I'm shopping around for a bigger frying pan before I go. 

Is this really the result of zebra mussels? I thought they were supposed to be BAD! What a wonderful solution to the "Problem". Please, everyone, be quick on the trigger with emails to any news report of the "mussel menace"... attach a pic of this BEAUTIFUL fish, and suggest red ear sunfish as a solution. WE love the finny devils, but the other folks out there might be clueless... so please, let them know, Stock the lakes!

I heard he caught it fishing for bass. What a BLESSING! I write many words in praise of bass [my profile pic is one release out of hundreds] but never in my most fevered dreams have I ever imagined a red ear this BIG! I catch bass, and eat the small ones, for the proper management of bream waters [wink, nudge]... but the 'gills are the PRIZE! Better than bass in every way... so I'll say it again, what a BLESSING! Better than any bass, any size, ANYWHERE! Amen!

And if I was fishing Havasu, in that gin clear water... I'd sink live crawfish on a 6 AH run from a dropper loop over a 1/2 oz lead... glowsticks on my rod tips, from dusk 'till dawn... I'm betting the BIG ones feed HARD in the shallows after sundown. Word to the wise!

Comment by Jeff Soto on May 6, 2011 at 10:02pm

Wow!  OK Dennis I am going to have to get a trip planned for that place.  I'm really not more than a few hours drive away anyway.  Can I contact you to find out when and where I should fish for these big Bluegill?

Comment by Dennis on May 6, 2011 at 8:01pm

Jeff,

Yep I mean it. Now common as in you catch one anytime?? No, common as in you catch a 2 or 3 pounder once every few trips? Yes. I am dead serious, I have never ever seen Bluegill anywhere as big as the ones here. Many years ago AZGF placed hundreds of 4' x 4' cages all over the lake to help other fish populations avoid getting eaten out by the Strippers. That combined with the mussels and there has been an explosion of large gills as well as Red Ears. Last year my wife and I were on the other side of the lake and I looked into about 2' of water and there was a herd of large Gills that I would estimate the smallest fish at 10 to 12 inches all running together in one pack, it was incredible. What was more so was my wife got off the boat into the water and I thought they would scatter and i will be darned if those fish were not swimming fearlessly around her legs in the water. It literally was a memory of a lifetime. Oh and 1 to 1.5 pounders are a dime a dozen here.

Comment by Jeff Soto on May 6, 2011 at 7:47pm

Dennis- When you say "two and three pound Bluegill are common",  do you really mean Bluegill or are you talking about Redear Sunfish?  I can't imagine 2 and 3 lb BLUEGILL being  common, as much as I can Redear...

Comment by Dennis on May 6, 2011 at 7:38pm

That is a fish of a lifetime. Living at Lake Havasu and fishing all over California and Arizona I have to say, I have never ever seen more and bigger BlueGill anywhere. You catch a nice BlueGill up to a poound you think wow, what a fish but here in Lake Havasu, two and three pound Bluegill are common. If you like big big Bluegill, come to lake Havasu as hardly anyone fishes for them. Also the Smallmouth Bass bite is pretty darn good as well.

Comment by John Sheehan on May 5, 2011 at 12:39pm

Noone here doesn't wish they caught that excellent Fish!A MONSTER!

Yes Robert ,4 burners to cook that panfish !!

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