June 2013 Blog Posts (10)

hey everyone i'm kinda new here and iv been needing some help with trying to catch some quality gill and i don't know were to go here in southern California (Fillmore Californian to be specific)  to find them. i mostly fish from land but am trying to figure out how to make a kayak of duct tape to tack with me. anything and everything helps.

Oklahoma is known as a BASS STATE or a CATFISH STATE! PERIOD!!!!!!  SUNFISH are use for fishing for the 2 fish I just mentioned!!!!!!!

  Imagine my SURPRISE when I went to state wild life department of OKLAHOMA and FOUND THIS!!!!!!!!

  http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/

NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL FIND ON THE NET!!!!!!!!

    Hello,

    I am not really a bluegill fisherman per-say but I have caught my fair share of bluegills in my life. The biggest bluegill I have ever caught was an 11.75" malel at wagon train last year. Went out to Wildwood a couple weeks ago to fish for catfish, and every cat fisherman has to fish for bait. I have fished there a lot for bait and have caught a few of…

So up to today I have had to have unexpected surgery on my wrist which will prevent me from fishing until fall.  The good news here, I have health insurance.

Last week or so, we had all the rain and it turned a little creek (2" deep) into a 5' river.  This in turn flooded my house.   Good news, kids safe and I have minimal damage.  Mold is the only looming concern.

This river though, it filled my pond up.  Thats great since I had drained it and killed off the…

Black caterpillars with spikes and red feet laying dead in my boat  and in the driveway under some trees. Any Entomologist friends out there that can ID these .? Maybe Mourning cloak  :…

The one the only David Eitutis will be in our boat tomorrow. Should be fun!

"I have a friend who's a dentist in Lincoln....

growing bigger Bluegills is what he's a'thinkin'.

He'll practice genetic selection...

in search of Lepomis perfection,

Or maybe, he'll cross em' with a Chinquapin.......

Happy 50th Birthday Bruce!!!!!! Hope you have a great day, and thanks for all that you do for us here at BBG!!

After seeing Bruce and Teeg and Josh and others with all those big hybrid sunfish posted up I decided to check my local hybrid factory, a 2 acre pond about 25 miles south of me, to see if I could catch a few good ones. The pond owner said that they hadn't had much luck with them so far this spring, but I didn't let that bother me too much. Last October I had taken a GSF x BG here that measured 12 inches,,,the first 12 inch sunfish, of any kind, I had taken in my home, or local, waters. So I…

Went to check one of my favorite lakes this evening as we had some flooding a couple of weeks ago.  Lake level was up three ft but that didn't keep me from finding some of my marked bedding spots.  Paddled back to a nice shallow flat where the water was about 5ft,  The water had cleared up a lot so I was able to see the nice stretch of craters well before I was on them.  Distanced my kayak several feet away and rolled out a cast with a popper dropper rig.  Slurp!!! Mr. Bluegill was home. …