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Ok i posted about this spot i call the honey hole. Its a little spot i found that is full of the biggest bluegill ever and no matter what time of day or when i go i alway catch atleast 10 to 20 big huge one but it always on live bait mostly crickets!!! i wanna jig in that same area but i cant get a bite on no fake bait.im fishing from the bank. any tips?

Saturday evening headed out directly after work to my favorite bluegill hole, armed with various colors of the Greasy Monkey fly. Since I'd been catching fish of late on my little brown bug, I decided to tie on a brown Greasy Monkey with a copper stripe down the side.  This was my prize.…

Hello everybody!

I am new to this site, and glad I found it.

I was wondering if anyone had some guidelines for making a good cane pole?

Usually I use an ultralight spinning outfit, but it's been so weedy, when I'm hoping for a fish supper I'd like to just haul the little guys right out of the water!

I cast out a small mini-mite attempting to catch some bluegill and perch. On the first cast a 6" perch grabs it. As I was bringing him in something just started taking drag like crazy. I kid you not a 20+ pound channel cat goes to the surface and spits the perch out. But the fun wasn't finished. Within seconds two more bass are looking at the perch. One nice one eats it and I pull back hard to let my dad throw the plastic worm to them but I had hooked the stupid green carp. So after going…

  Am about to add a new fly rod to the inventory and wonder if anyone has tried out the new           Wright  & McGill Generation II S-Curve rods?  That 9' 4wt might be just the ticket.  Dick Kahle

  Am about to add a new fly rod to the inventory and wonder if anyone has tried out the new           Wright  & McGill Generation II S-Curve rods?  That 9' 4wt might be just the ticket.  Dick Kahle

http://www.finefishing.com/1freshfish/aaspecies/panfish/bgillrec.htm

I really enjoyed the story....Many of you may have already read it.....Pretty cool that a little…

CRAPPIES ARE TOUGH WERE I FISH. NOTICE THE DAMAGE TO THE MOUTH OF THE 7-1/2" BLUEGILL. CATCH & RELEASE WORKS! UNFORTUNATELY, ONLY THE CRAPPIE WAS HEALTHY ENOUGH TO RELEASE. CRAPPIE WAS 7" BLUEGILL & SUNFISH 7-1/2" ROCKBASS 8". NOT BAD FOR SHORE FISHING IN MICHIGAN.…

And see how the size 8 BH Wooly Buggers that I tied up last night work.

I started off with a size 6 Gurgle-Pop as an indicator bug, with a size 8 BH Wooly Bugger on a dropper about 2’ below the Gurgle-Pop.  The first fish decided to go for the Gurgle-Pop:

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After a little while, I realized…

I started out with the GREASY MONKEY, this morning!!!!! Because it was working really well last time out!!!!!! This is a fly that was shared by BRYAN W.!!!!!!! It is a fun fly and is quite effective!!!!!!

http://bigbluegill.com/group/flytyingandspecificinstructionsonly/forum/topics/the-greasy-monkey…

I had tied up a deer-hair bass popper that I wanted to try out, so off to the pond at work I went this afternoon.  The popper works, although nothing decided to sample it.

I was seeing a few surface hits here and there, so I decided to put on a foam hopper and see if any of the sunnies were hungry.  I didn’t get any hits on top, so I tied a dropper onto the hopper and dangled a BH Wooly Bugger below the hopper.

I got a few hits, but didn’t connect with…

Yesterday, I was tying up a storm, since it was my day off.  Several different GFA Hopper patterns, to round out the basic color variety that we get here in OK.  Green, yellow w/ green, yellow w/ brown, and brown.  I might tie up some yellow w/ white, as my son Logan caught a yellow hopper with white wings this morning when we were fishing.

I also tied up some Gurgle-Pops in different colors, and a couple in size 6, intended for some LMB's.  I took a stab at tying a size 12…

I watch a number of you tube videos featuring some of our members catching big gills and crackers.  My question is why do you release them?  Is it simply that your freezers are full, or is there a state regulation on length limits?  I know that in some private compounds such as Richmond Mills that you folks catch and release because you want the population to grow.  If that is the case, doesn't the lake get to the point where you need to take a few out?  Please understand that I'm not…

Looks like we may get a break over the next few days, as highs are forecasted to top out around 90 degrees through next weekend. It hit 105 degrees here today, with a wind chill of 106! Never saw that before...... Still no rain though, and none in sight.

Gage and I did get out for an hour this afternoon. The fish were cooperative and we caught and released quite the mixed bag, consisting of Hybrid gills' Native gills, Redears, Hybrid Striped Bass, and one Channel Cat. No big fish,…

Caught a small break in the heat on the 4th, so I went to my friend's lake to test out some new colors of the 1" jig that I hand inject.  It wasn't anymore than the second cast when I hit pay dirt catching a 3/4 pound gill.  On the following cast, I hit another gill about the same weight.  That new smoke/silver glitter did the trick.  I was on the lake about 8:00 AM and was off at noon with 18 nice gills and redears to my credit.  Sure felt great watching that 6' ultralite bend.  Hope ya'll…

Made plans to fish my favorite hybrid sunfish pond this morning. Got there about 8:45 AM and it was already starting to heat, with highs predicted in the 100's. Started off with a grey grass shrimp 1/64 th oz hairjig and picked up a few scrawny bass, then dropped it over near the dock and let it free-fall to the bottom. Before I reached a 4 count had a bump and set the hook to this, my firat of 15 hybrid sunfish today...GSF X BG cross...…

Summer is here- it is safe to say now that Chicago is in the grips of 3 - 100 degree days in a row, a record that stood slightly longer than the Cubs have endured without a championship. Speaking of records:

Some numbers hard to ignore - you bet ya. Big news from the last time out. I set a goal on my podcast and I beat my goal and personal best for fish…

Hit the lake at 6:30 this morning and the water was already 85 degrees. Started the first hour fly fishing poppers. The bite has slowed down from last week with the bluegill and shellcracker holding deeper in the 8' depth but managed to catch a few of each. (will add the pics)

By 7:30 had my jigs looking for the crappie. Been finding a lot of small fish and have worked hard over the last month trying to find some bigger fish. Well today I found them in 8' of water bitting a foot off…

I finally got on the water today for the first time in ages, rising at 4:00 for the occasion. Float tube, a couple of fly rods, and one spinning rod preloaded into the minivan the night before, so all I had to do was get in and drive.



The day started off really slow. After paddling from the parking lot area across to where I intended to start prospecting, I had a tiny bass (6 or 7" hit the popper I was trolling from my fly rod as I went. Then, around the point, some hits on a…

ya'll know it a hot sumer in the south, have been do good in the early morn,last weekend it finely

started to rain i was on the cosa river,no lighting every cast i caught a nice gill,only one big 10"

rest 8"to9" lasted till the rain stopped,sorry don't know how to do picture's, love this site, this

is a brim fisher's dream ya'll keep up the outstanding work,,,