Bluegill - Big Bluegill

Do you love big bluegill?

Fly Rod, Spinning gear, and spoons, a deadly combo

I'm finally starting to get into some decent gills, some fish worthy of this outstanding community of bluegill enthusiasts!

Hit some of my ol' favorites, and some new waters last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Not much for the story, fished, fished hard, tried several different tactics until I found out A) where the gills were, and B) what they wanted.  It varied from body of water, to body of water.  Fished from shore and the float tube.

Enjoy the pic parade

I has teeth, and I wants big food!



9" gills just don't look that big when your a giant, my buddy Wray fools several after switching to a sinking line


Crappie???? I wasn't lookin' for no stinkin' Crappie!  eh, you're not bad, smile for the camera!  Caught on a 1/64th oz jig head with any product that has the following terms in it..... 1"...... GULP.... Alive!


Fly rod not working, but the jig head is?  Let's see what a spoon will produce, Thank you Bill!





So close to another Master Angler fish, I coulda cried.


Views: 1293

Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Great pics Alex!
What spoon are you using, and where can you purchase them?

thanks

John
I was using the last of my stash of bluefox rattlin' flash spoons, 1/16th oz, in firetiger. No longer made to my knowledge in that size. sometimes I see them on Ebay, usually when I'm broke.
Great pics! Love the boat too!
Thanks Alex, I Googled them and found some.

John
Nice pictures! Was your buddy trolling or casting in his tube? Why did the sinking line make a difference? Reason for all the questions/ I am love to "troll" in my kickboat and was thinking about buying a sinking or sinktip line.
Thanks,
Tom
Tom, he was casting. We were fishing in about 8-10 of water, and the gills were hanging out in the bottom 2' of water or so. With the fly he had on, he could have gotten his fly to where the fish were with a long enough leader/tippet combo, and a small split shot, but it would have taken forever.

With the sink tip fly line, it only takes a few seconds for the fly to get into the target zone.
Great stuff. Alex, you are really a huge bonus to this forum. Thanks for all your great contributions!
Alex,
Thanks for the reply! I can't wait to find a sink tip line. I don't have the patience to wait on a long leader/floating line.
Tom
Alex, I'm JEALOUS! :-D

RSS

Latest Activity

Jeffrey D. Abney commented on Jeffrey D. Abney's photo
5 hours ago
Jeffrey D. Abney commented on Jeffrey D. Abney's photo
5 hours ago
dick tabbert commented on Jeffrey D. Abney's photo
6 hours ago
dick tabbert commented on Jeffrey D. Abney's photo
6 hours ago
dick tabbert commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

BlueBream

"Nice fish nice dynamics."
6 hours ago
dick tabbert commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

fish1

"Looks like someone is headed to a nice fish fry."
6 hours ago
Jack Sandlin commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

fish1

"Down here in SE NC we don't have a large population of them, with the exception of Lake…"
12 hours ago
Jeffrey D. Abney posted photos
yesterday
Jeffrey D. Abney posted a status
"Went to the Black Bear Festival this morning in Plymouth, N.C….when we got home I headed out to battle strong northeast winds….."
yesterday
John Sheehan commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

BlueBream

"Bruiser !"
Friday
Troy Dorman commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

BlueBream

"Wow!!!"
Friday
Jeffrey D. Abney posted photos
Thursday
Jeffrey D. Abney commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

fish1

"Nice……how’s the white perch bite your way…..on one river last week the…"
Thursday
Jeffrey D. Abney commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

fish2

"I was up before dawn Sunday but we had gusts over 40 so I waited until Monday and we had a great…"
Thursday
Jeffrey D. Abney commented on Jack Sandlin's photo
Thumbnail

BlueBream

"This is a beautiful and addictive bluegill Jack…..congrats……I caught several…"
Thursday
Jeffrey D. Abney commented on Slip Sinker's photo
Thumbnail

#longcastlcd

"“Simple”still catches a lot of panfish Slip…..this is a bait I would throw under…"
Thursday
Slip Sinker posted a photo

#longcastlcd

keeping it simple-stupid
Thursday
Jack Sandlin posted photos
Thursday
Jeffrey D. Abney posted a photo

Two Immature Brown Water Snakes……5/31/2023

These guys are growing fast…….the top one recently shed its skin…….the bottom snake is pale because…
Wednesday
Jeffrey D. Abney posted photos
Wednesday

© 2023   Created by Bluegill.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service