Exit 25 is on I-29, going south of Council Bluffs.

Hey Bruce, first off great site!! I did catch that fish in my avatar and I believe it is a longear? I catch quite a few of them down in Oklahoma below Grand Lake

Heres a good one to show the wife

Bruce! sites got over 200 members now! If this thing keeps growin and folks stick with it I smell a fish fry soon. Wow. figure cookin for every member at 3 fish a pc thats a all day thing. and can you imagine makin a 50lb hushpuppy ball to fry! haha. KEEP DOIN YO THANG MAIN!

Aw shucks, Bruce! It's an honor to call you my friend! I appreciate the comments about Pond Boss and I appreciate your contributions. It just seems like yesterday when Kayla's bluegill adorned the cover...and we came to Nebraska and met up with Willis and Norm and Shorty and NEDOC and your dad and seined fish in 17 degree weather while the princess recovered in your cabin. What a life we have! And, now you embark on a new adventure. We're rootin' for ya.

I have several pictures, I just need to find a way to to go from poloroids to computer

Thanks Bruce!

Thanks for the welcome Bruce! Stumbled across this site along with "nefga" and thoroughly enjoyed the detailed level of some of the fishery related questions on both.

Can't wait for winter to be over with! I like open water :)

yes, he is a real good fishing buddy of mine. i am the one in the gray shirt.

Thanks Bruce, That is the Hybrid I had for a about 6 months in my aquarium, Very cool fish. Sadly the aquarium I had him in was small so I couldn't keep him for long, I plan on buying a bigger aquarum very soon and am going to put one or two 7 or 8 inch Hybrids in it and raise them till there BIG and then release them into the pond wereI caught the at.

hey bruce did you check on mandy ?

I'll be sure to check in often, and hope to have some of my own BIG BG pics to add soon enough!

thanks for the comment

I took notice of your website browsing through some of 'Musky Mods' you tubes. I must say I'm impressed with all the folks chatting back and forth about a very simple and yet very pleasing activity. And it is very simple, one putting high tech into fishin their missin out on a sweet part of life. Glad I 'hooked-up' with everyone.........

thanks for the invite to the site Bruce. Good stuff!

Thanks for the warm welcom Big Bruce! You've got some nice pics on your page! Esspecially the big black bluegill in what looks like some kind of bayou or swamp country. I caught a 3/4 pound black out of the Minnesota River a couple years ago. Its lateral line or "stitch" line was red along with its eye. It was some kinda weird hybrid I think. Nice site man!

Thanks. Sitting here in northwest Pa under a foot of snow and 10 degrees. Just bought a home with a nice strip mine lake out back and wondering if I can wait until spring to fish it or drill some holes one of these weekends and see what is catchable.

I got a chance to try it november and caught a lot of small crappie and a few small bluegill. Don't know if the fish are "stunted" or the big ones were hiding? Caught some nice largemouths in the 2 to 3 pound range.

thanks,yes this was caught at philpott near the dam

IM countin the days Bruce. We have less than 8weeks and the bowls in the sand start showin up. I cant wait for that water to get to 72 WOOOOOHOOOOOOO its gonna be a good year. Ive got 22 christmas trees, Soon to have a trailor load of pallets and mounds of tires. Ive gotta go get some CRETE! This years pics are going to be recoredededed catches

thanks. where are most of you guys from? im from lake erie ohio.

i am interested in finding info on fishing NW Ohio and SE Michigan

Nice page BBGB!




Big Blue Gill Boss

Hey Bruce! Heres an idea!

Can you put in a search engine for big bluegill members? If you do please put a search by location. This site is gettin huge and its an oppertunity to talk with alot more guys that are fishing under the same conditions as me and it would make it a whole lot easier to view there profiles to see what there catching and maybe start up more discussions about fishing in our regional conditions!

Just a thought!

I LOVE fishing for gillies. So happy my buddy John Brown told me about you. I have several buddies that I'm sure would join. Yes good idea about an Italian name. I plan on getting my picture on the sight just as soon as my son shows me how to do it.
Loved the story about the Hidden Pond. Loved the ending when the guy said he remembered the smile.
Later then
Bluegill Phil

Hey Bruce... That would be great... If there is anything I can do to help, well I'm just a short E-mail away... by the way... I like your music... Later, Ed

Bruce I've got some pictures that I'll put on the site in a few days.
Thanks for hooking me up.
Later then

Thanks Bruce, I really think that I will be happy that I found this site.... Again Thanks.... Ed

Thanks for the welcome Bruce, I'm sure I will enjoy the site.

Thanx Bruce. My 2 brothers and I have fished for Bass, Walleye and Gills our entire lives, (over 50 years), but the bluegill has always been # 1 for us. Glad to see a "Bluegill" site.

I think thats a good start! Remeber we fish creeks, rivers and beverdamns alllllllllll year here. NO ICE!!! Also we get our spawning season almost a month a head of yall to. Its good to live in the south!

Thanks a lot for featuring my profile!!!

Bruce, I wish I could post a pic but I caught that one 30 years ago this past spring(I remember well as that was when my bro had his first heart attack). I fileted it up with the other gills I caught that day. Before fileting I did show it to the family as I did not think they would believe it either. That was in the day when we didn't take many pics and didn't have the money to mount. Frying em up was what we did.

thanks for responding. fished today without luck tryed three different lakes

thanks for the add

Yeah, thanks for the welcome. The crappie is an In-Fish award winner that I got at Piney Run lake in MD last Feb. 15 1/2 in, probly over 2 lbs, put her back. Hoping to go to Deep Creek Lake in West Md next week as ice came on and they have been bustin 12 to 15 in perch and tanker gills nearing 12. Awesome ice fishing lake. Hope to go tommorow in a local pond, I let you know what happens.

Thanks Bruce. I am a lifelong open water fisherman, but this is only my third year on the ice. Those big bluegill are a thrill for me through the ice,

We'll see what happens...hope the ice is thick enough...I 'm new to this computer thing, but I'll try to get you some nice pix of some of our bigger gills and some amazing hybrid sunfish, thanks again!

Thanks for the welcome Bruce, I live in western PA and love catching and eating big bluegills. Hope to learn a lot from your site.

Thanks for the welcome, I saw the link for this site in the newest issue of In-Fishermen. From a quick glance around, I think I will be able to learn alot from here.

I'll check my pics ,if not I'll take some this spring

Sorry Bruce, best I could do until spring

how bout the weekend update ice any big gills ?
i travel i-80 across NE quite abit i see all these ponds along the interstate
with guys fishn in em
evedr tried these, do they have big gills in em?
chris

I know this is a late post, but I had to watch the football game. Any way, went to a pond about 2 pm today...4 in of hard ice, so I fished...got a 9 in gill on my very first drop! Ended up with 4 nice gills and three largemouths of about 1 1/2 lbs each. Missed some other fish...got them all on a 1/10 oz gold Kastmaster w/ Gulp! maggots in 4 to 5 ft of water...6 in off the bottom...slow and steady jigging. Ice was crystal clear and could see the fish coming up to the hole. We've caught bass to 24 in here in the spring & summer...glad I didn't hook one of those!

Hello Bruce, Hope to add more pic's & vid's this year. Really enjoy this site. And the BIG Gill pic's & video's !!

Bruce, thanks for the information. I enjoy the web site and all the information that is available.

Thank You Bruce
Looks like it is a real good site!

Thanks for the welcome. Looks like a great site! Heard about your site from the pages of InFisherman magazine.

Hi Bruce ...Great site...nothing wrong with Bull Gills!


Very aggressive on Vernon Valley Lake today ...Crappie i lost was a lite biter but not those gills God bless em'

Unfortunatly I did not own a digital camera when I got the big one. I weighed it and put it back in the pond. The hybrids have been getting smaller every year since the peak about 7 years ago. I did put a picture of a 13" for my profile picture (though it is truncated somewhat) - if you look at the bottom of the photo you will see my shoe (size 10.5) for reference.