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Giant bluegill using the Modica spooning method.

Here's a massive bluegill caught on Bill "Musky" Modica's spooning method.  This method has been heavily featured lately by In-Fisherman Magazine, both in print and on their nationally acclaimed fishing show.

 

This fish was over a foot long, and looked like it was taking steriods.  I'd love for Bill to describe this particular spoon and why he likes it so much.  Bill recommended I use this setup, and it worked like a charm.

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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on January 16, 2012 at 3:43pm

Wander if anyone has tried the Spoon technique on Richmond Mill yet Bruce......just makes you think what if? I'll be waiting for the Coppernose photos......The fish pictured are jaw dropping!

Comment by Bruce Condello on January 16, 2012 at 3:31pm

...and the bite was VERY slow otherwise.  These fish are obviously well fed, but they couldn't resist the spoon.  Used a little black and green "tippage". :-)

Comment by Bruce Condello on January 16, 2012 at 3:24pm

Believe it or not, those are all standard "northern strain" bluegill.  But the spoon method also worked great on the coppernose.  There's a lot more photos to come.  We simply walked the shoreline, and cast to the deepest water in the pond.  Probably worked so well because these fish are heavily into eating fish.  Fatheads, gambusia, and shiner fry all end up in the bluegill belly each day.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on January 16, 2012 at 1:47pm

You can't top testimony supported by the photos of huge gills! ....Awesome fish Bruce! 

Comment by Tony Livingston on January 16, 2012 at 12:37pm

I forgot to ask.... machrochirus, purpurescens, or Condello strain?

They're so dark, it's hard to tell.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on January 16, 2012 at 12:27pm

Wow, look the size of that little guy. If we haul something like that out of our water, we'll be shooting fireworks. Just truly unreal gill.

Comment by Tony Livingston on January 16, 2012 at 12:14pm

Bruce, those fish are unreal. Spawning, or deeper water casting/trolling?

If spawning, do they tend to congregate at the center of the nesting colony, like the largest males do, and were those particular fish's nests larger than what you would consider "average"?

Meaning, do you find the size of the nest an accurate visual indicator, as far as the size of the fish that made it, to help determine where to cast, when you're in search of a giant?

Comment by Tim Overbaugh on January 16, 2012 at 12:11pm

Some more goliath gills from Bruce. On a jigging spoon!  A good method to weed out the smaller fish.

I hope Bill chimes in and it would be cool to hear the particulars on how Bruce landed these two brutes.

Great catch! 

Comment by John Sheehan on January 16, 2012 at 11:58am

They look like the Olmec statues !

Comment by Bruce Condello on January 16, 2012 at 11:55am

Here's another shot of two insanely big bluegill that fell to the Modica technique.

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