Can we have a blue gill thread?

that'd be cool...perhaps move it to the warmwater forum though. Shoot, it's been probably 10 years since I've targeted them....that was always good fun!
 
Love these little dudes. Used to have a couple solid spots when I lived in Bham. Need to do some more exploring down here. I stopped at an old central WA haunt on my way home from MT the other day and all I caught were a few 3" gills and a few ticks.
 
Boated several last week just messing about. I love em! I miss those old bluegill poppers you could buy for a quarter apiece…surface action is the best!
 
ffb said:
Love these little dudes. Used to have a couple solid spots when I lived in Bham. Need to do some more exploring down here. I stopped at an old central WA haunt on my way home from MT the other day and all I caught were a few 3" gills and a few ticks.
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It’s trippy how some lakes grow them while others dont
Maybe something to do with the bass population
 
clarkman said:
that'd be cool...perhaps move it to the warmwater forum though. Shoot, it's been probably 10 years since I've targeted them....that was always good fun!
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Yeah that would be fine
I guess I read that forum as bass centric
 
Nice photos! I had tons of fun at bluegill, crappie, micro bass lakes in the Willamete Valley during college years.
 
@Evan B gots jokes. But I love me some bluegill. Pound for pound (ounce for ounce?), a heck of a hard fighting fish. Even little 'gills give a nice pull on a light rod. The small ones are easy enough to catch that you can usually always find a few, the big ones are cagey and rare enough that you feel like you've accomplished something when you bring it to hand. Best fish ever for getting kids to feel the stoke of fishing.

I usually fish topwater for them. They will hit a small foam popper through most of the summer even when bass have gotten less interested. But I have also used a little bugger or something similar at times. Heck, there's one little lake here where they seem to go nuts for just a small attractor dry fly like an Adams or Royal Wulff.

It's great to find a little bluegill pond close to your house where you know you can stop by for a few casts and have a shot at catching one. But I also love a lazy summer evening in the float tube with a beer and a 3wt catching a pile of them.

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That's a nice bluegill. I like them as long as they're not blocking me from a carp grab! My buddy is still having nightmares about getting carp-blocked by a tiny little gill. This thing was easily 15# and would've been his first carp.
I saw the whole thing go down and still not sure how the little bastard beat the carp to the grab. They're quick!!
 
Josh said:
@Evan B gots jokes. But I love me some bluegill. Pound for pound (ounce for ounce?), a heck of a hard fighting fish. Even little 'gills give a nice pull on a light rod. The small ones are easy enough to catch that you can usually always find a few, the big ones are cagey and rare enough that you feel like you've accomplished something when you bring it to hand. Best fish ever for getting kids to feel the stoke of fishing.

I usually fish topwater for them. They will hit a small foam popper through most of the summer even when bass have gotten less interested. But I have also used a little bugger or something similar at times. Heck, there's one little lake here where they seem to go nuts for just a small attractor dry fly like an Adams or Royal Wulff.

It's great to find a little bluegill pond close to your house where you know you can stop by for a few casts and have a shot at catching one. But I also love a lazy summer evening in the float tube with a beer and a 3wt catching a pile of them.

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Totally agree
I can spend a enjoyable evening playing with these guys
On a quest for a 12 incher
Got a solid10 last year
I talked to a guy at flywater travel to book a blue gill trip and he laughed
 
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