Can we have a blue gill thread?

Found this little nuisance along with 15-20 of his friends while looking for spooky carp at a local pond. I did manage to get a single carp refusal, but the had to get back to work.

Didn't put up much of a fight on my short 8/9wt Steffen glass though.
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rudyc said:
Got back out again this week for more smiles. Found some Yellow Bass as well
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Looks like some spunky little guys👍. I caught a few yesterday myself….they sure can make me laugh. 😎

and never heard of a yellow bass…looks kinda like a crappie with stripes
 
…. and had to chuckle a little more ….I did a quick search and learned yellow bass are native to the Mississippi. I grew up in NE Iowa and still had never heard of ‘em 🤪
 
Ah, bluegills! Fly fished for them with a Cajun named Russel Daigle in south Louisiana in the mid 70’s. Throwing popping bugs to “bedding” fish behind big cypress trees was a hoot. The tricky part was not disturbing the low hanging wasp nests! My Cajun buddy was a hoot, if we got into really nice “bream” (pronounced “brim”) he called them “titty bream” because you had to hold them against your chest to unhook’em.

Then I went to Auburn University to study fisheries and I learned pond dynamics necessary to produce those big “tittie bream”! One of my best friends there, a native Alabama boy, Mike, and I would walk to edge of our research ponds throwing poppers in what he called “perch jerking”. They aren’t perch of course but Mike liked how it sounded.

The biggest I ever caught were in Toledo Bend lake on the Texas/Louisiana border. We couldn’t find them with flies but we caught bluegills pushing over a half pound using crickets.It’s the only time I caught those fun little battlers big enough to filet.

I haven’t thought about those times in years. My buddies are dead now but the memories are great reruns playing in my mind. Thanks for triggering the reruns!
 
IMG_5586.jpegIMG_5593.jpegIMG_5601.jpegHad a fun evening chasing these fiesty panfish last evening with a buddy
Wasn’t hot by any means but great way to spend the last hours of the day

Going to try late morning next as I did a driveby at 10:00 and heard a lot of eats

Cheers
 
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ffb said:
Those are some slabs! Been a while since I've chased bluegill and crappie. I think I know what I'm doing this weekend...
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Sweet!
You have some good spots up there
Let’s get out together some time
 
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This lake has put out some bigger gills for me in the past, but not today. Still a lot of fun to watch them attack a small gurgler.
There were lots of fish dimpling around the beaver hut. Also caught some micro bass.
Glad I wore my rain jacket. Juneuary felt good. 😂
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Stonedfish said:
This lake has put out some bigger gills for me in the past, but not today. Still a lot of fun to watch them attack a small gurgler.
There were lots of fish dimpling around the beaver hut. Also caught some micro bass.
Glad I wore my rain jacket. Juneuary felt good. 😂
SF

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What an awesome looking place to fish. Lily pads a huge beaver dam.
 
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