Chick, there's one other way to look at that hole. If there are lots of bluegill in the spring and not many later on, I would catch a few of those small, early 'gills, scale them and cut off the fillets. Then I would put those fillets on some nice circle hooks on the bottom with a slip sinker. You might get turtles or you might get some nice cats that clean up all those young bluegills every spring.

catfishchick, That reminds me of something that happened to my dad and a friend of his on Lake of the Woods. One evening after supper, Dad went for a walk along the shore of island they were staying on and came across a pole lying in the water several feet out from the bank. He waded in and picked it up and found there was a fish on it, which proved to be a nice northern pike. The next day, they were trolling for walleyes and Dad's friend got a strike. He reeled in a nice walleye but his hook had never touched it. His hook went through the eye on the swivel on a leader on a flatfish in the walleye's mouth. Figure the odds of that!