This weekend I caught my personal best Blue Gill. Although i didn't have a tape measure handy so i'm not sure of it's actual size. It was bigger then what i could hold in one hand. I had to hold it by the lip, like a bass.
How big can blue gills get? What are your best size pan fish?
That's a good one for sure. What ever you do don't say where you caught it.. Been goofing around with an old fly rod and getting some nice ones but nothing that size.
Congratulations on the PB bluegill, Very nice blue gill the color is dark much darker than any I have seen. A unique trophy. Did it come from a dark water pond?
The water was pretty clear I thought. Most of the little ones I was catching had very bright vibrant colors. This one was definitely darker. The picture was also taken about 8:30 pm which makes it look even darker.
My brother has a 12.25 inch 2.5 pounder on the wall but yours is at least a pound and a half I would guess. I've never caught one that big it's a hog for sure nice catch!
Nice fish, looks like a bluegill/redear hybrid to me. The world record bluegill is 5 pounds, 7 ounces from South Carolina. Our state record in NC is 4 pounds, five ounces.
That is a very nice gill - My biggest was caught ice fishing a cow pond a few years back - It was just over 10 inch and caught on a wax worm.
Several years ago I was bass fishing Jackson lake with a friend when he caught a gill just shy of 11 inches on a crank bait.
Looks more like redear to me. I just cant see any red around the black gill. Black body. My buddy and I caught about 100 that size 8 to 10.5 inch this past week.
Very nice gills KPenny and the rest of you. Here is a freak that my uncle caught in Mississippi a few years ago. That is a 5 gallon bucket he is laying on. Looks like Darth Vader.
Very nice gills KPenny and the rest of you. Here is a freak that my uncle caught in Mississippi a few years ago. That is a 5 gallon bucket he is laying on. Looks like Darth Vader. View attachment 209368
I posted some 'ice' farm pond pics a while back,,,, Friend Bob checked it out a couple of days ago.
The front 3 were 11-1/4" PLUS! VERY small jigs, maggots or 1/2 mealworm.
Here's the pic;
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