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Biggest Blue Gills

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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?
 

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#30 ·
Ya,,, they'll make your hands shake with anticipation!
We try not to take TOOO many out of there,,,,, kinda hit 'em harder through the ice,,,, maybe 90-100 a year.

I'd LOVE to cross-breed ours with 'DARTH VADER'!!!
But it looks like 'HE' might have an attitude,,,, & SCARE ALL THE GIRLS AWAY!?
OMG,,, LOL,,, Maybe 'HE' IS A SHE!? :eek:


Anyway, Here's another pic from Bob,,,, I was told 9" up. I'd guess that 1/2 of that paper is 12"?

Duck Water bird Bird Metal


I need to go fish,,,,, I'm starting to LOOSE IT! :rolleyes:
 
#33 ·
All Eyes - That is the scariest looking gill I've ever seen. Hands down, no question. Wow

Some amazing looking gills here. My pb was this summer at a local farm pond (of course) at 10". Caught on a roadrunner jig with baby shad body. That pond is full of big gills.

-B
 
#37 ·
Quick story my buddie had his pond ice out a few years back.two years later we walked over with a couple white twister tails.Three cast in I caught a 12 5/8 inch bluegill weighed in at 1.65 pounds.he would not let me let it go it now lives on my wall.That was my biggest by atleast two inches.To the best our knowledge it was living in pond alone for two years.Maybe that let him grow to that size was a real gill not a hybrid.
 
#43 · (Edited)
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?
It may be a Warmouth. Doesn't look like a gill. never mind - it would have a large mouth/jaw like a Rock bass - from your pic it doesn't - it's a beut though !
 
#56 ·
I've told this story before on this site but here goes again! Couple buds and I were casting CP swings with half a crawler for walleye on the edge of a deep weedbed(8 ft!) in early June several years ago at Mosquito. We started catching the biggest gills I've ever encountered, and they had all three hooks of the treble inside their mouths!(These fish were spawning nearly halfway across the lake off that weedbed!) I wear an xl glove and could not hold those fish flat in my hand to unhook them-had to hold them across the back. We caught maybe a dozen or so before we lost the weeds due to chop from the wind that kicked up(no locator!) That lake still can produce big gills but not like those true "hogs"! No pics(pre cell phone era!:))
 
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