[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Bluegills (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/26/2014 8:39:15 AM EDT
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On a farm pond that's rapidly being over run by suburbia.
Heat, humidity, bugs, and bluegills. On ultra light tackle. I was ten years old again for a few hours...Sigh... 
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Pan fishing is by far one of my favorite types of fishing.
I personally bought an ULTRALIGHT pole and reel to go pan fishing. It changes the whole experience... a little palm-sized fish feels like a northern when you're reeling it in. If you haven't tried it yet, fry them up with the tails. It's like fish flavored potato chips. |
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On a farm pond that's rapidly being over run by suburbia. Heat, humidity, bugs, and bluegills. On ultra light tackle. I was ten years old again for a few hours...Sigh... <a href="http://s192.photobucket.com/user/chadwimc/media/doylefish3_zps1ac62edd.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z64/chadwimc/doylefish3_zps1ac62edd.jpg</a> <a href="http://s192.photobucket.com/user/chadwimc/media/doylefish4_zpsedae57d7.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z64/chadwimc/doylefish4_zpsedae57d7.jpg</a> <a href="http://s192.photobucket.com/user/chadwimc/media/doylefish1_zpsee733827.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z64/chadwimc/doylefish1_zpsee733827.jpg</a> That is some good eating right there! 
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Off to book a trip to Arizona. 
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You can get some hellish fights going with 2 lb test and an ugly stik. Nothing like going after perch and hooking into a carp, you would think it was a sturgeon. Quoted:
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looks like a great day. fishing for panfish with an ultralight rod is way underrated. You can get some hellish fights going with 2 lb test and an ugly stik. Nothing like going after perch and hooking into a carp, you would think it was a sturgeon. hah! I haven't done that, but I did end up with a pissed off pickerel breaking my rod 6" from the tip when I was fishing for rock bass. (UL rod with 4lb test.) |
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Quoted: hah! I haven't done that, but I did end up with a pissed off pickerel breaking my rod 6" from the tip when I was fishing for rock bass. (UL rod with 4lb test.) Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: looks like a great day. fishing for panfish with an ultralight rod is way underrated. You can get some hellish fights going with 2 lb test and an ugly stik. Nothing like going after perch and hooking into a carp, you would think it was a sturgeon. hah! I haven't done that, but I did end up with a pissed off pickerel breaking my rod 6" from the tip when I was fishing for rock bass. (UL rod with 4lb test.) The rod broke before your 4lb test line did?
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BG is the best tasting fish there is, imho.
Love doing exactly what you've described. And I know precisely what you mean by being 10 years old again for a few hours. It is one of the reasons I love scouting so much. I get to be twelve years old again, one weekend a month.  
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Last Sun on my UL
http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu24/bob243_photo/IMG597_zps6e4e23c5.jpg I bet that bull bent the rod in a U pretty good! |
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Quoted: I bet that bull bent the rod in a U pretty good! Quoted: Quoted: Last Sun on my UL http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu24/bob243_photo/IMG597_zps6e4e23c5.jpg I bet that bull bent the rod in a U pretty good! |
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Quoted: Electric filet knife makes super quick work of that too  Quoted: Quoted: Good ones. My buddy has been sending me pics of big stringers of those as well. Hate to clean them but LOVE to eat them. Catch 'em, scale 'em, gut 'em, remove the head,... zip, zip, zip. My little brother and I would do this and cook 'em on the grill in tin foil, with S&P and lemon juice. It was a quick and easy meal for us as kids. |
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Quoted: Maybe sexy until she opened her mouth ETA: Fee-lay Quoted: Quoted: Here you go, watch this girl show you how its done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3iDdPfUX5g ETA: Fee-lay  |
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That is a day of pure bliss!
Bluegills are a real hoot with a 2 or 3 weight fly rod and Joe's Hoppers too. When I was a kid we hit all the ponds on the big golf course in the middle of town. Seems like we spent more time running from the park police than we did fishing.
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This is the best time of the year for bluegills and other panfish or bream as some call them. They come into shallower water and school up in big numbers for spawning, and they are easy or easier to catch.
I live over the hill from a large reservoir but no trespassing. There are many trails and roads for the water authority to sneak up on you, or they come in by boat but the boats are easier to hear. I haven't been back there to fish for years - its a $300 fine if they catch you and they will confiscate you atv if your rode in. The last few times I fished in there for bluegills I used a flyrod. I think it was a 5 or 6wt. There are some huge bass and monster pike in there too, so a heavier rod is not a bad idea. I used small poppers I made from precut balsa bodies and some small deer hair trout flies that are like poppers from a Gary LaFontaine pattern. You ought to try them on a light flyrod if you are a flyfisher. If there are no big bass in the water a 3wt is great. The pike were a little earlier in the year, when they come in to the shallow coves after winter for spawning. I know there have to be some approaching 6' by now. Around 1883 i saw a guy land a 48" pike, and he also had one about 36" and 28" on the stringer. He told me the day before he caught one even bigger - I had no reason to not believe him. This was during the winger with no ice. i was checking my trap line and saw him land the big one, and even 'though I didn't have any traps on that side of the cove I had to go way over there to be nosy. As no one is allowed to fish in this large reservoir, and only few people do so illegally, less so in the last 5-10 years, there have to be some massive bass and pike in there. But the bluegill are probably stunted unless the pike are keeping the numbers down themselves. The lake is about four miles long and close to half mile wide in spots. And bluegill are some of the best tasting freshwater fish there is. Perch maybe tops, but I'd say they are better than walleye. I always fileted them, then fried with a light breading. |
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Quoted: This is the best time of the year for bluegills and other panfish or bream as some call them. They come into shallower water and school up in big numbers for spawning, and they are easy or easier to catch. I live over the hill from a large reservoir but no trespassing. There are many trails and roads for the water authority to sneak up on you, or they come in by boat but the boats are easier to hear. I haven't been back there to fish for years - its a $300 fine if they catch you and they will confiscate you atv if your rode in. The last few times I fished in there for bluegills I used a flyrod. I think it was a 5 or 6wt. There are some huge bass and monster pike in there too, so a heavier rod is not a bad idea. I used small poppers I made from precut balsa bodies and some small deer hair trout flies that are like poppers from a Gary LaFontaine pattern. You ought to try them on a light flyrod if you are a flyfisher. If there are no big bass in the water a 3wt is great. The pike were a little earlier in the year, when they come in to the shallow coves after winter for spawning. I know there have to be some approaching 6' by now. Around 1883 i saw a guy land a 48" pike, and he also had one about 36" and 28" on the stringer. He told me the day before he caught one even bigger - I had no reason to not believe him. This was during the winger with no ice. i was checking my trap line and saw him land the big one, and even 'though I didn't have any traps on that side of the cove I had to go way over there to be nosy. As no one is allowed to fish in this large reservoir, and only few people do so illegally, less so in the last 5-10 years, there have to be some massive bass and pike in there. But the bluegill are probably stunted unless the pike are keeping the numbers down themselves. The lake is about four miles long and close to half mile wide in spots. And bluegill are some of the best tasting freshwater fish there is. Perch maybe tops, but I'd say they are better than walleye. I always fileted them, then fried with a light breading. |
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don't recall. something that was on sale at Cortland Line. the fiberglass separated into strands and folded right by the second to last guide. Quoted:
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The rod broke before your 4lb test line did? What kind of rod was it?
don't recall. something that was on sale at Cortland Line. the fiberglass separated into strands and folded right by the second to last guide. Cortland Line had a blow out sale not too long ago. They were moving locations or something. My friend bought a rod per day for a week I think. |