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Post by mike3132 on May 25, 2009 14:40:23 GMT -5
The bluegills are spawning right now in my pond. I caught 50 Friday and Saturday and most were about 8", nice eating size. Tomorrow I'm going to have a fish fry with some hush puppies and fried tators! Yummm...... can you feel the love? Mike
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Post by kevin k on May 25, 2009 15:15:59 GMT -5
them blue gills are great fun and eating where are you at your water temp must be warmer then here yours must be close to 60 cant wait for them up here on the beds. kevin
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Post by mike3132 on May 25, 2009 23:49:21 GMT -5
kevin,
N.E. Indiana.
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Post by kevin k on May 26, 2009 12:29:58 GMT -5
well than i better go check the gill spots out thanks for the heads up ive been busy with the trout thing and redoing the house thanks mike they have to be close here to. kevin
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Post by ET on May 26, 2009 22:06:01 GMT -5
The bluegills are spawning right now in my pond. I caught 50 Friday and Saturday and most were about 8", nice eating size. Tomorrow I'm going to have a fish fry with some hush puppies and fried tators! Yummm...... can you feel the love? Mike Oh Yeah Frying and calorie dining. ;D But you only live once to enjoy even if someone else keeps nagging about ones weight. By the way what white wine is your choice with this kind of lovin? Ed
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Post by mike3132 on May 26, 2009 22:38:29 GMT -5
Ed, ate the fish tonight for supper but no wine, just a glass of cold milk....lol Mike
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Post by KerryB on May 28, 2009 21:58:10 GMT -5
You guys are starvin me to death!!!! ;D
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Post by orion on Jun 4, 2009 10:37:17 GMT -5
You gotta love those little dudes. When I was young we used to go out to a lake my uncle lived on and catch blue gills. We would use worms and crickets on some big old long cane poles. We thought cane poles were for wimps until we were taught the proper technique etc. We cleaned house with those things, they were probably about 12 or 14 feet long. It was always a bonus when you would get a large mouth on one. We would catach a mess of slabs and then we would go back in the swamp and get a bunch of giant bull frogs with spears or with a regular fish pole with a fly on it. My aunt would fry up the slabs and frogs in a beer batter and oh my god that was good.
I am going to have to find a good blue gill lake and a swamp ,your making me hungry to.
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Post by KerryB on Jun 14, 2009 9:52:47 GMT -5
Been a long time since i had good ol frog legs. Never thought of catching them on a fly using a rod and reel! Now that's a good idea............
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Post by boarhog on Jun 30, 2009 11:19:11 GMT -5
You guys have made me think about an old and dear friend that has passed on to the Bluegill Bed in the Sky. We used to fish an old river lake in SE Arkansas called Lake Belcoe. It was a private lake where we had to put 2 dollars into an old mailbox when we launched our boat.
That lake was full of huge dinner plate sized Bluegills and Redears, and more Cotton Mouth snakes than I've ever seen anywhere. There was at least 1 snake draped over every willow limb and several fighting with the turtles for space on every log and stickup. Phil and I had several wonderful fishing trips there, but always took a broomstick with a wire hook on it to throw snakes out of the boat when they dropped off a limb.
Somewhere I have pictures of a string of 80 Redear and Bluegill that weighed 82 lbs. We ran out of crickets and redworms on one trip, and Phil used a long jigpole to snag wasp nests out of trees. Those wasp grubs were better bait anyway. I can still remember that line "singing" through the water when we'd hook one of those pound+ Bream! That was living!!
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Post by KerryB on Jul 5, 2009 18:49:10 GMT -5
boarhog, That story was told so well i could almost see it like a photo! Thanks..........
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Post by boarhog on Jul 5, 2009 22:03:00 GMT -5
KerryB, I consider that a real compliment! Thanks Boarhog
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Post by chuck41 on Jul 11, 2009 10:02:57 GMT -5
Brought back memories here as well. We too used to use the cane poles and load up on bream. In Louisiana in the 50s you didn't even need a license unless you had a reel so that was further encouragement. Bream were so numerous in the lakes around Monroe, La that you always got a mess of fish, sometimes bigger ones and sometimes not so much. However, you were virtually assured of plenty fish for supper at most of the lakes around there.
Around Hot Springs, AR today the nearby lakes are very deep and bream are not nearly so prolific. Shame because there is nothing more fun than taking a kid to catch a whole bunch of them. I wish I could take my grandkids to enjoy some of that kind of fun that I enjoyed at their age.
Boarhog, Do you ever fish down around at Lake Village in Lake Chicot? I just wondered how it was for "gills".
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Post by boarhog on Jul 11, 2009 23:31:54 GMT -5
Chuck, I know what you mean about the lakes around HS. We had our camper parked at Kozy Acres Landing in Mountain Pine for a few years. That is on the river just below Blakely Dam and about a mile above Hamilton. Now it is on Lake DeGray in the Shouse Ford area. I can't get used to fishing 25' deep for Bream. In fact, we haven't been over there enough to know how to fish it. I hope to learn how to catch a few Walleye someday.
I have never fished Lake Chicot, but have a retired mailman friend that used to go camping there some. Since they cleared up the muddy end, fishing is supposed to be better. Lots of Cypress along the sides, and a nice camping area i think its a State Park. Anyway, they had pretty good Crappie and 'Gill luck. We do band inst repair for Greenville, MS schools. I always think about fishing Chicot when I pass by it.
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