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I have yet to see any indication that my BG have spawned. I have noticed more than one shiner spawn in thew pond, but thats it. I have seen some new fry this week only a 1/2" long, but I cannot tell what they are yet. They look like more shiners

I have not had any luck trying to catch anything in my minnow trap either, only a 2.5" perch so far. What are you other northern guys experiencing this year?


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I've been thinking about putting my trap in. I'll post when I find out




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Mine spawned about first/second week of June. I need to get a trap like Rryan, probably be a lot easier.




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I put some males and females into a production pond just after they started spawning in the pond I took them from three weeks ago. I finally saw a male on a bed in the deepest water about 4 days ago. Still no bluegill fry although I have plenty of fathead fingerlings which I must have pumped in when I filled this pond.

Perhaps the cold spring followed by a quick warm up has them screwed up in some of our ponds up north?


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Bluegills seemed to be a couple of weeks late onto the nest here -- probably mid-June rather than early. Strange, too, as the full moon was early June.

We caught our first bluegill larvae in our north-central Nebraska study lake this past Wednesday, and they were NEWLY hatched (tiny).


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We have quite a few BG fry about 1/2 inch long. I think our main spawn is about over, at least looking at the beds along the shore.


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I put my trap in Saturday evening and pulled it yesterday evening. I had about twenty BG that were barely 1". I also had about five 2.5" bluegill, probably from a late spawn last year. In past years I would have had that many in 45 minutes so either the spawn wasn't as successful as previous years or it's time to cull some predators.




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mine just hatched. they look like they are about half an inch.



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The BG hatch here is later than normal too. I think we had a small hatch 3 weeks ago but the bulk of them seem to have spawned recently. I base this on the less than gravid conditions of all of the females I caught yesterday.

We have gazillions of LMB in the 1-1/4" to 1-1/2" ranges everywhere, in the last 22 years I have never seen a LMB hatch this large at our pond.



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Shorty,

we had a large LMB hatch this year too and they are in the same size ranges as yours. They are everywhere. I hope the bigger LMB thin them out otherwise I'm on track for a LMB crowded pond again.

This is the largest LMB spawn I have ever seen in my pond also.



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What kind of traps and bait are you guys using to catch these dinky BG? I am having very little luck catching minnows.


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