The fish I caught this morning did raise a question for me though. The bluegill are far smaller than I used to have and skinnier (not near as much meat on them). I used to have real fat bluegill. This summer was a bad drought and my water level is 3' low. Over the last few years I've added brush piles (or in some cases, entire 50' hickory tree's) every 30 feet around the entire lake. I also put in 4 stacks of pallets that are 12 pallets tall with netting around them for fatheads to reproduce in. There are more minnows in my lake then a person can even imagine. No matter where you walk in, there's hundreds of them in the weeds around shore. The bass and crappie that I catch are very fat and healthy. Why would my bluegill be so skrawny?
