I caught 45 bluegill and 26 redears today on a Interstate 80 lake in western Nebraska. I was fishing in a float tube. The best and most efficient way to catch bluegill was to throw my offering right to the shoreline and twitch slowly. ALL of the redears were located beyond the bluegill beds and would bite a slow moving bait. The average depth where bluegill were caught was about two feet. The average depth of the redears caught was closer to 5 feet.

Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.