Thanks Chad for posting about your experience. I sympathize for your loss of the larger bluegill. I know exactly how that feels as it has also happened to me. Incidents like this just go to show how challenging and unpredictable growing fish can be. On the bright side, small bluegill have tremendous tolerance of low oxygen concentrations and if you do lose large bluegill during a depletion then you can have recruits taking their place almost during the same season. This is one reason that I feel you need to maintain your program, just learn from the mistakes and adjust your management plan accordingly. It's nice, IMO, to have "hobbyists" out there taking risks and pushing limits.
