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Failure at Growing Giant Bluegills

#558310 05/12/23 07:18 PM

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Failure at Growing Giant Bluegills

About 20 Inches long, weighed 5 lbs 15 oz. Caught on 1" worth of nightcrawler on a 1/32 oz jighead (a la Bruce Condello) on my light weight spinning rig - with 4 pound test line. It was a fun fight!

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Re: Failure at Growing Giant Bluegills Theo Gallus #558424 05/15/23 09:13 PM
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 4,916 Likes: 1004 Central Kansas F FishinRod Lunker
FishinRod Lunker F Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 4,916 Likes: 1004 Central Kansas	Just imagine what you would have caught with 2" of nightcrawler! (Don't know if the 4# test would have handled that one though.)

Re: Failure at Growing Giant Bluegills Theo Gallus #558455 05/16/23 06:11 PM
Joined: May 2014 Posts: 3,869 Likes: 303 East Texas, USA A anthropic
anthropic A Joined: May 2014 Posts: 3,869 Likes: 303 East Texas, USA	I love 1/32oz jigheads, though usually I rig with a 4 inch plastic worm. Catches big BG, all different sizes of LMB, and the occasional HSB. If you're patient, lucky, and backreel rather than the drag, it is possible to catch very large LMB on 4 lb test. 7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160

Re: Failure at Growing Giant Bluegills Theo Gallus #558474 05/17/23 10:46 AM
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 22,033 Likes: 483 Miss. E ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker
ewest Moderator Hall of Fame 2014 Lunker E Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 22,033 Likes: 483 Miss.	Nice fish T ! Removed and consumed I assume.

Re: Failure at Growing Giant Bluegills ewest #558486 05/17/23 06:32 PM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 14,676 Likes: 509 40 N, 82 1/2 W Theo Gallus Moderator Lunker
Theo Gallus Moderator Lunker Joined: May 2004 Posts: 14,676 Likes: 509 40 N, 82 1/2 W	Originally Posted by ewest Nice fish T ! Removed and consumed I assume. No, (she) went back in. My LMB population has been rather low (hence that fat catch; there's a ton of small to 9" BG in the pond), and I want as much spawning as possible. I added 100 fingerlings last year (after a fishkill) and have 25 juveniles ordered for delivery sometime soon. "Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
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