I'll take eyes any day I can get 'em. However, where I'm at, it's at least a 45 minute drive for that, and it's seasonal at best.

However, I can walk to my own pond or drive 10-15 mins any direction and find decent gills. I can spend an hour or so by myself or with a buddy tracking down BIG gills, or take a little kid and catch whatever's biting. (Can't wait til my own 6 month old Grandson can fish!)

I can eat what I catch, or use them for bait for big cats, or garden fertilizer if they're tiny. They just work for me in so many ways.

I admit, at times they can be a pest if they're plentiful but small. However, I've never tired of catching the dang things... \:D

In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. My wife figures I'm due to die any day now...