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Bought my new house 5 years ago that has a 3/4 acre pond. Spent a bunch of time cleaning up the pond, digging cattails and removing a bunch of channel cats. Started feeding fish chow, it was Ok, switched to Aquamax after reading a bunch on this forum and the bluegill have been doing well. My son visited yesterday and fished with a flyrod and caught bunch pushing around a pound and then caught this 11-1/4", 1.5lb biggie. The gills are doing pretty well in my Ohio pond.    Yes, we zeroed the scale for the basket before we weighed the fish:)
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Always great to see the fruits of your labors.
Congratulations!
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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Beautiful BG. It's a brute.
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It is a big female BG and there could be a few others larger that are males. Keep up the good efforts.
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Outstanding!! That is inspiring.
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"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.
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Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
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Nothing beats a well planned goal reached !!! Nice work.
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Lundy, that gives guys like me hope! Congratulations and great looking fish! Just out of curiosity, were any of those caught on a "Big Joshy Swimbait" 
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No, these were not caught on a Big Joshy Swimbait.
He fished with a flyrod yesterday with a top water popper
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This is one of the males (I think) that we caught March 2012 that weighed 1.2 lbs so maybe there are some larger males in the pond by now than the female he caught last weekend.  
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Nice fish. Are you saying one of them is a female? If so both are actually males.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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No the first fish in this thread, female?
The last pics, Male?
Is that right?
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No the first fish in this thread, female?
The last pics, Male?
Is that right? My bad I thought you were referring to the two pics on top of each other above.  Yes I would say the first fish in the thread is a female. I didn't go back to the beginning of the thread initially.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Again -- nice big bluegills. Where did you get the stockers???. Or were they in the pond when you bought it? They were from good brood stock. The bass numbers are correct for helping produce dandy BG. The first female weighing 1.5 lb and 11.25" has good relative weight of 115. Standard weight for 11.25" is 1.3 lb.
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Bill,
I guess I was just fortunate on the potential quality of the gills in the pond. My son did put in 30 gills from another pond early after we purchased this house that were 8-9" gills but we have no idea what impact those had or didn't have on the anything.
Once I was able to clean the pond up of all of the cattails, water meal, duckweed, algae, install aerators, removed 40 big channel cats and started feeding the gill size started increasing nicely.
The plan was always to see if we could grow some decent size gills. We have left the bass population high, there is a modest population of black crappie in the pond up to 15", 3 saugeye that are growing like crazy and fat and happy from feeding on something in the pond, I'm guessing small gills and crappie.
I had read a lot on this forum trying to learn as much as I could and thought about trying to get some really good gills to stock in my pond but never did.
I don't really know for sure what or why, but I have a bunch of nice gills in this pond that I enjoy watching and feeding.
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Lundy,
That's what it's all about and it appears you have learned well!
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Lundy, Is that your son? If it is, he makes that "gill" look smaller than it really is . One more thing....beautiful pond!!!
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ewest, thanks for the link to that thread..... And thank you Bill, Bruce & Cecil for the great info!
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Lundy, Is that your son? If it is, he makes that "gill" look smaller than it really is . One more thing....beautiful pond!!! Yes, that is my baby boy And he makes lots of thing look smaller than they are.
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