Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Lots of bluegills

The biggest problem with imposing slot limits on Bluegills is getting others to comply...it's awful hard to throw back a whopper Bluegill.

My understanding of this issue is that actual size is not important - rather relative size is what matters. If you have complete control over your fishery and you wanted to create or maintain the effect of large parental males suppressing sexual maturation of smaller males, I would consider catch & release only on the largest 25-50% of the male population.