Bedding in central Indiana

[Team9nine]

The bluegill and redear have started nesting on my home lake here in central Indiana and I took a break from bass and crappie fishing to chase them today. Ended up catching nearly 100 fish today, most of them bluegills with a few redear thrown in, along with about 2 dozen crappie. Bluegill were running mostly 8"-9.5" but did get a few larger including the 11" redear in the pic. Seems like the redear were spawning in a little deeper water than the gills, and the redear were on more clay or sand/shell bottom where the bluegill seemed be be mostly sandy areas with some gravel mixed in.

Everything was caught on 1/22-oz. curlytail jigs today fished on 2.5# Toray fluorocarbon line and a 6'6" ML spinning rod - a total blast! Guessing they'll stick around for another week or so before moving out, so might have to do this again. Hoping to keep the gill fishing good in this lake, so released everything I caught today to do again another time.

-T9