Thread: best from today

Originally Posted by tcounty

Reelfoot?

No, it's from a private pond that tnpondmanager owns and operates for trophy bluegill.

Those are some nice gills

Thanks, all! These two fish actually came from two different ponds on the same property. There's a total of nine ponds on the property though four of them are small, roughly 1/4 acre each, and are anoxic such that I don't presently do anything with them. There are three ponds that are about an acre, one that's probably close to two acres, and a half-acre one that I manage. Two have unbelievable 'gill fishing, two more should next year. I also guide on a three-acre pond on a separate property just over the hill from this one, and a two-acre pond about ten miles from these.

Nice gills that first one is Awesome

Nice fish

Those are some good size breams.

Thanks for the comments, guys!

Deathb4disco, I just now noticed a mistake I made - I don't own the ponds, just have an agreement with the landowner that allows me to guide on them in return for the dough I have put into turning them around. I somehow didn't notice until now that part of your sentence. I wish I owned them, for sure.

When I started working with these ponds in 2009, the bluegill averaged 3" in one of the ponds the above fish came from, and 2" in the other. Both ponds were morbidly overpopulated with bluegill and had no predators, bass or otherwise, left.

Originally Posted by tnpondmanager

Deathb4disco, I just now noticed a mistake I made - I don't own the ponds, just have an agreement with the landowner that allows me to guide on them in return for the dough I have put into turning them around. I somehow didn't notice until now that part of your sentence. I wish I owned them, for sure.

My bad. I thought you owned them.