Pond Bluegill

[dixieangler]

I got a few pond bluegill last Sunday evening over at a nearby residential community fishing from the bank with the 5wt. and a floating line. Most were only average size. I was just getting ready to take a photo of the first bluegill I caught on a #8 Aberdeen yellow Nymphomie Pusher foam fly Dremel bug but the gill got off the hook before I could take the photo. I did get a photo of the last gill I caught toward dark. An average size of about 7 or 8 inches I caught on a #10 Improved Black Gnat wet fly. The little rascal took the fly deep enough I had to use the foreceps (hemostat).

[flycaster]

That is my kind of fishing.http://www.crappie.com/gr8vb3/images/smilies/smile.gif
Nothing like having a fly rod to catch a mess of bream.

flycaster

[shadow]

but that looks to me more like a coppernose than a bluegill.
I know it is a hybird off of a bluegill and they do get pretty good size. I had a buddy that had them stocked in a pond I use to fish.

Either way, NICE FISH!:D

[dixieangler]

but that looks to me more like a coppernose than a bluegill.

Good eyes, Dwyane :D. Yep, copperheaded variety but a small young one. I've caught some up to about 11 or 12 inches on other waters. There are some different kinds of bluegill in that pond .

[zappaf19]

My sis in law has a pond and the gills that come out of there are killers year round. bigger than I catch on the lake. Very few people fish in her pond so I guess they have time to grow.
Bill

[dixieangler]

The wind was really bad this evening on the pond. Line tangles galore and I said some things I shouldn't have when I got frustrated. I was going to go over to the little lake to hook into some small LMB but there was a wedding going on as it is a popular place for weddings with the gazebo on the little island with the footbridge.

The pond


The pond


#10 Improved McGinty Copperheaded 8 inch Bluegill (only fish I caught this evening)

[Bridges]

That is a beautiful pond, and a nice perch I might add!

[chaunc]

That is a beautiful pond, and a nice perch I might add!

Perch? Thats not a perch. This is a perch.:D

[dixieangler]

Since we don't have "real perch" like that in most parts of the south, chaunc, I think its just slang . Its a southern thing but I know what bridges meant. If I called them "smackers" or "fry hards", you might not know what I'm talking about either :D.

[chaunc]

Sure wouldn't. Guess i'm just a dam yankee.:D