Thread: Bluegill Food !!

In the Ozarks and Smokies when I was a kid they called neon-face a rockbass.

In the waters where I caught them- big pools in streams- they hung out around shoreline boulders & rocks, or rocky ledges (like smallmouth). they fought much harder than bluegill pound for pound, and they have more meat on them for their length than gills. Plus, they just looked really cool. It was kind've a disappointment when I caught a trout instead.

In the streams/ small stream fed lakes I caught them both by suspending crawdad pieces or worms just over or just in the structure, or, even better, retrieving a tiny spinner just over likely looking holes and crevices.

Basically, just think a disco-dressed smallmouth which is one step down the foodchain- some ways it acts like a food-item, some ways it acts like a lot bigger predator.

what a catch,nice fish