Thread: Fish of a thousand casts…

Man I miss that type of fishing. I just dont get a chance to do it anymore. I loved casting those little cranks down a shoreline and just catching whatever bit

Originally Posted by Kevin22

Man I miss that type of fishing. I just dont get a chance to do it anymore. I loved casting those little cranks down a shoreline and just catching whatever bit

Kevin22, why is that you don’t mine me asking? I saw your YouTube video seem you got all the ideal waters at your disposal.


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Originally Posted by Fishfishwish

I'd take those any day!

Fishfishwish, I totally agree. A game warden told me one time they stock them regularly to keep channel cats and what few largemouth they have in there happy and says the rest rely on self sustaining efforts by the sunfish. I guess they do grow to a good size if given the opportunity ( not be eaten)…Lol.


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Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Very nice. In the waters I currently fish there are not many. I wish I could get into them.

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Be careful what you wish for, Alphahawk…Lol. Reading various fish forum turned up lots of anglers hating these green sunfish for being pesky, aggressive, stunt, and invasive. That last one leave me dumbfounded. I always thought they are part of THE sunfish families, including largemouth and crappies that they be more accepted as the norm. At the places I fish sometimes I catch more bluegills than these showing they are anything but invasive. Cheers!


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Originally Posted by LVSpinfisher1

Kevin22, why is that you don’t mine me asking? I saw your YouTube video seem you got all the ideal waters at your disposal.


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Unfortunately that was a fishing trip about 550 miles from home, I can only dream of having an area like that to fish all year long! Where I typically fish, the Mississippi River, theres only a few weeks each year when the conditions are correct for shallow fishing and they usually collide with something else I am doing (walleye fishing in the spring and hunting in fall mostly). That's why I have the last of my little cranks for sale in the classifieds, just dont get a chance to use them.

Originally Posted by LVSpinfisher1

Be careful what you wish for, Alphahawk…Lol. Reading various fish forum turned up lots of anglers hating these green sunfish for being pesky, aggressive, stunt, and invasive. That last one leave me dumbfounded. I always thought they are part of THE sunfish families, including largemouth and crappies that they be more accepted as the norm. At the places I fish sometimes I catch more bluegills than these showing they are anything but invasive. Cheers!


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They are a borderline invasive species where I am in Iowa. In fact, they are considered a baitfish and dont count towards limits. They get into ponds and completely ruin them, we just had this happen recently to one of my buddy's best crappie ponds. We would go and put $5 down on the first 16" crappie each trip, it was that kind of pond. Green sunfish got in there (nobody knows how, probably birds) and it went from a great crappie pond to 10,000 green sunfish and 4" crappies within a few years. They have big mouths and feed on fry mostly, so they are a predator of a sunfish... If there's not a large population of bass and catfish to eat them, they will slowly take over. They will also hybridize with bluegills (I caught one in that video I posted) and these hybrids are almost sterile, so they can ruin a bluegill population by hybridizing as well.

They are really fun to catch though, like someone else said you can toss anything that moves down a rock/riprap bank and catch them here. I've caught big ones while bass fishing on crankbaits before, 10" or so. They turn almost jet black when they get big which is kind of cool.

Kevin22, sorry to hear your fishing water so far away, brother! I felt same when moved out here from California, away from so many bass lakes and not to mention surf, jetties, and piers are now 4 hours away. About the green sunnies, glad the game wardens kept them in check with channel cats and some bass so bluegills population is still in balance.


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About 06 or so, I decided to throw a crank at a shoreline for some small to medium LMB that I’d seen feeding there a week or so before. A small chartreuse with white belly mid depth crank was my choice and I’m sure the bass would have loved it, if the crappie had left it alone. I learned then to be happy with what you get. The greenies are sure enough pretty and I’d like to play with them sometime but not sure where they live in relation to me. I like your snap beans and wouldn’t mind trying them but I’m one of those guys who that can’t get away from what he knows works where I am. The painting was well done..