Thread: 5/20 Bluegill Beds

Good friend and myself smoked them yesterday. Threw back several 8-9 inch fish, and kept 39 for the grease. All came from 4 different beds in 12-17 FOW.

One thing I thought was interesting- You could run the bank and catch smaller fish almost every cast (2-4 inches), but almost every single fish that came from one of these deep beds was big enough to filet. Scanned for likely 1-2 hrs and only came across 4 beds.

another interesting note- not one shell cracker bed. Got lucky I guess and picked 2 decent ones off the edges of these bluegill beds, but scanned and fished for hours hunting some big shellcrackers in their typical spawning locations with no luck.