best from today

I guided a guy from Lenoir City in east Tennessee today. Here are pictures of the best fish:

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Those are nice!

Huge gills for sure.

Boy Howdey!!

Thanks, guys!

Those are some monsters

Monster gill, is that lake known for those big gills?

Josh, it's not a lake but a private pond, all of one acre in size. I have a pond and lake management company, one of the services of which is a trophy bluegill guide service; I guide on a handful of ponds in middle Tennessee. The ponds are mostly ones that I have intensively managed for trophy bluegill for the past six years. All of the fish in the photos above came from the same one-acre pond. So far this year it has produced roughly forty bluegill over a pound, about twenty over 20 ounces, and four over 24 ounces. The second-biggest fish was caught by my last guide party on May 6 and weighed 30.6 ounces.

Beautiful, I love small pond fishing. I plan to manage for trophy gills as well

Yikes! I thought my one pounder last year was impressive, now I have a new goal!