Pickwick Gills.

What do you do when you have had a slow summer fishing and you get on a pattern of bluegill but they are only at the 7-8 inch mark......you put up the 2# test...break out the Major Craft FineTail Banshee 6' 7" Area UL trout rod strung up with 1# test line and have a ball. Hit Pickwick today and found the Gills on a ledge. I had a Panfish jig head rigged with a Bison colored Trout Magnet and a size"BB" split shot..... had to keep it on the bottom or no fish. I would cast into 8 feet of water and very slowly retrieve to the edge of the ledge...which dropped to 27 feet.....then bam.....fish on every cast. They were all in the 7-8 inch range...very chunky hard fighting fish. I spent 5 hours spot locked in one location and boated around 150 Gills....and one very nice shell cracker....I did take about a 20 minute break for lunch and put the Bimini up for a little shade. It was a great day and I am going back tomorrow.....have a rod rigged up to drop shot the Trout Magnet in the 27 foot depth.....life is good!


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Good job. Very nice pics. Congrats

Sounds like fun. Deep water gills seem to elude me.

Very nice

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Man alives! That one is a toad! Great times right there for sure.

Those are some mighty fine gills. My wife loves bluegill fishing! Might have to try pickwick

7-8" gills ain't nothing to sneeze at. That's good sized gills in most lakes. I make weightless feather jig on a #10 dry fly hook that they kill on a dropshot. It's a fun way to fish deep gills. Nice pics, thanks for sharing them. I'm jelous.

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Those are some beauties. And some mighty fine eating for sure. Great job.