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.

A fine mess of great eating

That’s a good trip. Good job and thanks for sharing.

Nice looking catches !

Congratulations and thanks for sharing!

Great day for sure !
i never have looked for them that deep !
that would be interesting to find em deep like that.
did catch some shell cracker in 6-8 fow last week.

When beds are deep the bluegill are large. The only place I’ve run upon beds around here that deep is at Fall Creek Falls.

Regards


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Some real nice fish there, especially that first one on the board.
Bob

Nice looking fish!

Good catches, deeper beds here usually have the better fish as well.


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