My late Great Grandmother's Bluegill

She caught this back in the 50s. Won the Ohio state record for a few years.

She just passed on and gave this fish mount to my dad.

We just had it remounted... To clean the fins and color up alittle bit.

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This is the guy that redid it and afterwards
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WOW ! what a fish ! thanks for posting

thats a heck of a bulegill.

Beautiful, thanks for sharing, I know she was excited to catch it.

thats 1 heck of a gill:eek:

Great Blue Gill What was the weight ?

JSC
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Yowza!:eek: What a slab! Great job on the remount,too. Your grandmother musta been quite proud of that gill.:) Any idea what body of water it was caught? Thanks for sharing!

Dang, that thing is huge. I've always wondered how a fish with such a small mouth can get that big?

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Originally Posted by P-row

Yowza!:eek: What a slab! Great job on the remount,too. Your grandmother musta been quite proud of that gill.:) Any idea what body of water it was caught? Thanks for sharing!

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Yeah she caught that thing out of her pond in the back field. I tried and tried but never could get another one like that out of that farm pond. Pretty sure that someone came in and netted the pond clean....

She passed away about 2 monthes ago at 105 years old.

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Originally Posted by JSC

Great Blue Gill What was the weight ?

JSC
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Sorry I don't remember the weight, the newspaper clipping is on the back of the mount.