Has anyone ever caught or fished for Bluegill on Truman or Smithville? With the excellent populations of gamefish in both lakes, was wondering if the Bluegills grew to any size and if you have caught any?
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Has anyone ever caught or fished for Bluegill on Truman or Smithville? With the excellent populations of gamefish in both lakes, was wondering if the Bluegills grew to any size and if you have caught any?
I have fished for gills to bait trotlines with on Truman but never had great success and have never caught any big ones. Springfork Lake just south of Sedalia holds an excellent population of big gills and redears.
Never caught any big gills on Truman either, best place for them are farm ponds and strip pits. My Uncle has hybrid blue gill in his pit, they are some giant ones in there and a blast to catch.
i've fished for them at smithville in the summer, along rocks with crickets never caught one biggger than 8''.caught a few at jacomo at 10''and some giant redears.
We caught a bunch of gills over on the pomme arm out of osage bluffs last summer, along the rocky bluffs in areas where the bluffs flattenened out in spots right next to the banks, in the first cove on the left as you turn up the pomme. We were bored one afternoon and hadn't caught hardly anything for a while so we went over there, my son cuaght them an almost every cast in some spots. Not big at all, but a bunch of them.
Good question Jack, don't hear anything about em on Truman. Stockton and Table Rock have good ones.
Fished truman for 22 years never caught a bluegill over 6 inches...jackb,i talked to jack he said he never ordered them,
Attachment 53609Attachment 53610Here is a big redear I caught on Springfork. It's not the largest one I've caught there. I've caught a couple over 11". I have also caught some very nice gills there. Other photo is a limit of crappie (30) and a limit of gills (20). I'll be going back this Spring. It's a blast!
You might try bluegill.com
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You should find a lot of good information there Jack.
I heard they were having a Bluegill camp and some kind of Northland get together also.
Shhhh don’t tell him it doesn’t exist I’m just trying to get rid of him!:D
Now you ARE going off your bar stool!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
I have caught a few while fishing for crappie at Smithville . I like the smaller lakes in the area for bigger gills though .
OTD and I caught some small gills on tebo creek last spring. As jed clampett would say when lookin at Jethro: "Pittteefullllll, Just pitttttefull!" If you want big gills Jack Come up to the Mississippi River in Wisconsin. We drop shot in 10 to 20 feet of water for big gills using a small piece of crawler. The big ones like the hanging on the edge of heavy current.
Love the crappie fishin in truman however. The friends we made there even better.
Smithville bluegills are plentiful, but usually top out at about 7.5 inches. If you want to catch some big bluegill go to Tobacco Hills Lake. It's located on the Guy B. Park Conservation Area north of Platte city on HWY 371. I manage it strictly for big gills and they have to be 8 inches to keep and you can only keep 10 per day. Big redear (over 10 inches) are pretty common in Watkin's Mill State Park Lake.