As stated here on the panfish forum,

the river bream were in fact on beds , could clearly see them perch from my up high perch .
walked down there and ....
put on a tiny handtie and drug it across said beds and as you might have guessed ....
KABOOM was my extralite rod bend .....:Rofl
pretty tricky to cast and drag it thru such shallow water with lots of debris on the bottom , but someone gots to do it right ? :dono
longear and bluegill were actually up on the actual beds and few tiny greens in the outskirt areas got in on the action as well .
"might" have been that big ole moon .....maybe ? :dono
such was my lunch break ....:cheers2

Beautiful fish!!!!

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Beautiful fish!!!!

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that one male gill was really dark , like wow dark , interesting for sure :highfive

Beautiful colors on those fish! Thanks for sharing

Those river fish are pretty !

Great way to spend a lunch break, very nice colors on those.

Nice mix of colors !

Love the color on those!!

Some pretty colors on those

Really nice looking gills right there.I think one of them was about as wide as it was long!
Bob

Like everyone else, I’m liking the colors. Looks like a fun time. Tacos?

Wish we could get the longears stocked in this part of the country, Ketchn. They sure are pretty. Though i'll doubt they can survive or even thrive in these extreme desert environment. Nice photos as always!

Nice report good job

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Wish we could get the longears stocked in this part of the country, Ketchn. They sure are pretty. Though i'll doubt they can survive or even thrive in these extreme desert environment. Nice photos as always!

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never heard of or seen them stocked anywhere , but they can get pretty fair size in some spots and there is NOT a tougher sunfish out there , they can handle desert heat for sure , they are the hardiest of the sunfish species and we used to argue quite often who got to use the last one in the livewell when we hit the stripers , they would often come up on the line above the striper when we landed it still alive and wanting to go back down for a second try .....:Rofl

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Like everyone else, I’m liking the colors. Looks like a fun time. Tacos?

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not in downtown ft worth , the river is off limits for consumption according to the fisheries folks , it has warnings about it and from what I hear from the tpw folks the local yard runoff and street runoff has the fish in the river full of a zillion different chemicals .
he once told me that they had so many things in them it was almost impossible to list all of them as chemicals of concern.....:banghead