Nothin' but 8-9 inchers!!

But they were bluegill, so it was :Fire!

Went out to Guy B. Park with my son. Hit the water just before sun up and the swirls at the top of the water were too many to count as we went stealth mode around that tiny lake.

Two crappie, but I couldn't get mine in the boat. Nick got his in, tho.

Heck, even the LMB were 8-9"!! Lol!

By 7:30a, it was about over, but we stayed out there another 3 hours just to make sure. We caught a few in there, but they got smaller and fewer. Got to be too hot and too boring to stick around so we went home.

No pics, tho. You can b!+(# about it below if you want! (I'm doing good just to post a report!!) :Rofl

Heck, I'm doing good just to catch a fish!!!

Oh...speaking of which...Nick outfished me by a LOT.

Sounds enjoyable. Good job

Fantastic!

How do gills clean? Never did it before.

What did you catch them on? Topwater?

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How do gills clean? Never did it before.

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Just like crappie. Brim (bream?) family.
Up north they eat the crap out of “sunnies”. 3” is a whopper, not sure how they clean em that small.

That sounds like a heck of a morning! Good job


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Glad your out and after them.

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3” is a whopper, not sure how they clean em that small.

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My guess is gut and scale them. I think that's how a lot like them anyway? I've never done it with crappie well since I was a kid so don't really remember. Once I learned to fillet there was no turning back.

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How do gills clean? Never did it before.

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The way I was taught was to use a fillet knife down along the back spine until you hit the ribs and cut up over the top of them, staying close to the rib cage. More like surgery. And this was before electric knives existed.

I think that makes sense if you're cleaning small ones, cuz you need as much meat off them as you can get! But anymore, I just clean 'em like I do crappie. Fast n' easy. Probably wastes more, but....whatev's.

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What did you catch them on? Topwater?

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I was kicking myself for not bringing some kinda topwater poppers or something, but I guess I never imagined that would be the pattern?

Tried worms under a bobber but that was so slow. Resorted to pulling shallow running cranks. Much more action much faster and covered more water.

sounds like a great day, we always filet the big ones, the small perch like 6 to 8 in we just gutted, chopped off head and fried, scales and all, peal the skin off wala meat to eat sweet treat makes for dancing feet.