Where would I go in North America to catch a Monster Bluegill or hybrid:confused:
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Where would I go in North America to catch a Monster Bluegill or hybrid:confused:
Lots of big ones here in Georgia, but any southern state would be a good option because of the long growing season.
Florida is awesome, I see alot of big ones from ice fishing lakes also! The big O and St. Johns in FLA.
Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee has the largest ones I've ever caught on a public lake.
a pond in vernon ALQuote:
Originally Posted by panfishing4fun
fish hatchery lol
Ken's fish hatchery in Alapaha, Ga. "home of the world record hybrid bream" They have a website...They have a pond full of their own hybrids...killer on a 10 foot crappie pole:D
Vernon, Al. ????? I'm pretty close. My business is located in Vernon.Quote:
Originally Posted by slab king
Which one???????
Reelfoot lake is awsome for bluegill.
idk i lve in caledonia msQuote:
Originally Posted by slab king
come up to upstate new york we can catch somme big ol bull gils up here
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Originally Posted by panfishing4fun
I would head for Weiss Lake or Logan Martin lake in Alabama. They have some awesome gills in the weeds.
You have a P.M.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherman_Wantabe
As much as I luv our Virginia monster Bull GILLS if I had to go anywhere in N.America for a trophy of a lifetime or a chance at a World Record it would be: FLORIDA (maybe OKEECHOBEE or other such Lakes....sorry for sp.) Target location would have to have extremely long growing season (preferably 12 mo's out of the year where all types of forage....bugs, insects, minnows, etc. are around in huge amounts All the Time!!!). Also would need to have a lot of uncharted water where many anglers just don't or can't go. I've seen some Pro Guided websites which post some incredible catches of Coppernose Bluegill (a species of Bluegill which will on average grow bigger and faster than the usual Northern Bluegill) out of Florida which large ones can routinely run 2lbs and over!!!!!! Hope this helps!!!! :) :) :)
Astor, FL has several fish camps with rental houses. We go every summer. Some days the catches are ridiculous. I found a bed of shells right outside some lilly pads and got on some shellcrackers. I filled a cooler in an hour. Kept six for a stringer mount that's at the taxidermist right now. Every cracker on the stringer - 3+ pounds.
SJ
Hey Slabjigger, I'd really like to see those slab crackers whenever you get'em back. Just post a pic on the forum---Those will definitely make you a really nice mount!!!! Good luck in catchin some more hawgs!!!! :) :) :)
Try summit lake just outside of Indy, also griffy lake in bloomington although they have some crazy rules in effect right now.
SANTEE COOPER LAKES; LAKE MARION (large lake 120,000 acres) and LAKE MOULTRIE (around 60,000 acres) These lakes and diversion canal have broken about every state record for all species of freshwater fish as well as world records. It is nothing to catch 2lb brim there and the shellcracker run in excess of 3lbs. If I had about 4 days to fish anywhere in the world... I'd go back to Santee.
Get a guide and just enjoy yourself. Most of the guides there use 24ft tritoons and specialize in flatheads, crappie, and striper. Don't be mistaken, they can put you where you want to be.
Trumpdrivers got it on this one, them things in their ponds are HUGE!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by trumpdriver
Any of the oxbows in Mississippi (lakes connected to or flooded by the MS River). They are swarming with monster bluegill, big Crappie, huge Bass and giant catfish - so you can catch 'em all on one trip and usually on one bait - a nice Crappie jig or minnow.
Tracker99
We caught some slab crappie at Chotard this weekend in 24 to 28 feet of water.
We fish Reelfoot every April for crappie, last spring got blown off the lake and hardly got to fish. Went back the first week of June once my son was out of school. We fished the trees along the bank on the south end with noodle rods. Caught the biggest bluegill I have ever seen for 4 days. Caught fish all day long every day. Plus there was hardly any boat traffic, pretty much had the place to ourselves. I will be going back now twice a year.