3 pound Arizona MONSTER bluegills!

[mr_jman]

Yes, they were caught out of a private pond in Arizona but they are still impressive to look at.

[RawHog]

holy slabs

[mrklean]

They look like the thing in alien

[JPmunson]

MAN ARE THEY UGLY!!!!

[Rick G]

I have a buddie that looks like the one on the left

[bbfenatic]

Grain fed or what are they eating? Private - I'd pay good money to be able to come down and fish those - any chance?

[Getanet]

Could you imagine getting into a school of those things when ice fishing? Man would that be fun.

[Scott M]

The Pond Boss himself is pictured, Bruce Condello.

To quote a friend of mine, a fisheries management Ph.D. candidate that is working on private ponds, "you can do anything with fish and wildlife when you have private lands and the money to move mountains!"

[OnAFly]

Nice pets.

[leech~~]

MAN ARE THEY UGLY!!!!

Plus 2. Those poor obese things need a health care plan! How come we like our fish and animals big, but not our women!

[pinkfloyd4ever]

Wow!

[fisherman-andy]

Hmmm? What other monsters are lurking in that private pond?

[nofishfisherman]

Private ponds can be a lot of fun. Caught a several of these from a private pond in Wisconsin. Most went right around 12 inches.

The pond isn't managed to specifically grow large fish. It was stocked years ago and left alone for the fish to do what fish do.

Also caught several of these from the same pond 1-2 acre pond.

[JPmunson]

Big women need lovin too!

I find all my huge bass in little 1 acre farm ponds where there are thousands of little bluegills(no one keeps them) and the bass are to be let go each time and hardle anybody knows about it. All these bass do is eat little bluegills and get huge!! I would find schools of bass where the smallest I would find is 6.5 pounds and I would catch them all the way up to almost 10 lbs. and many in the middle around 8. They would travel in groups and chase bluegills in the weeds and I could watch them just cruise around. I wish I could find that pond again.

[sunniewally]

imagine what a fight with a 3wt 9 ft fly rod!!! whoaaaa!!

[Gordie]

Holy Moly Rocky

Thouse are some BULL gills and I bet when jim uran see those he plans a trip to Arizona. Again WOW!!!

[blackdog1101]

imagine what a fight with a 3wt 9 ft fly rod!!! whoaaaa!!

That's what I'm thinking. Those would be incredible on a fly rod.

[TruthWalleyes]

Man o Man those are two HUGE panfish!!

[The Grebe]

Yikes! Someone should bring some of those dinner plates up here and breed em with our resident gills. If not the live gills then the spawn. Man, I can't imagine what one of those things on an ice rod would feel like?