Bluegill Bonanza...

[Jim Hudson]

Well today found myself and other FM user Tom (aka Cheffrey) on a local inland water in search of some bull gills...

Had quite the time with Tom, where we got into some pretty good fishing.... with size of fish too boot.. At times each of our flashers would show marks from the bottom to nearly 10 feet off bottom... Amongst all these marks, were some of the biggest, fattest, and prettiest BlueGills I have ever had the chance to lay my hands on... Not just one or two of these 10 inch plus fish, but quite a few.... Today was probably one of the best days I have had on the ice for big blues... And hopefully not the last..

Majority of my fish came on a white size 10 Arnolds Fairy Jig and a size 10 Techni Glo Red Fat Boy. Meat was needed for the most part, where waxies and or spikes did the trick... The bite lasted for a good while, but then screamed to a halt, where we had to coax the remaining fish to bite... But during this downtime is when I caught my largest fish of the day... This fished taped out at 10.75... Quite the fish... We also put a 10.5 through the hole for the biggest fish of the day...

Here are a few pictures from today...

[Corey Bechtold]

Nice job Jim. Maybe one of those pictures will make it on the cover of Outdoors Weekly! Congratulations!

Later,

Corey Bechtold

[hanson]

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Maybe one of those pictures will make it on the cover of Outdoors Weekly!

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Wait a minute... I think there already is one!

Awesome job you guys!

[harvey lee]

Very nice Gills. Makes me want to go looking for some if we only had a little better ice.

[Northlander]

They must have been on FIRE if Cheffrey can catch them.

Good job guys those are some piglets.

[Tom Linderholm]

Steven! What kinda slander is that? Must just be pure jealousy! Just goes to show every dog has his day!

A big thanks to Jim Hudson, had a great day, with great fish and great company.