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Early season Gill

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My Bro, Kevin Fideldy, with a great Gill

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My buddy, Dusty Burton, with a Big Gill

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My best Beauty of the Summer. She was an ole wise 10.25"

Here is some Grand Rapids Great Gills. Caught in the local area waters. Mostly on the unbeatable Wiggly Leech but a few on Plastics. All fish were 10+" Corey eat your heart out! cool.gif

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Here's my daughter Amanda with a couple dandy gills from last night. The one on the left is 9.75" that my wife caught and the one on the right is a 9.50" that Amanda caught. We probably caught 30-40 gills and kept 10 for a meal. Slip bobber and small/med leech over the tops of weeds, in about 10-12' of water.

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The crappies were still holding in the same spot as earlier this week ,and today I was able to hook into a few larger fish. All were caught on a glow pink #6 Ratso under a Thill Stealth float.

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Bailey displays a nice Crappie caught on a Chart/Shad Power Minnow.

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Brooke with a nice 9.5" Bluegill on a Purple/Green Power Tube.

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Cole with a 9.75" Bluegill. He used the Trout Power Worm in natural color.

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Bailey with a 9.5" Bluegill caught on a Chart/Shad Power Tube.

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Me and a good Crappie.

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Check out the "Blue Gill" on this fish.

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Another nice Gill.

Good fishing,

Corey Bechtold

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was out Saturday evening on my favorite "gill" lake...conditions were perfect!...mirror smooth water...fish were surfacing near the lilly pads...here's an example of the weekends outing...my bait of choice was a 2" floating rapala...cast it near the pads...wait 30 seconds or so for the rings to disappear...wiggle the rapala just a "tat"...then they'd "smack" it grin.gif.....all catch and release of course! shocked.gif

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Thanks Corey!...actually,out of say a dozen of these gills' that I boated...only one gave me a little more trouble with both hooks....just a pair of hospital hemostats did the job quite efficiently and quickly for removal and didn't hurt any of the fish...usually I found only one of the hooks was hanging in the lip and a good percentage was the back hook or tail hook of the rapala...another thing I noticed is that most of the gills' were larger and figured the smaller one's knew enough not to even try to hit the rapala... out of their league I guess grin.gif...I must also comment on the color variance on your pics of your gills versus the ones I was catching...the ones in your pics are much lighter in coloration,the ones in the lake I frequent tend to be much darker and even the shape seems to differ somewhat...but a a gill is a gill!...they all fight the same! grin.gif

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