I forgot to measure it.

One of or the biggest gill I have ever caught.

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When they get those big shoulders, it’s big!

that is huge!!!

Wow-nice dark one bet the colors were great in person.

The is a perty fish!

We always called em humpbacks, big fella for sure, nice catch

I appreciate the non holding out away from your body and hide all fingers for scale pic, truly, gives good reference for how big it really is unlike every other fish pic u see nowadays which they all look the same.

Maybe he has baby hands

JEREMY wrote:

Maybe he has baby hands

Negative.

That’s a bull!

‘zuki let’s hear the story-bait, shallow deep? Post spawn?

3 feet of water under a willow tree branch off my dock. 1/3 nightcrawler on a 1/16 ounce jig. I forget the color. Maybe orange. I get action like that sporadically from this point on from my place. I’ve gotten a lot of nice fish off the dock over the years but usually the big gills are colorful and not dark like these. I let everything go on the dock. Here’s one I caught a few minutes before. Same dark pattern but a little more color and slightly smaller. I also got a few normally colored keeper sized but these two were bigger than I have seen there.
Ill be up there all next week and hope to find some big perch out on the lake.

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They like hanging out under those willow branches, good luck with the perch.

Bull Gill for sure.

thats a dandy!!!!! congrats!!!!