Big Panny

  • Sartell Eye Guy
    Sartell, MN
    Posts: 624
    May 25, 2007 at 4:46 pm #1311700

    I’m not a panfish guy at all but this thing just amazed me.

    The fish was caught on private lake in central MN. It’s around 14″. Caught last weekend and yes it was released

    hof
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 2443
    May 25, 2007 at 5:15 pm #575005

    WOW! That’s an amazing bluegill, especially from MN! May have been a state record?

    Sartell Eye Guy
    Sartell, MN
    Posts: 624
    May 25, 2007 at 5:18 pm #575008

    Don’t think it would have counted as a state record because it was caught on a private 9 acre lake. Don’t know for sure how that works…

    dan-larson
    Cedar, Min-E-So-Ta
    Posts: 1482
    May 25, 2007 at 5:46 pm #575018

    Any body of water public or private within the state is viable for state records. The one thing to consider however is the fact that the DNR will publish the name of the lake. When I was working up at Trail’s End we had a regular that would come in and say that he had caught several walleye from a certain lake out by Clearwater that would have broken the state record, he never registered them because he didn’t want the secret to get out. He said it was only a two or three week window in the fall when they were caught, same spot every year. Of course we all thought he was a BS artist, then one day he came in bought a dozen large suckers and said he was headed to that lake, that spot, and he would come by with his digital if he caught any. Well he came back the next day, a Sunday with the pictures, all I could say was wow, I don’t know if any of the fish would have truly weighed enough to beat the record, but by the measurements he gave us for the three he had picks of it might have been close.

    Anyway, if I had a lake that kicked out gils like that, I would never tell anyone about it.

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    May 25, 2007 at 10:24 pm #575076

    In 1975 I caught a 14″ er like that in early spring…very dark purple in color too.
    I didn’t release her…Now I would.

    That probably went over a pound for sure!

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    May 26, 2007 at 1:09 am #575090

    That is one beefy lookin’ gill

    Is that a high bread by chance? On pool 8 when they are hitting the 10+ inch mark ther heads start to out grow there face is the only reason I ask if it is a high bread.

    Non the less…that is one bull

    bill_cadwell
    Rochester, Minnesota
    Posts: 12607
    May 26, 2007 at 6:29 pm #575215

    VERY huge gill. A trophy size for sure. Very rare.
    Thanks, Bill

    sandbergky
    Buffalo MN
    Posts: 93
    May 30, 2007 at 12:26 am #575996

    Whad’ch ya chatch it on?

    Nice fish.

    dylan_w.
    La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 399
    May 30, 2007 at 12:02 pm #576103

    very nice gill!!!!

    Sartell Eye Guy
    Sartell, MN
    Posts: 624
    May 30, 2007 at 12:05 pm #576104

    I didn’t catch it so I don’t know what it was caught on. My fishing partner sent me the picture. Adam

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