I took my small boat to the city lake this morning to catch some gills. This is the first time I have had a boat on the lake and since it is not on my Navionics chip I did some driving around for a while, to get a better idea of how of the bottom laid out. After driving around it and a few zigzags it was time to fish.
Right off the bat the 6-7 inch gills were on a tear, as I could hardly keep a line in the water. Shortly after it was almost nothing but 7” gills, I lost count after 22 but would guess I caught 45-50 in three hours. The first two pictures are 7” and the third is an 8” gill.
Those Thill slip bobbers I use are very versatile with a 64th oz jig the bobber will lay on its side but when I put another 64th oz split shot it will still stay on its side but if a gill breaths on it I know that it has the jig in his mouth, this is the setup I like when they are finicky. But today was not the case they were very aggressive I was using 2 64th ounce split shot and the jig which puts the bottom of the yellow strip even with the water surface, and makes a straighter line between the jig and my rod tip for a very quick hook set. As you can see by most of the pictures I post the jig is almost always still sticking out of the gills mouth which makes it faster for me to get it out and my line back into the water. Another thing I do to speed thing up for me is to cut my crawler into 6 or 8 pieces when I take it out of the worm box. I will go into more detail soon about I handle my crawlers to keep things cleaner and faster.
Those Thill bobbers are 6 1/2 inches long so it is not hard to measure them… 
