New PB Bluegill

  • Jerry Hochhausen
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Posts: 275
    August 29, 2010 at 2:40 pm #1311891

    Went out yesterday on Lake Mendota in Madison. I was fishing weed edges with nightcrawlers and caught two nice bluegills. One 9 1/2″ and the other was 10 inches my new personal best bluegill. The bite was slow. I also got a bunch of little smallmouths and some sheepheads.

    blue-fleck
    Dresbach, MN
    Posts: 7872
    August 29, 2010 at 2:43 pm #896334

    Awesome Bluegill! It takes a special Bluegill to hit 10″ and it looks like you found one. Congrats on your personal best!!

    Jesse Krook
    Y.M.H.
    Posts: 6403
    August 29, 2010 at 2:44 pm #896335

    Nice job on the BULL-GILLS, congrats

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    August 29, 2010 at 2:59 pm #896336

    Great job and congrats on the bruiser gills

    Them dinner plates can really swim a vicious circle

    When the boats use to load up at Govn. Island for the perch we would stay out of the crowd for them bruiser gill that lake supports. Crickets were a killer for us that time of year.

    jerrj01
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 1547
    August 29, 2010 at 3:44 pm #896342

    Nice fish.

    Brian Robinson
    central Neb
    Posts: 3914
    August 29, 2010 at 4:43 pm #896352

    I’m really hoping to get one of those myself this year. Nice work!

    mikehd
    Dousman, WI
    Posts: 965
    August 29, 2010 at 6:06 pm #896357

    Nice Gill.

    tony_apisa
    E. Moline Illinois along the Rock River
    Posts: 1180
    August 29, 2010 at 7:17 pm #896360

    Those are some beauties.

    Mudshark
    LaCrosse WI
    Posts: 2973
    August 29, 2010 at 7:31 pm #896363

    It just doesn’t get any better than that!!

    Gills like that are HARD to come by…..

    Great fish dude

    Richard V.
    Somewhere over the rainbow
    Posts: 2596
    August 29, 2010 at 8:27 pm #896367

    Congratulations
    on the PB Bluegill, that 10″ mark has eluded me for too long. At least someone else it hitting it.

    Jerry Hochhausen
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Posts: 275
    August 29, 2010 at 9:04 pm #896371

    Quote:

    Crickets were a killer for us that time of year.

    Thanks for the tip about the crickets Bret. I’ll have to try them.

    Thanks everybody for the nice comments. It’s really fun catching those big gills. I’ve never caught a bluegill under 8″ in Lake Mendota. It’s pretty amazing. Last year My wife and I were out trolling small crankbaits for white bass and she hooked one of these nice big gills. I couldn’t believe it.

    Bobby5
    Posts: 34
    August 29, 2010 at 9:23 pm #896376

    Nice fish Jerry. I bet they put up a good fight too.

    wade_kuehl
    Northwest Iowa
    Posts: 6167
    August 30, 2010 at 4:43 am #896432

    Congrats! She sure is a pretty fish. I miss fishing gills. Reminds me that I might need to get back to some of the simpler things in life.

    Thanks for the post!

    bosman
    DeSoto, WI
    Posts: 914
    August 30, 2010 at 12:29 pm #896461

    Great Fish! Congrats

    average-joe
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 2376
    September 3, 2010 at 11:12 pm #897434

    Quote:

    Great Fish! Congrats

    X2

    BoatFever
    Madison, WI
    Posts: 6
    November 30, 2010 at 5:04 pm #913405

    Oh yea! Mendota holds some monster bluegill. If you get in the right spot, I’ve had days where most of the gills caught were over 10″. Some were pushing 11″.

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13651
    January 2, 2011 at 4:58 am #921734

    Better late than never… Nice gills! Mendota has some monster gills. Milemark_714 and I use to hit that lake for years. Put many 11″ gills in the boat and on the ice there. I have a video of what would have been a state record I caught there in ’93. Never thought about a 13″+ gill being that big until after I ate it and everyone freaked out on watching the video.

    Mudshark
    LaCrosse WI
    Posts: 2973
    January 2, 2011 at 7:15 pm #921813

    Quote:

    Never thought about a 13″+ gill being that big until after I ate it and everyone freaked out on watching the video.

    Something like filleting a 17 1/2″ Crappie?

    I measured it… thought ,should I mount it?….and put the knife to her…..
    I STILL regret that decision to this day

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