Last Saturday morning was “Mission Crappie”. This morning I spent my morning in pursuit of bluegills.
I was off to a rough start when my first spot that normally produces this time of year only kicked out a few smaller bluegills. When I say smaller bluegills on Wissota, I’m not talking the silver dollar variety. There is a good run on size, but smaller means the six inch variety.
Admittedly, I gave up on my mission. I told myself I would go back and strap on the comfortable “walleye shoes”.
I bought an off-chance bluegill lottery ticket and proceeded to pitch a Yellow River shoreline for ‘eyes. I wasn’t able to spend much time on my pitching because I was about to cash in my bluegill lottery ticket. Noisy drag and bent UL ended with an 8″ gill.
What a pleasant surprise. Now “Mission Bluegill” was back on! 
I worked over this shallow 2 FOW shoreline pocket for 30 minutes pulling out a nice size run of bluegills. The biggest is the one pictured that hit the tape real close to 9″.
The tables turned when I started to catch smallie after smallie. My guess is the smallies ran the gills out of town.
I chose a few for a shore lunch and discovered nearly all the gills were spawned out.
If you get out there this weekend and want to chase the gills, target the real shallow water (3 FOW or less) and have mental comfort you are not disturbing spawning fish.
Good luck!
Sully
