Thread: Full Moon....A Few Gills

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

I have certain lakes I don’t fish, folks ask me “Why”. I will forgo any fish to catch big Gills.....around here that means 9 inches and over. There are several lakes that do not produce big Gills that are reasonably close to me. Old Hickory.....tons of bluegill but no size. Normandy lake.....no size. Woods Reservoir......no size to them. When you look at these lakes you just have to ask yourself why? Old Hickory should be producing very big bluegill but it does not and you look at it and try to see what is different about it than say Pickwick.....KY Lake.....Nickajack. The only reason I can see is Old Hickory is on the Cumberland River system and the water is much colder. Yet if I use water temps as the reason I look at the bluegill I catch out of the Caney Fork River......a trout stream with constant temps of around 50-52 degrees. While it does not regularly produce 9 inch Gills it does produce 7-8 inch Gills that have a larger girth and are fat...heavy for their length. Makes no sense to me.

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I wonder if the size or lack of in a body of water which share similar traits to a body of water that does produce larger fish could possibly be the genetic composition of the breeding parents as a logical excuse or reason?

Most species the parents genetics have a distinctive influence on size and why would that be different talking about fish? Sure environment and food sources and amounts factor in as well but I am sure that genetics play a role as well.

Around here the Bream always have a stomach less than half Full of something that is always Black -- No Insects or anything that can be Identified.. which makes me believe that the Diet is mostly Plankton -- the pictures showed Green Bream that are always smaller