Thread: Full Moon....A Few Gills

Nice.

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I hope to do good today, with the gills, thanks for post and pics.

Good to see some showing up in numbers. Even the small ones can make for a fun evening of fishing. Got a spot I hope I can get to in the next couple evenings if all the rain here in East NC don't have it to muddy. Nice rod & reel setup you got there too.

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Looks like a lot of fun!

Good outing.
That’s the class of Gil’s we have here. Seems everything is that’ size and when you get into “good” size gills, that means ones 7.5-8”
Like 8.5” being nice one



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Nice day of Gillin. Those gills look like they’re stunted. Does anyone ever keep some to thin out the herd. Maybe shift some over to that bass pond you started at.

Its weird, these are feeder creeks to Cherokee Lake, a large reservoir here in E TN. I have caught 8-9+inch Gills from the creek closest to the house, where the bass were earlier in the week, but when I go fish this particular creek that is only about 3 miles away by road I hardly ever catch anything over 8in. Deep, shallow, Winter, Summer they always run on the small side in this area. Have fished these areas for years, caught literal bucket fulls out of each creek mouth but have just concluded over the years that one creek is better than the other..size wise. The only factor I see of any difference is the proximity to the Main Channel. I catch the bigger fish in the creek that is closer to the Main Channel. The lake in general has an overall good population, size and numbers, just certain areas tend to hold bigger fish, at least for me.

Originally Posted by StantheMan2567

Its weird, these are feeder creeks to Cherokee Lake, a large reservoir here in E TN. I have caught 8-9+inch Gills from the creek closest to the house, where the bass were earlier in the week, but when I go fish this particular creek that is only about 3 miles away by road I hardly ever catch anything over 8in. Deep, shallow, Winter, Summer they always run on the small side in this area. Have fished these areas for years, caught literal bucket fulls out of each creek mouth but have just concluded over the years that one creek is better than the other..size wise. The only factor I see of any difference is the proximity to the Main Channel. I catch the bigger fish in the creek that is closer to the Main Channel. The lake in general has an overall good population, size and numbers, just certain areas tend to hold bigger fish, at least for me.

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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