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When an eight-inch bluegill is a good one, as is the norm now on public lakes across the southeast, it's well beyond the point of need - it's to the point that if something isn't done soon, there...

Just my personal opinion, but I don't buy that a majority of anglers wouldn't accept limits on bluegill. Certainly there are people who think they're not bluegill fishing unless they can take the...

Public lakes in the South are a lost cause until DNRs decide to come into the 21st century with their regulations. Several northern states have enacted stricter harvest regulations on bluegill based...

This pond and the other pond I posted photos from a couple days ago both have feeding programs. The feeding alone, however, doesn't produce bluegill this big - there are thousands upon thousands of...

Unfortunately, the angler who caught it (a neighbor of the landowner) did not weigh it. I would estimate well over two pounds at a minimum.

So a few minutes ago I got a text from a landowner with a fish photo. This was caught this past week from a seven-acre pond we manage in west Tennessee. This pond was stocked as a new pond in March...

Thanks, guys! The landowner is so excited that he's already contacted TWRA to get instructions on exactly what needs to be done if a three-pound-one-ouncer is caught. That big one was unreal - the...

I think it could be, Stan! It's a pretty special pond.

I took a couple from San Antonio out yesterday and today for guided bluegill fishing. My high-dollar scale was not working yesterday, so we didn’t get weights, but we had a male northern that...

They were pretty happy, Skeet. The guy who caught the big northern female said hours before that fish that the first fifteen minutes of fishing made the seven-hour drive from northern Indiana worth...

Thanks for the love, guys! D10, we do manage a few ponds in Arkansas. We electrofished a 60-acre lake about 40 miles from Memphis a couple weeks ago. We also manage a couple ponds in the...

I took out two guys from Indiana yesterday in search of giant bluegill. They caught six that measured 11" or better. My high-dollar water-resistant bench scale crapped out after a minor boat spill...

The third and fourth fish from the top are both hybrid bluegill. The fourth fish from the bottom is all coppernose.

That's a toad, Sonny, congrats!

Do you know anything about a bluegill just under four pounds being caught in the last couple of years from Perris? I saw somewhere online that the lake record was...

Regarding the question of how many times bluegill spawn per year, there was a study done in Texas years ago (Estes 1949) that found that some percentage of the bluegill population in every lake they...

The fourth fish from the bottom is a coppernose. Not sure if that's the one you're referring to as a 10"; I do see a couple hybrid bluegill but that one is definitely a coppernose.

That's an amazing female, Sonny! Congrats!

I did look at the measuring tape. If you look closely, the furthermost part of the chewed-off carcass goes to around or just shy of the 10" mark. Then if you look at the other end of the fish, the...

So I got a couple text messages yesterday from the owner of a 1.1-acre pond I have managed since June 2014. Last year this pond produced two bluegill over two pounds; a couple weeks ago I took my...

We stock shellcracker all the time. We have a stock of Florida redear, from ones I caught on the St. Johns a couple years ago, in a small pond, but haven't checked lately to see how they're doing. ...

I took my mom fishing Friday. The pond we fished is one I manage; it produced two bluegill over two pounds last year, one of which was a coppernose caught by a client. (I wasn’t there when the other...

Hi Hoosier. We're about 170 miles from you, so not too far.

Thanks, all! I'm slightly bummed that we didn't get a weight on the biggest four or five. I just completely spaced on not having the scale with me until we were at the pond, and then from that...

Yesterday we moved fourteen coppernose from a pond that was part of my guide service but which is on a property that's now for sale, to a pond on another property. My bench scale was in a truck...

I'm posting below a couple photos of coppernose that were stocked at 6" in a half-acre pond about ten miles from Columbia in spring 2014. These photos are from May 2015, one year after the...

They need to have fishmeal as the primary ingredient; the other key is to have a high protein content, at least 40% and preferably higher.

But feeding is only one piece of the puzzle.

I wrote the article in question, and it was written from a lot more experience with coppernose than the other people in this discussion have. I can take you to a four-acre pond that has nothing but...

Here's one I caught today:

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Come on anytime, Stan!

I have worked with hybrid bluegill in the past, Sonny, and have done some reading on them as well. Believe it or not, even northern-strain bluegill outgrow them, significantly, after the first...